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UCSB physicists make strides in understanding quantum entanglement
Dec 17, 2012 (SPX)
While some theoretical physicists make predictions about astrophysics and the behavior of stars and galaxies, others work in the realm of the very small, which ...
12 Matter Particles Suffice in Nature
Dec 14, 2012 (SPX)
How many matter particles exist in nature? Particle physicists have been dealing with this question for a long time. The 12 matter particles contained in the st...
New knowledge about the remarkable properties of black holes
Dec 13, 2012 (SPX)
Black holes are surrounded by many mysteries, but now researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have come up with new groundbreaking theories tha...
Greedy black hole discovered in Andromeda
Dec 13, 2012 (ESA)
Studying the Andromeda galaxy with ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray space observatory, astronomers have discovered a new bright X-ray source that hosts a stellar-mass bla...
Point of Light
Dec 12, 2012 (SPX)
As technology advances, it tends to shrink. From cell phones to laptops-powered by increasingly faster and tinier processors-everything is getting thinner and s...
Do we live in a computer simulation? UW researchers say idea can be tested
Dec 12, 2012 (SPX)
A decade ago, a British philosopher put forth the notion that the universe we live in might in fact be a computer simulation run by our descendants. While that ...
A bridge to the quantum world: Dirac electrons found in unique material
Dec 07, 2012 (SPX)
In a discovery that helps clear a new path toward quantum computers, University of Michigan physicists have found elusive Dirac electrons in a superconducting m...
The dance of quantum tornadoes
Dec 07, 2012 (SPX)
Tornado-like vortexes can be produced in bizarre fluids which are controlled by quantum mechanics, completely unlike normal liquids. New research published in t...
Quantum thermodynamics
Dec 07, 2012 (SPX)
No man is an island, entire of itself, said poet John Donne. And no atom neither. Even in the middle of intergalactic space, atoms feel the electromagnetic fiel...
A Multi-Wavelength View of Radio Galaxy Hercules A
Dec 05, 2012 (SPX)
Spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a super massive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules A illustrate the combined imagi...
Steps towards filming atoms dancing
Dec 05, 2012 (SPX)
With their ultra short X-ray flashes, free-electron lasers offer the opportunity to film atoms in motion in complicated molecules and in the course of chemical ...
The Beginning of Everything: A New Paradigm Shift for the Infant Universe
Dec 04, 2012 (SPX)
A new paradigm for understanding the earliest eras in the history of the universe has been developed by scientists at Penn State University. Using techniques fr...
European research agencies create sustainable entity for astroparticle physics
Dec 04, 2012 (SPX)
European funding agencies for astroparticle physics have celebrated the successful work of the ASPERA European funded network and the launch of the newly founde...
Texas Astronomers Measure Most Massive, Most Unusual Black Hole
Dec 03, 2012 (SPX)
Astronomers have used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory to measure the mass of what may be the most massive...
NIST experiments challenge fundamental understanding of electromagnetism
Nov 30, 2012 (SPX)
A cornerstone of physics may require a rethink if findings at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are confirmed. Recent experiments sugges...
Biggest Black Hole Blast Discovered
Nov 30, 2012 (SPX)
Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered a quasar with the most energetic outflow ever seen, at least five times more powerful than an...
Galaxy-squatting black hole set for the record books
Nov 28, 2012 (AFP)
Astronomers on Wednesday said they had found possibly the biggest black hole ever observed, a leviathan with a mass 17 billion times that of the Sun, brooding a...
Scientists from Bangalore and Mainz develop new methods for cooling of ions
Nov 27, 2012 (SPX)
Among the most important techniques developed in atomic physics over the past few years are methods that enable the storage and cooling of atoms and ions at tem...
BaBar Experiment Confirms Time Asymmetry
Nov 20, 2012 (SPX)
Time marches relentlessly forward for you and me; watch a movie in reverse, and you'll quickly see something is amiss. But from the point of view of a single, i...
Black Holes and How to Use Them
Nov 18, 2012 (SPX)
A "black hole" is defined as a region of space where gravity is so great that it prevents anything, including light, from escaping. Einstein's theory of general...
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