Kazakh President to Meet IAEA Head to Sign Nuclear Fuel Bank Agreement
Astana, Kazakhstan (Sputnik) Aug 27, 2015 -
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev to meet with Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano on Thursday, the day when the Nuclear Fuel Bank is due to be officially opened in Kazakhstan, Nazarbayev's press service said Tuesday.
"On this day, the President of Kazakhstan will host IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano and former US Senator Sam Nunn," the pre ...
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Record high pressure squeezes secrets out of osmium
Bayreuth, Germany (SPX) Aug 25, 2015 -
An international team of scientists led by the University of Bayreuth and with participation of DESY has created the highest static pressure ever achieved in a lab: Using a special high pressure device, the researchers investigated the behaviour of the metal osmium at pressures of up to 770 Gigapascals (GPa) - more than twice the pressure in the inner core of the Earth, and about 130 Gigapascals ...
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A new way to detect ortho-para conversion in water
Southampton, UK (SPX) Aug 27, 2015 -
New research by scientists from the University of Southampton has found that water molecules react differently to electric fields, which could provide a new way to study spin isomers at the single-molecule level.
Water molecules exist in two forms or 'isomers', ortho and para, that have different nuclear spin states. In ortho-water, the nuclear spins are parallel to one another, and in par ...
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Quantum diffraction at a breath of nothing
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Aug 27, 2015 -
The quantum mechanical wave nature of matter is the basis for a number of modern technologies like high resolution electron microscopy, neutron-based studies on solid state materials or highly sensitive inertial sensors working with atoms. The research in the group around Prof. Markus Arndt at the University of Vienna is focused on how one can extend such technologies to large molecules and clus ...
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A little light interaction leaves quantum physicists beaming
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Aug 25, 2015 -
A team of physicists at the University of Toronto (U of T) have taken a step toward making the essential building block of quantum computers out of pure light. Their advance, described in a paper published this week in Nature Physics, has to do with a specific part of computer circuitry known as a "logic gate."
Logic gates perform operations on input data to create new outputs. In classica ...
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Biophysicists take small step in quest for 'robot scientist'
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 27, 2015 -
Biophysicists have taken another small step forward in the quest for an automated method to infer models describing a system's dynamics - a so-called robot scientist. Nature Communications published the finding - a practical algorithm for inferring laws of nature from time-series data of dynamical systems.
"Our algorithm is a small step," says Ilya Nemenman, lead author of the study and a ...
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Another milestone in hybrid artificial photosynthesis
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2015 -
A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developing a bioinorganic hybrid approach to artificial photosynthesis have achieved another milestone. Having generated quite a buzz with their hybrid system of semiconducting nanowires and bacteria that used electrons to synthesize carbon dioxide into acetate, the team has now de ...
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