Nonlocality of a Single Particle Demonstrated Without Objections
Nov 09, 2007 |
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Usually when physicists talk about nonlocality in quantum mechanics, they’re referring to the fact that two particles can have immediate effects on each other, even when separated by large distances. Einstein ...
The world's smallest double slit experiment
Nov 09, 2007 |
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The big world of classical physics mostly seems sensible: waves are waves and particles are particles, and the moon rises whether anyone watches or not. The tiny quantum world is different: particles are waves ...
Researchers successfully simulate photosynthesis and design a better leaf
Biology /
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University of Illinois researchers have built a better plant, one that produces more leaves and fruit without needing extra fertilizer. The researchers accomplished the feat using a computer model that mimics ...
Cell phone jammers raise question: who controls the airwaves?
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 09, 2007 |
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As more people go about chatting obliviously on their cell phones in public places, foreign companies have enjoyed increasing US sales of a new, albeit illegal, device: the cell phone jammer. When you turn ...
Pelamis Wave Power: In the Sweet Spot of the Curl for Renewable Energy
Nov 09, 2007 |
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The Edinburgh based Pelamis Wave Power Converter has undergone stringest testing over the past ten years before its launch into the commercial market. The project has achieved world-wide attention and created ...
Creationists object to evolution exhibit
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An unprecedented exhibit of early human fossils at a Kenyan museum has pitted religious creationists against scientists.
Carbon nanotubes could go antiballistic
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 09, 2007 |
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CSIRO (Australia) has been granted $2 million under the Defence Capability and Technology Demonstrator (CTD) Program to demonstrate the capabilities of carbon nanotubes as strong, lightweight antiballistic materials.
Physics provides new insights on cataract formation
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Using the tools and techniques of soft condensed matter physics, a research team in Switzerland has demonstrated that a finely tuned balance of attractions between proteins keeps the lens of the eye transparent, and that ...
New HIV vaccine target could solve mutation problem
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 09, 2007 |
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Researchers at UCSF and the University of Toronto have identified a potential new way of fighting against HIV infection that relies on the remnants of ancient viruses, human endogenous retroviruses (HERV), which have become ...
NASA Unveils New Antenna Network in White Sands, N.M.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 09, 2007 |
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Engineers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., showcased the new 18-meter Ka Band Antenna Network, the first such system in agency history, during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the White ...
A galaxy for science and research
Nov 09, 2007 |
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During his visit to ESO's Very Large Telescope at Paranal, the European Commissioner for Science and Research, Janez Potocnik, participated in an observing sequence and took images of a beautiful spiral galaxy.
Are there rearrangement hot spots in the human genome?
Nov 09, 2007 |
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The debate over the validity of genomic rearrangement “hotspots” has its most recent addition in a new theory put forth by researchers at the University of California San Diego. The study, published on November 9 in PLoS Co ...
A new mathematical formula for cancer progression
Nov 09, 2007 |
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Tumor progression can now be mapped less to mathematical standards and more to individual patients according to a new study by researchers at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. The study, publishing in PLoS Computational Bi ...
Scientists use unique diamond anvils to view oxide glass structures under pressure
Nov 09, 2007 |
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have used a uniquely-constructed perforated diamond cell to investigate oxide glass structures at high pressures in unprecedented detail.
Chronic kidney disease rises while most people with the condition remain unaware
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A growing number of Americans have chronic kidney disease, but most remain unaware of it, hampering efforts to prevent irreversible kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant, according to a study funded by the National ...
