New Approach Enhances Quantum-Based Secure Communication
Researchers from the University of Calgary have developed a new quantum key distribution (QKD) system that implements a recently discovered new QKD protocol to enhance…
Researchers from the University of Calgary have developed a new quantum key distribution (QKD) system that implements a recently discovered new QKD protocol to enhance…
After 10 years of planning, building, and testing, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) has officially begun. Tonight, as the sun sinks below the horizon, the…
New Subaru Telescope observations of super-Earth GJ 1214 b show that the exoplanet is likely to have a water-rich atmosphere. A Japanese research team of…
A newly published study details a massive storm that erupted on Saturn in late 2010, finding that cloud particles at the top of the great…
UC Riverside scientists developed a new approach for graphene logic circuits, changing the way the information is processed in the circuits. Riverside, California — A…
Using Pan-STARRS and UKIDSS, astronomers discovered 673 binaries with candidate brown dwarf companions. Astronomers trying to understand how the Sun and Earth formed, and why…
This new image from the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (PRESSTO) shows spiral galaxy Messier 74 and its new supernova, SN2013ej. ESO’s PESSTO…
This composite image from NASA’s NuSTAR and the European Southern Observatory shows the Sculptor galaxy, also known as NGC 253. The Sculptor galaxy is seen…
The first batch of data from NASA’s NuSTAR is now publicly available, providing data on observations obtained during the first two months of the mission…
Using ultracold cesium atoms in a vacuum chamber, scientists have successfully simulated the evolution of the early universe. Physicists have reproduced a pattern resembling the…
Researchers from the Berkeley Lab have developed a method by which molecular hydrogen-producing catalysts can be interfaced with a semiconductor that absorbs visible light, producing…
Astronomers from the University of British Columbia have identified a 60-kilometer-wide (37-mile-wide) asteroid that shares the orbit of Uranus. UBC astronomers have discovered the first…
This composite Hubble image shows IRAS 20324+4057, a protostar in a very early evolutionary stage. This light-year-long knot of interstellar gas and dust resembles a…
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown canyon hidden beneath two kilometers of ice in Greenland. The canyon is at least 750km long and in places…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers found that less than 1% of the material in the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole’s gravitational grasp…
Using new data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, scientists from UC Santa Cruz discovered a negative correlation between the gravity and topography signals on Titan, indicating…
Using the combined computing power of 200,000 private PCs, the Einstein@Home project discovered 24 new pulsars in archival data. The combined computing power of 200,000…
By using a new method, which modified an established approach to generate so-called neuroectoderm, scientists were able to grow human brain tissue in a three-dimensional…