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Giant Planet Forms in Ring of Dust around Young Star

An international team led by Sascha Quanz (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) has studied the disc of gas and dust that surrounds the young star HD 100546, a relatively nearby neighbour located 335 light-years from Earth. They were surprised to find what seems to be a planet in the process of being formed, still embedded in the disc of material around the young star. The candidate planet would be a gas giant similar to Jupiter.

1 Mar 2013

Critical Prebiotic Molecules Discovered in Interstellar Space

Using new technology at the telescope and in laboratories, researchers have discovered an important pair of prebiotic molecules in interstellar space. The discoveries indicate that some basic chemicals that are key steps on the way to life may have formed on dusty ice grains floating between the stars.

1 Mar 2013

Quantum Properties Become Invisible When Ultra Cold Bose-Einstein Condensates Tend Towards Equilibrium State

Order tends towards disorder. This is also true for quantum states. Measurements at the Vienna University of Technology show that in quantum mechanics this transition can be quite different from what we experience in our daily lives.

1 Mar 2013

UCLA Sponsors Workshop on the Higgs Boson

David Cline, a distinguished professor in the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Xiaoping Ding, an assistant researcher at UCLA, have conducted research at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and have established that an electron beam can be accelerated by a laser in free space.

1 Mar 2013

Pulsar’s LAT Data Transformed into a Mesmerizing Movie

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits our planet every 95 minutes, building up increasingly deeper views of the universe with every circuit. Its wide-eyed Large Area Telescope (LAT) sweeps across the entire sky every three hours, capturing the highest-energy form of light -- gamma rays -- from sources across the universe.

1 Mar 2013

NSERC Awards E.W.R Steacie Fellowship to IQC Quantum Researcher

Professor Kevin Resch is an experimental physicist working in quantum information science, in particular the development of quantum sources of light and interferometric sensors.

28 Feb 2013

Robotic Telescope Helps Spot White Dwarf Supernovae

Light from two massive stars that exploded hundreds of millions of years ago recently reached Earth, and each event was identified as a supernova.

28 Feb 2013

U of T Quantum Researchers Win NSERC Awards

University of Toronto researchers won or shared honours in six of eight prize categories in this year’s awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), presented today in Ottawa.

28 Feb 2013

Astronomers Measure Super-Fast Spin of Supermassive Black Hole

Imagine a sphere more than 2 million miles across - eight times the distance from Earth to the Moon - spinning so fast that its surface is traveling at nearly the speed of light. Such an object exists: the supermassive black hole at the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 1365.

28 Feb 2013

Superconducting Quantum-Interference Devices Help Extract Microwave Photons out of Vacuum's Quantum Noise

The researchers conducted a mirror experiment to show that by changing the position of the mirror in a vacuum, virtual particles can be transformed into real photons that can be experimentally observed. In a vacuum, there is energy and noise, the existence of which follows the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics.

27 Feb 2013

APS Names CQT Quantum Researcher as ‘Outstanding Referee’

CQT Research Fellow Martin Kiffner has been named an "Outstanding Referee" by the American Physical Society (APS). Starting in 2008, the society has given the award to scientists who have been "exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication".

27 Feb 2013

Holes in Quantum Dots Make Better Spin Qubits for Quantum Computers

Recent research offers a new spin on using nanoscale semiconductor structures to build faster computers and electronics. Literally.

27 Feb 2013

Planets with Life May be Detected near Dying White Dwarf Stars

Even dying stars could host planets with life - and if such life exists, we might be able to detect it within the next decade. This encouraging result comes from a new theoretical study of Earth-like planets orbiting white dwarf stars. Researchers found that we could detect oxygen in the atmosphere of a white dwarf's planet much more easily than for an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star.

26 Feb 2013

Berkeley Lab’s Crystal Growth Facility Can Produce New Quantum Materials

Talk with material scientist Edith Bourret-Courchesne about what it takes to grow and develop useful crystals and a word you will hear repeated often is “patience.” As the leader of a unique crystal growth facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) dedicated to the synthesis of crystals and new materials, patience is more than a virtue, it’s a necessity.

26 Feb 2013

Global Experts Gather at UT Dallas for Symposium on Novel Topological Quantum Matter

For most people, the technical aspects of quantum physics – the behavior of matter and energy on scales as small as an atom or an electron – are enough to make their eyes glaze over.

26 Feb 2013

Quantum Science News

Giant Planet Forms in Ring of Dust around Young Star

Critical Prebiotic Molecules Discovered in Interstellar Space

Quantum Properties Become Invisible When Ultra Cold Bose-Einstein Condensates Tend Towards Equilibrium State

UCLA Sponsors Workshop on the Higgs Boson

Pulsar’s LAT Data Transformed into a Mesmerizing Movie

NSERC Awards E.W.R Steacie Fellowship to IQC Quantum Researcher

Robotic Telescope Helps Spot White Dwarf Supernovae

U of T Quantum Researchers Win NSERC Awards

Astronomers Measure Super-Fast Spin of Supermassive Black Hole

Superconducting Quantum-Interference Devices Help Extract Microwave Photons out of Vacuum's Quantum Noise

APS Names CQT Quantum Researcher as ‘Outstanding Referee’

Holes in Quantum Dots Make Better Spin Qubits for Quantum Computers

Planets with Life May be Detected near Dying White Dwarf Stars

Berkeley Lab’s Crystal Growth Facility Can Produce New Quantum Materials

Global Experts Gather at UT Dallas for Symposium on Novel Topological Quantum Matter

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