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New Centres Will Assist UK Businesses in Developing Technology Products of the Future

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson today announced government investment of £70 million in a series of state-of-the-art manufacturing research centres across the UK, one of the first of which is to be at the Univers...

8 Jan 2010

Controllable Quantum Systems Allow Us to Better Understand Complex Physical Processes are Now Within Reach

Physical processes affect almost every aspect of our lives, yet physicists still grapple with understanding and modeling the behavior of many such processes—particularly complex quantum physical processes, includin...

7 Jan 2010

Researchers Observed Nanoscale Symmetry Hidden in Solid State Matter

Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), in cooperation with colleagues from Oxford and Bristol Universities, as well as the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK, have for the first time observed a nanoscale symmetry hidden in solid state matter.

7 Jan 2010

Argonne Researcher Named 2009 AAAS Fellow

Ron Shepard of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has been awarded the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

From Argonne National Laboratory 6 Jan 2010

Researchers Use Calcium Ion to Simulate Relativistic Quantum Particle

Researchers of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Innsbruck, Austria, used a calcium ion to simulate a relativistic quantum particle, demonstrating a phenomenon that has not been directly observable so far: the Zitterbewegung. They have published their findings in the current issue of the journal Nature.

6 Jan 2010

Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named AAAS Fellows

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded two scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory with the distinction of Fellow. Chi-Chang Kao and Thomas L...

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 6 Jan 2010

The Arrival of Superfast Quantum Computing is A Step Closer

The arrival of superfast quantum computing is closer following recent breakthroughs by an international team led by UNSW researchers.

5 Jan 2010

New Paradigm Allowing Scientists to Observe Quantum Behavior in Small Mechanical Systems

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have proposed a new paradigm that should allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in small mechanical systems. Their ideas, described in the latest ...

21 Dec 2009

Four PTB Primary Atomic Clocks Will Contribute to UTC

The world's best caesium atomic clocks control Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), an atomic time scale on which the time zones used in everyday life are based. But also in navigation (GPS), astronomy, telecommunicatio...

21 Dec 2009

Energetiq Technology Introduces Three New Product in LDLS Family

Energetiq Technology, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of specialized short-wavelength light products for use in advanced technology applications, will introduce three more light sources in its Laser-Driven Light Source (LDLS) product family at SPIE Photonics West and BiOS, January 23-28, 2010 in San Francisco.

From Energetiq Technology 18 Dec 2009