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Tesearchers provide new insights into quantum dynamics and quantum chaos

Apr 04, 2014 (SPX)

A team of researchers led by University of Notre Dame physicist Boldizsar Janko has announced analytical prediction and numerical verification of novel quantum ...

New Zealand physicists split and collide ultracold atom clouds

Apr 03, 2014 (SPX)

Physicists at New Zealand's University of Otago have pushed the frontiers of quantum technology by developing a steerable 'optical tweezers' unit that uses inte...

Black hole makes 'String of Pearls' clusters

Apr 03, 2014 (SPX)

Huge young star clusters resembling a string of pearls around a black hole in the centre of a galaxy 120 million light-years away have been discovered by resear...

Cosmic barometer' could reveal violent events in universe's past

Apr 01, 2014 (SPX)

Exploding stars, random impacts involving comets and meteorites, and even near misses between two bodies can create regions of great heat and high pressure. Res...

The Search for Seeds of Black Holes

Mar 31, 2014 (JPL)

How do you grow a supermassive black hole that is a million to a billion times the mass of our sun? Astronomers do not know the answer, but a new study using da...

Creating virtual universes

Mar 31, 2014 (SPX)

Swinburne University of Technology has launched a free online astronomy virtual laboratory that will allow scientists to build complex customised views of the U...

Record quantum entanglement of multiple dimensions

Mar 31, 2014 (SPX)

The states in which elementary particles, such as photons, can be found have properties which are beyond common sense. Superpositions are produced, such as the ...

Plugging the hole in Hawking's black hole theory

Mar 26, 2014 (SPX)

Recently physicists have been poking holes again in Stephen Hawking's black hole theory - including Hawking himself. For decades physicists across the globe hav...

Hunt for an unidentified electron object

Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers have developed a new mathematical framework capable of describing motions in superfluids - low temperature fluids that exhibit classical as well as ...

Researchers see Kelvin wave on quantum 'tornado' for first time

Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)

Draining the water from a bathtub causes a spinning tornado to appear. The downward flow of water into the drain causes the water to rotate, and as the rotation...

There must be particles out there smaller than Higgs particle

Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)

Now it is more likely than ever: There must be particles out there smaller than Higgs particle. Nobody has seen them yet; particles that are smaller than the Hi...

NASA Technology Views Birth of the Universe

Mar 18, 2014 (JPL)

Astronomers are announcing today that they have acquired the first direct evidence that gravitational waves rippled through our infant universe during an explos...

Major discovery bolsters Big Bang theory of universe

Mar 17, 2014 (AFP)

Waves of gravity that rippled through space right after the Big Bang have been detected for the first time, in a landmark discovery that adds to our understandi...

Crystals ripple in response to light

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

Light can trigger coordinated, wavelike motions of atoms in atom-thin layers of crystal, scientists have shown. The waves, called phonon polaritons, are far sho...

Up-Converted Radio

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

Ever worry about losing your mobile-phone reception? The problem is a weak microwave signal. The same problem hampers cosmologists looking at the early universe...

Extraordinary momentum and spin discovered in evanescent light waves

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

A team of researchers from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) in Japan has identified unexpected dynamic properties of a type of light wave cal...

These aren't the voids you're looking for

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

Australian astronomers have shown galaxies in the vast empty regions of the Universe are actually aligned into delicate strings in research published today in t...

Some galaxies in the early universe grew up quickly

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

Some galaxies grew up in a hurry. Most of the galaxies that have been observed from the early days of the universe were young and actively forming stars. Now, a...

Direct Measurement of Distant Black Hole's Spin

Mar 09, 2014 (SPX)

Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's (ESA's) XMM-Newton to show a supermassive black hole six billion light ye...

New fast and furious black hole found

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

A team of Australian and American astronomers have been studying nearby galaxy M83 and have found a new superpowered small black hole, named MQ1, the first obje...