TIME SPACE - SKY NIGHTLY

Berkeley Lab scientists read the cosmic writing on the wall

Mar 21, 2013 (SPX)

Thanks to a supersensitive space telescope and some sophisticated supercomputing, scientists from the international Planck collaboration have made the closest r...

New map of universe raises new questions

Mar 21, 2013 (UPI)

The most detailed map of the signature radiation the big bang ever created could challenge current understanding of the universe, European scientists say. The m...

Building the Massive Simulation Sets Essential to Planck Results

Mar 19, 2013 (SPX)

To make the most precise measurement yet of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) - the remnant radiation from the big bang - the European Space Agency's (ESA's...

Herschel gets to the bottom of black hole jets

Mar 14, 2013 (ESA)

Astronomers using ESA's Herschel space observatory have detected emission from the base of black-hole jets for the first time. While studying the black-hole bin...

Analysis brings Higgs confirmation closer

Mar 14, 2013 (UPI)

The new particle detected by the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland last summer is looking more and more like the long-sought Higgs boson, scientists report. ...

Early Universe bred 'starburst' mega-galaxies: study

Mar 13, 2013 (AFP)

In its exuberant childhood, the Universe created galaxies that were vast star-making machines, astronomers reported on Wednesday. Using a brand-new telescope in...

Fastest camera may film atomic motion

Mar 13, 2013 (UPI)

British researchers say they are working on a movie camera so fast it will be able to record processes taking place inside atoms and molecules. Scientists at th...

New NIST time code to boost reception for radio-controlled clocks

Mar 12, 2013 (SPX)

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is changing the way it broadcasts time signals that synchronize radio-controlled "atomic" clocks and w...

The dynamic of Spain's population follows the maximum entropy principle

Mar 12, 2013 (SPX)

A team of Spanish and Argentinean researchers have verified that the distribution of the inhabitants in each Spanish province evolves in accordance with the max...

How quantum physics democratised music

Mar 12, 2013 (SPX)

Surprising connections between very different areas of physics and unexpected spin-offs from theory were explored by quantum physicist Prof. Sir Michael Berry i...

Measuring the universe more accurately than ever before

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

Astronomers survey the scale of the Universe by first measuring the distances to close-by objects and then using them as standard candles [1] to pin down distan...

The future of ion traps

Mar 08, 2013 (SPX)

Recently Science Magazine invited JQI fellow Chris Monroe and Duke Professor Jungsang Kim to speculate on ion trap technology as a scalable option for quantum i...

Vortex loops could untie knotty physics problems

Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)

University of Chicago physicists have succeeded in creating a vortex knot-a feat akin to tying a smoke ring into a knot. Linked and knotted vortex loops have ex...

Playing quantum tricks with measurements

Mar 05, 2013 (SPX)

A team of physicists at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, performed an experiment that seems to contradict the foundations of quantum theory - at first glan...

Connecting the (quantum) dots

Mar 05, 2013 (SPX)

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

NuSTAR helps solve riddle of black hole spin

Mar 01, 2013 (SPX)

An international team including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists has definitively measured the spin rate of a supermassive black hole for the f...

Supermassive black hole spins super-fast

Feb 28, 2013 (SPX)

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 t...

Quantum algorithm breakthrough

Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)

The team implemented the 'phase estimation algorithm' - a central quantum algorithm which achieves an exponential speedup over all classical algorithms. It lies...

Journey to the Limits of Spacetime

Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)

Voracious absences at the center of galaxies, black holes shape the growth and death of the stars around them through their powerful gravitational pull and expl...

Search for 'unparticles' focuses on Earth's crust

Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)

Evidence of a minuscule force that could exist between two particle spins over long distances could be lurking in magnetized iron under the Earth's surface. Tha...