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Sep 10, 2012 (SPX)

Physicists at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences have achieved quantum teleportation over a record distance of 143 km. The experiment...

ESA observatory breaks world quantum teleportation record

Sep 07, 2012 (ESA)

An international research team using ESA's Optical Ground Station in the Canary Islands has set a new distance world record in 'quantum teleportation' by reprod...

Crews complete first block of North America's most advanced neutrino experiment

Sep 07, 2012 (SPX)

Today, technicians in Minnesota will begin to position the first block of a detector that will be part of the largest, most advanced neutrino experiment in Nort...

The quantum world only partially melts

Sep 07, 2012 (SPX)

Every day we observe systems thermalizing: Ice cubes in a pot of hot water will melt and will never remain stable. The molecules of the ice and the molecules of...

Seeing the Birth of the Universe in an Atom of Hydrogen

Sep 06, 2012 (SPX)

Windows to the past, stars can unveil the history of our universe, currently estimated to be 14 billion years old. The farther away the star, the older it is - ...

NASA's WISE Survey Uncovers Millions of Black Holes

Sep 04, 2012 (JPL)

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has led to a bonanza of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs, or dus...

Imprisoned molecules 'quantum rattle' in their cages

Aug 23, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists have discovered that a space inside a special type of carbon molecule can be used to imprison other smaller molecules such as hydrogen or water. The ...

WiggleZ confirms the Big Picture of the Universe

Aug 23, 2012 (SPX)

We know that stars group together to form galaxies, galaxies clump to make clusters and clusters gather to create structures known as superclusters. At what sca...

Big Bang theory challenged by big chill

Aug 22, 2012 (SPX)

The start of the Universe should be modeled not as a Big Bang but more like water freezing into ice, according to a team of theoretical physicists at the Univer...

Scientists: Think Big Chill, not Big Bang

Aug 20, 2012 (UPI)

A Big Freeze rather than a Big Bang may be how the universe began, theoretical physicists in Australia say, and they're looking for evidence of it. Researchers ...

Freezing magnetic monopoles

Aug 17, 2012 (SPX)

Magnetic monopoles, entities with isolated north or south magnetic poles, weren't supposed to exist. If you try to saw a bar magnet in half, all you succeed in ...

Stabilizing shell effects in heaviest elements directly measured

Aug 17, 2012 (SPX)

An international research team has succeeded in directly measuring the strength of shell effects in very heavy elements. The results provide information on the ...

Closing in on the Border Between Primordial Plasma and Ordinary Matter

Aug 15, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists taking advantage of the versatility and new capabilities of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an atom smasher at the U.S. Department of Ene...

LHC experiments bring new insight

Aug 15, 2012 (SPX)

Experiments using heavy ions at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are advancing understanding of the primordial universe. The ALICE, ATLAS and CMS collaboratio...

The First Public Data Release from BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Aug 09, 2012 (SPX)

The Third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) has issued Data Release 9 (DR9), the first public release of data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey...

Researchers gain information advantage from surprising quantum source

Aug 09, 2012 (SPX)

New research lends hope that a phenomenon called quantum discord could be harnessed to bring quantum technologies within easier reach than expected. The work, b...

New 3D Map of Massive Galaxies and Black Holes Offers Clues to Dark Matter, Dark Energy

Aug 09, 2012 (SPX)

Astronomers have constructed the largest-ever three-dimensional map of massive galaxies and distant black holes, which will help the investigation of the myster...

Dartmouth Theoretical Physicists Probe the Majorana Mystery

Aug 09, 2012 (SPX)

With headlines proclaiming the discovery of the Higgs boson-the so-called God particle-particle physics has captured the imagination of the world, particularly ...

Electromagnetic 'swamps' don't always bog electrons down

Aug 06, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists have designed a simple system to study how electrons travel through energy barriers instead of over them. This unusual behavior, called tunneling, is...

'Cry' of a Shredded Star Heralds a New Era for Testing Relativity

Aug 06, 2012 (SPX)

Last year, astronomers discovered a quiescent black hole in a distant galaxy that erupted after shredding and consuming a passing star. Now researchers have ide...