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Experiment provides route to macroscopic high-mass superpositions
Oct 27, 2014 (SPX)
University of Southampton scientists have designed a new experiment to test the foundations of quantum mechanics at the large scale. Standard quantum theory pla...
Lucky Star Escapes Black Hole With Minor Damage
Oct 27, 2014 (SPX)
Astronomers have gotten the closest look yet at what happens when a black hole takes a bite out of a star-and the star lives to tell the tale. We may think of b...
New window on the early universe
Oct 24, 2014 (SPX)
Using two world-class supercomputers, the researchers were able to demonstrate the effectiveness of their approach by simulating the formation of a massive gala...
Cooling with molecules
Oct 24, 2014 (SPX)
An international team of scientists have become the first ever researchers to successfully reach temperatures below minus 272.15 degrees Celsius - only just abo...
Big Black Holes Can Block New Stars
Oct 23, 2014 (SPX)
Massive black holes spewing out radio-frequency-emitting particles at near-light speed can block formation of new stars in aging galaxies, a study has found. Th...
POLARBEAR detects B-modes in the cosmic microwave background
Oct 23, 2014 (SPX)
Cosmologists have made the most sensitive and precise measurements yet of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. The report, published in the Astr...
POLARBEAR seeks cosmic answers in microwave polarization
Oct 23, 2014 (SPX)
An international team of physicists has measured a subtle characteristic in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation that will allow them t...
1980s aircraft helps quantum technology take flight
Oct 21, 2014 (SPX)
What does a 1980s experimental aircraft have to do with state-of-the art quantum technology? Lots, as shown by new research from the Quantum Control Laboratory ...
Seeking 'absolute zero', copper cube gets chillingly close
Oct 21, 2014 (AFP)
An Italian lab has cooled a cubic metre of copper to within a tiny fraction of "absolute zero", setting a world record, the National Nuclear Physics Institute s...
Probing the past
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have made what may be the most reliable distance measurement yet of an object that existed in the Universe...
New light on the 'split peak' of alcohols
Oct 17, 2014 (SPX)
For scientists probing the electronic structure of materials using a relatively new technique called resonant inelastic soft X-ray scattering (RIXS) in the last...
Rare 'baby rattle' molecules reveal new quantum properties of H2O and H2
Oct 15, 2014 (SPX)
The experiments were carried out on endofullerenes, molecules of C60 into which smaller molecules of Hydrogen (H2) had been inserted. The results, published in ...
Getting sharp images from dull detectors
Oct 14, 2014 (SPX)
Observing the quantum behavior of light is a big part of Alan Migdall's research at the Joint Quantum Institute. Many of his experiments depend on observing lig...
New subatomic particle sheds light on fundamental force of nature
Oct 10, 2014 (SPX)
The discovery of a new particle will "transform our understanding" of the fundamental force of nature that binds the nuclei of atoms, researchers argue. Led by ...
Hungry black hole eats faster than thought possible
Oct 10, 2014 (SPX)
Astronomers have discovered a black hole that is consuming gas from a nearby star 10 times faster than previously thought possible. The black hole-known as P13-...
Failing was fun: Japan Nobel winner
Oct 10, 2014 (AFP)
The hundreds of experimental failures that paved the road to winning the Nobel Prize for physics was fun, rather than frustration, one of this year's three Japa...
A Quick Look at Electron-Boson Coupling
Oct 08, 2014 (SPX)
Imagine being able to tune the properties of a solid material just by flashing pulses of light on it, for example turning an insulator into a superconductor. Th...
Fundamentals of physics confirmed
Oct 08, 2014 (SPX)
To explore any possible limits of the two theories, they have been experimentally verified many times already and both have passed all the tests so far. Hence, ...
Novel approach to magnetic measurements atom-by-atom
Oct 03, 2014 (SPX)
Having the possibility to measure magnetic properties of materials at atomic precision is one of the important goals of today's experimental physics. Such measu...
Platinum meets its match in quantum dots from coal
Oct 03, 2014 (SPX)
Graphene quantum dots created at Rice University grab onto graphene platelets like barnacles attach themselves to the hull of a boat. But these dots enhance the...
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