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Study develops a model enhancing particle beam efficiency

Jun 22, 2018 (SPX)

Whatever the use, controlling chaos and boosting particle flow efficiency are the goals of the scientific community in this field. A paper describing a new cont...

Discovery for grouping atoms invokes Pasteur

Jun 22, 2018 (SPX)

Discoveries of new ways to make isomers - molecules made of the same atoms connected together differently - were last reported in 1961 and before then in 1914. ...

With supercomputing power, scientists solve a next-generation physics problem

Jun 22, 2018 (SPX)

Led by Andre Walker-Loud of the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the project also used computing resources at DOE's Lawr...

Researchers Find Last of the Universe's Missing Ordinary Matter

Jun 21, 2018 (SPX)

Ordinary matter, or "baryons," make up all physical objects in existence, from stars to the cores of black holes. But until now, astrophysicists had only been a...

When photons spice up the energy levels of quantum particles

Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)

Since their introduction by Erwin Schrodinger in 1926, coherent states of particles have found many applications in mathematical physics and quantum optics. Now...

UNH researcher captures best ever evidence of rare black hole

Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)

New research coming out of the Space Science Center at the University of New Hampshire shows the strongest evidence to date that this middle-of-the-road black h...

Star shredded by rare breed of black hole

Jun 19, 2018 (ESA)

There are various types of black hole lurking throughout the Universe: massive stars create stellar-mass black holes when they die, while galaxies host supermas...

Quantum transfer at the push of a button

Jun 19, 2018 (SPX)

A reliable exchange of data is also of great importance for the new quantum information technologies that are currently being developed - but at the same time i...

Evidence for a new property of quantum matter revealed

Jun 19, 2018 (SPX)

The team proved that a particular quantum material can demonstrate electrical dipole fluctuations - irregular oscillations of tiny charged poles on the material...

Turning entanglement upside down

Jun 19, 2018 (SPX)

Even when the particles are separated by a large distance, changes in one particle also instantaneously affect the other particle(s). The entanglement of indivi...

Astronomers see distant eruption as black hole destroys star

Jun 18, 2018 (JPL)

The scientists tracked the event with radio and infrared telescopes, including the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and NASA's Spit...

Study offers best evidence yet of an intermediate-mass black hole

Jun 18, 2018 (UPI)

Astronomers finally caught the elusive object devouring a star that drifted too close. Researchers imaged the consumption event using three different X-ray obse...

Delft scientists make first 'on demand' entanglement link

Jun 18, 2018 (SPX)

Via a novel smart entanglement protocol and careful protection of the entanglement, the scientists led by Prof. Ronald Hanson are the first in the world to deli...

Supercomputers provide new window into the life and death of a neutron

Jun 18, 2018 (SPX)

Now, a team led by scientists in the Nuclear Science Division at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has enlisted po...

Wormhole Echoes That May Revolutionize Astrophysics

Jun 13, 2018 (SPX)

But there is a problem with black holes: they present an edge, called an event horizon, from which matter, radiation or anything that enters can no longer escap...

Transferring quantum information using sound

Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)

A team of researchers from TU Wien and Harvard University has found a new way to transfer the necessary quantum information. They propose using tiny mechanical ...

Electrons take one step forward without two steps back

Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)

It is not a stretch to say that life depends on strictly regulated electron transfer. Electron transfer is among the most fundamental processes for sustaining l...

Microsemi Announces New Chip Scale Atomic Clock for Space

Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)

As the newest member of Microsemi's CSAC product family, the Commercial Space CSAC provides excellent drift performance and built-in 1 pulse per second (PPS) in...

Direct coupling of the Higgs boson to the top quark observed

Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)

The discovery confirmed the existence of the last missing elementary particle of the Standard Model, half a century after the Higgs boson was predicted theoreti...

One-way roads for spin currents

Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)

Through years of research, scientists have learned how to control such spin currents in an analogous way such that they can control the flow of electrons, a fie...