The Longform Guide to Space

Source: Slate

Space shuttle Columbia, which was destroyed during re-entry in 2003 Chronicling outer space presents a particular challenge. It’s not like any other beat: The sports writer attends the game, the political correspondent visits Capitol Hill. But fewer than ...
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Flame Challenge finalists

Source: Newsday

On March 2, scientists were asked to answer the question "What is a flame?" in a way that an 11-year-old would understand. More than 800 entries were received in the Flame Challenge, which was sponsored by the Center for Communicating Science at Ston ...
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Physicists Build the First Quantum Interface

Source: Big Think

Physicists at the University of Innsbruck have taken an essential step toward creating quantum computers, which may prove vastly more powerful than today's chip-based technology. By creating a network that inte ...
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Important building block for quantum internet developed

Source: Tom's Hardware Guide

Scientists at the University of Innsbruck say they've created the first efficient and tunable interface for quantum networks. An interface is needed to transfer information from quantum processors onto the ...
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First Bose-Einstein condensate of erbium: Quantum condensate of the thirteenth kind

Source: The Freeman Chronicles

ScienceDaily (May 22, 2012) ? Francesca Ferlaino’s research team at the University of Innsbruck is the first to successfully create a condensate of the exotic element erbium. Ultracold quantum gases have exceptional properties and offer ...
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Efficient and tunable interface for quantum networks

Source: EurekAlert

IMAGE: At the core of the experiment by Rainer Blatt's group in Innsbruck lies an optical resonator consisting of two highly reflective mirrors. Quantum technologies promise to redefine the landscape of information processing and communication. We alre ...
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Elusive quasiparticles realized

Source: Science Daily

ScienceDaily (May 23, 2012) In quantum physics physical processes in condensed matter and other many-body systems can often be described with quasiparticles. In Innsbruck, for the first time Rudolf Grimm's team of physicists has s ...
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Do it yourself and say 'aha!’

Source: Times of India

Nobel laureate Sir CV Raman did India proud by his contribution to Physics that won him the Nobel prize in 1930. No Indian scientist thereafter has been conferred the Nobel. And, there has been no notable invention from India ...
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