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VLT detects unexpected giant halos around distant Quasars
Oct 31, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers has discovered glowing gas clouds surrounding distant quasars. This new survey by the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large T...
How often do quantum systems violate the second law of thermodynamics?
Oct 27, 2016 (SPX)
The likelihood of seeing quantum systems violating the second law of thermodynamics has been calculated by UCL scientists. In two papers, published in this week...
Argonne researchers posit way to locally circumvent Second Law of Thermodynamics
Oct 25, 2016 (SPX)
For more than a century and a half of physics, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that entropy always increases, has been as close to inviolable as ...
The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate or is it
Oct 25, 2016 (SPX)
Five years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three astronomers for their discovery, in the late 1990s, that the universe is expanding at an acceler...
Phonon and magnon are a couple
Oct 24, 2016 (SPX)
Professor Park Je-Geun, Associate Director of the Center for Correlated Electron Systems (CCES), within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), and colleagues ha...
Cosmological Mystery Solved by Map of Voids and Superclusters
Oct 24, 2016 (SPX)
A team of astrophysicists at the University of Portsmouth have created the largest ever map of voids and superclusters in the universe, which helps solve a long...
Did LIGO detect black holes or gravastars
Oct 21, 2016 (SPX)
After the first direct detection of gravitational waves that was announced last February by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and made news all over the world, ...
Finding the lightest superdeformed triaxial atomic nucleus
Oct 21, 2016 (SPX)
The nuclei of atoms of heavy elements do not necessarily take a spherical shape: they may be variously extended or flattened along one, two or even three axes. ...
Waterloo-led experiment achieves the strongest coupling between light and matter
Oct 21, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) recorded an interaction between light and matter 10 times larger than previous...
Compact graphene-based plasmon generator developed by physicists from MIPT
Oct 20, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from MIPT's Laboratory of 2D Materials' Optoelectronics, Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, and Tohoku University (Japan) have theoretic...
The 1950s: The decade in which gravity physics became experimental
Oct 20, 2016 (SPX)
In the 1950s and earlier, the gravity theory of Einstein's general relativity was largely a theoretical science. In a new paper published in EPJ H, Jim Peebles,...
Short mid-infrared pulses offer new tool for peering inside atoms and solids
Oct 20, 2016 (SPX)
A newly developed laser pulse synthesizer that generates femtosecond pulses at mid-infrared (IR) wavelengths promises to provide scientists with a better view o...
JILA's superradiant laser may one day boost atomic clocks
Oct 19, 2016 (SPX)
JILA physicists have demonstrated a novel laser design based on synchronized emissions of light from the same type of atoms used in advanced atomic clocks. The ...
Dense molecular gas disks drive the growth of supermassive black holes
Oct 18, 2016 (SPX)
Supermassive black holes more than a million times the mass of our sun exist at the centers of many galaxies, but how they came to be is unclear. Meanwhile, a c...
Two-dimensional spin-orbit coupling for Bose-Einstein condensates realized
Oct 17, 2016 (SPX)
Spin-orbit coupling is one of the fundamental effects in quantum physics. It plays a vital role in many basic physic phenomena and exotic quantum states. These ...
Observable Universe contains ten times more galaxies than previously thought
Oct 14, 2016 (ESA)
Astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescopes and other telescopes have performed an accurate census of the number of galaxies in the Univers...
Lights, action, electrons!
Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)
Ever since J.J. Thompson's 1897 discovery of the electron, scientists have attempted to describe the subatomic particle's motion using a variety of different me...
Teleporting toward a quantum Internet
Oct 14, 2016 (JPL)
Quantum physics is a field that appears to give scientists superpowers. Those who understand the world of extremely small or cold particles can perform amazing ...
'Weighing' atoms with electrons
Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)
The different elements found in nature each have their distinct isotopes. For carbon, there are 99 atoms of the lighter stable carbon isotope 12C for each 13C a...
Synchronizing optical clocks to one quadrillionth of a second
Oct 13, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of researchers, led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, has advanced their work...
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