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Worldwide coordinated search for dark matter

Saturday, 22 January 2022 11:20
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Mainz, Germany (SPX) Jan 21, 2022
An international team of researchers with key participation from the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) has published for the first time comprehensive data on the search for dark matter using a worldwide network of optical magnetometers. According to the scientists, dark matter fields should produce a characteristic
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Trieste, Italy (SPX) Jan 19, 2022
With a new computational approach, SISSA researchers have been able to make the fascinating calculation. Moreover, according to their work, around 1% of the overall ordinary (baryonic) matter is locked up in stellar mass black holes. Their results have just been published in the prestigious 'The Astrophysical Journal'. How many black holes are out there in the Universe? This is one of the
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London, UK (SPX) Jan 14, 2022
The UK Space Agency has invested 25 million pounds in innovative science for the European Space Agency mission, called Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO), ensuring UK scientists and engineers, led by the University of Warwick, will take part in all aspects of the mission. Caroline Harper, Head of Space Science at the UK Space Agency, said: The critical milestone rev

PLATO clears decisive hurdle

Saturday, 22 January 2022 11:20
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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 19, 2022
The European Space Agency (ESA) has given the green light to build the flight models of the spacecraft and science payload for the PLATO mission to search for extrasolar planets. The Critical Milestone Review officially concluded on 11 January 2022. This means that the production of the hardware for the space telescope system can now commence. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur L

Quantum computing in silicon hits 99% accuracy

Saturday, 22 January 2022 11:20
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 20, 2022
Australian researchers have proven that near error-free quantum computing is possible, paving the way to build silicon-based quantum devices compatible with current semiconductor manufacturing technology. "Today's publication shows our operations were 99 per cent error-free," says Professor Andrea Morello of UNSW, who led the work with partners in the US, Japan, Egypt, and at UTS and the U
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Delft, Netherlands (SPX) Jan 20, 2022
Researchers at QuTech-a collaboration between the Delft University of Technology and TNO-have taken an important step for semiconductor spin qubits by surpassing the 99% barrier for two-qubit gate fidelity. They report on their findings in Nature on 19 January 2021 and are featured on the issue's cover. Two independent works from groups at UNSW Sydney and at RIKEN report similar results in the s
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Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 20, 2022
Researchers from RIKEN and QuTech-a collaboration between TU Delft and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)- have achieved a key milestone toward the development of a fault-tolerant quantum computer. They were able to demonstrate a two-qubit gate fidelity of 99.5 percent-higher than the 99 percent considered to be the threshold for building fault-tolerant comp
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Wenchang (XNA) Jan 22, 2022
China plans to launch its new generation carrier rocket Long March-8 Y2 between late February and early March from the southern island of Hainan, sources with the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, the country's leading rocket maker, said on Friday. The rocket arrived at the Wenchang Space Launch Center Friday after a week of ocean transport. It will undergo final assembly and tes
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 22, 2022
NASA selected 57 winning teams in an inaugural nationwide challenge designed to attract, engage, and prepare future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professionals. The winning teams of the NASA TechRise Student Challenge will gain real world STEM experience by building experiments that autonomously operate and collect data from the edge of space aboard a suborbital rocket or a h

Ejecting Mars' Pebbles

Saturday, 22 January 2022 07:53
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 22, 2022
The team has made good progress implementing the initial recovery steps outlined in last week's blog. Our first success: The upper two pebbles were ejected from the bit carousel during a test. This is great news, as these small chunks of debris are believed to be the cause of the unsuccessful transfer of the drill bit and sample tube into the carousel back on Dec. 29. Our second success: We appe
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Perth, Australia (SPX) Jan 22, 2022
New Curtin University research has confirmed the frequency of asteroid collisions that formed impact craters on Mars has been consistent over the past 600 million years. The study, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, analysed the formation of more than 500 large Martian craters using a crater detection algorithm previously developed at Curtin, which automatically counts the v

Sols 3364-3366: Back at the Prow

Saturday, 22 January 2022 07:53
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Boston MA (SPX) Jan 22, 2022
On Wednesday we collected our first MAHLI images of the outcrops we've been studying the last few sols, and then drove back to the Prow to give us another chance to investigate the fascinating sedimentary structures we see preserved in this region. This morning we were pleased to find the rover was parked within a short bump distance to the Prow outcrop, exactly where we'd hoped to start the day
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Rochester NY (SPX) Jan 22, 2022
For the first time, scientists believe they have detected a merger of two black holes with eccentric orbits. According to a paper published in Nature Astronomy by researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology's Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation and the University of Florida, this can help explain how some of the black hole mergers detected by LIGO Scientific Collaboration
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Morgantown WV (SPX) Jan 22, 2022
The space economy is on track to be valued at a trillion dollars by the end of 2030, according to Piyush Mehta, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at West Virginia University. Yet space assets-equipment that is placed in space such as navigation, weather and communication satellites that serve our society daily-are threatened by space debris. According to NASA, it

AGIS signs Kleos' data evaluation contract

Saturday, 22 January 2022 07:53
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Luxembourg (SPX) Jan 22, 2022
Kleos Space, a space- powered radio frequency reconnaissance data-as-a-service (DaaS) company, has received a data evaluation contract from Advanced Ground Information Systems, Inc. (AGIS). AGIS simultaneously processes up to 200,000 real-time sensor reports to provide command and control communication capabilities to US military, government and first responders. Its Command, Control, Comm
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