News tagged with wave detector

Quantum microphone captures extremely weak sound

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Chalmers have demonstrated a new kind of detector for sound at the level of quietness of quantum mechanics. The result offers prospects of a new class of quantum hybrid circuits ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Scientist instils new hope of detecting gravitational waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- Direct evidence of the existence of gravitational waves is something that has long eluded researchers, however new research has suggested that adding just one of the proposed detectors in Japan, Australia ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

CERN's new Einstein Observatory to explore black holes, Big Bang

A new era in astronomy will come a step closer when scientists from across Europe present their design study today for an advanced observatory capable of making precision measurements of gravitational waves ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Goal: developing the best atomic clock in the world

They are masters at working with light: the scientists at the newly founded QUEST Institute at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig. And they want to work on some of the most exciting questions relating ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Giant balloon flying high over Atlantic to catch cosmic rays

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Delaware researchers in Sweden have launched a giant balloon taller than a football field that is now flying at the edge of space to collect data on cosmic rays -- the most super-charged ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Researchers could herald a new era in fundamental physics

Cardiff University researchers who are part of a British-German team searching the depths of space to study gravitational waves, may have stumbled on one of the most important discoveries in physics according to an American ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 8