Sonata in LHCb: The sound of antimatter 27 Aug 2013 | 03:36 pm

In a recent paper the LHCb collaboration at CERN observed two particles changing from matter into antimatter and back again. Now the collaboration has turned that data into sound, so that you can list...

Titan’s Fancy Collar 26 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm

Titan’s polar collar — previously seen by Voyager 2 and the Hubble Space Telescope — has now been observed by the Cassini spacecraft, seen here in ultraviolet light. The collar is believed to be seaso...

Where Was The Big Bang? 24 Aug 2013 | 11:56 am

New Imagery of Asteroid Mission 23 Aug 2013 | 03:57 pm

NASA released Aug. 22 new photos and video animations depicting the agency’s planned mission to find, capture, redirect, and study a near-Earth asteroid. The images depict crew operations including th...

Deterministic quantum teleportation of photonic quantum bits … 21 Aug 2013 | 10:45 pm

… by a hybrid technique Deterministic quantum teleportation of a photonic quantum bit. Each qubit that flies from the left into the teleporter leaves the teleporter on the right with a loss of qualit...

ALMA Takes Close Look at Drama of Starbirth 21 Aug 2013 | 06:18 pm

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have obtained a vivid close-up view of material streaming away from a newborn star. By looking at the glow coming from carbon ...

Quantum paradox seen in diamond 21 Aug 2013 | 02:24 am

Real-life version of Zeno’s ancient Greek conundrum could advance quantum computing. Physicists coaxed electrons in a tiny diamond crystal into realising a quantum version of the adage ‘a watched pot...

Video: Mercury and Relativity 20 Aug 2013 | 09:37 pm

Evidence for Low-Temperature Melting of Mercury owing to Relativity An old problem solved: Monte Carlo simulations using the diatomic-in-molecule method derived from accurate ground- and excited-state...

Computer Can Read Letters Directly from the Brain 20 Aug 2013 | 05:03 pm

By analysing MRI images of the brain with an elegant mathematical model, it is possible to reconstruct thoughts more accurately than ever before. In this way, researchers from Radboud University Nijme...

The Quantum Enhanced LIGO Detector Sets New Sensitivity Record 19 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm

Recent progress in generating quantum states of squeezed vacuum has made it possible to enhance the sensitivity of the 4 km gravitational wave detector at the LIGO Hanford Observatory to an unpreceden...