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Scientists produce status check on quantum teleportation

Oct 05, 2015 (SPX)

Mention the word 'teleportation' and for many people it conjures up "Beam me up, Scottie" images of Captain James T Kirk. But in the last two decades quantum te...

New precise particle measurement improves subatomic tool

Oct 01, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, have achieved a new precise measurement of a key subatomic particle, opening the door to better understandi...

Too big for its boots: black hole is 30 times expected size

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

The central supermassive black hole of a recently discovered galaxy is far larger than should be possible, according to current theories of galactic evolution. ...

New method to better understand atomic nuclei

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

The precise structure of atomic nuclei is an old problem that has not been fully solved yet, and it also constitutes a current research focus in the field of na...

Milky Way's Black Hole Shows Signs of Increased Chatter

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

Three orbiting X-ray space telescopes have detected an increased rate of X-ray flares from the usually quiet giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way gal...

Twisting neutrons

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

It's easy to contemplate the wave nature of light in common experience. White light passing through a prism spreads out into constituent colors; it diffracts fr...

11-Year Cosmic Search Leads to Black Hole Rethink

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

One hundred years since Einstein proposed gravitational waves as part of his general theory of relativity, an 11-year search performed with CSIRO's Parkes teles...

Launch of India's first black hole space observation satellite

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers from the University of Leicester have been involved in the development of the first ever Indian satellite dedicated to astronomical observations, in...

Astronomers Identify a New Mid-size Black Hole

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

Nearly all black holes come in one of two sizes: stellar mass black holes that weigh up to a few dozen times the mass of our sun or supermassive black holes ran...

A new study predicts a quantum Goldilocks effect

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

Just as in the well-known children's story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, something good happens when things are done in moderation, rather than in extremes...

New theory of stealth dark matter may explain universe's missing mass

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

Lawrence Livermore scientists have come up with a new theory that may identify why dark matter has evaded direct detection in Earth-based experiments. A group o...

A twist for control of orbital angular momentum of neutron waves

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

An experiment by a team of researchers led from the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) shows, for the first time, that a wave proper...

NIST team breaks distance record for quantum teleportation

Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have "teleported" or transferred quantum information carried in light particles over 10...

Characterizing the forces that hold everything together

Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)

As electronic, medical and molecular-level biological devices grow smaller and smaller, approaching the nanometer scale, the chemical engineers and materials sc...

Experiment confirms fundamental symmetry in nature

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists working with ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment), a heavy-ion detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ring, have made precise measurements of...

UCLA physicists determine 3-D positions of individual atoms for the first time

Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)

Atoms are the building blocks of all matter on Earth, and the patterns in which they are arranged dictate how strong, conductive or flexible a material will be....

Researchers propose new way to chart the cosmos in 3-D

Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)

If only calculating the distance between Earth and far-off galaxies was as easy as pulling out the old measuring tape. Now UBC researchers are proposing a new w...

Supermassive black hole pairs may be rarer than previously thought

Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)

There may be fewer pairs of supermassive black holes orbiting each other at the cores of giant galaxies than previously thought, according to a new study by ast...

Astronomers identify a new mid-size black hole

Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)

Nearly all black holes come in one of two sizes: stellar mass black holes that weigh up to a few dozen times the mass of our sun or supermassive black holes ran...

A quantum lab for everyone

Sep 17, 2015 (SPX)

Topical research experiments are often too expensive or too complex to be rebuilt and incorporated in teaching. How can one, nevertheless, make modern science a...