Report: Scientists 'teleport' two photons
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Scientists in Germany say they have successfully teleported the combined quantum state of two photons.
Intel, UCSB Develop World's First Hybrid Silicon Laser
Sep 18, 2006 |
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Researchers from Intel and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have built the world’s first electrically powered Hybrid Silicon Laser using standard silicon manufacturing processes. This breakthrough ...
First penis transplant patient hated it
Sep 18, 2006 |
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A Chinese accident victim who became the world's first successful recipient of a transplanted penis psychologically rejected it and asked for its removal.
Researchers Uncover a Secret of the Black Death
Sep 18, 2006 |
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Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes plague, is a sneaky little intruder with a remarkable ability to evade the body’s immune system. Upon entering an organism, Y. pestis employs a variety of strategies to slip below ...
MIT designs 'invisible,' floating wind turbines
Sep 18, 2006 |
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An MIT researcher has a vision: Four hundred huge offshore wind turbines are providing onshore customers with enough electricity to power several hundred thousand homes, and nobody standing onshore can see them. The trick? ...
Materials scientists tame tricky carbon nanotubes
Sep 18, 2006 |
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Based on a new theory, MIT scientists may be able to manipulate carbon nanotubes -- one of the strongest known materials and one of the trickiest to work with -- without destroying their extraordinary electrical ...
Scientists snap first images of brown dwarf in planetary system
Sep 18, 2006 |
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Scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered and directly imaged a small brown dwarf star, 50 times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting with a planet around a Sun-like star. Such an arrangement ...
Research finds that large(ish) objects can follow the rules of the microscopic world
Sep 18, 2006 |
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Miles Blencowe, a quantum theorist with the physics and astronomy department at Dartmouth, is part of a team working to connect the macroscopic and the microscopic worlds by seeing if they can make larger objects obey the ...
New evidence links stellar remains to oldest-recorded supernova
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Recent observations have uncovered evidence that helps to confirm the identification of the remains of one of the earliest stellar explosions recorded by humans.
Hearing voices not always negative
Sep 18, 2006 |
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Researchers at Britain's Manchester University have said hearing voices is not necessarily a sign of mental illness.
Researchers Developing More Powerful Solar Cells
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Sure, Iowa has its share of rainy, snowy and cloudy days. But look out the window. “We have a lot of sunlight,” said Vikram Dalal as sunshine lit up a late-summer morning and the south-facing windows of his office at Iowa ...
Metal deformation studies lead to new understanding of materials at extreme conditions
Sep 18, 2006 |
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Researchers have found a new tool to explore materials at extreme conditions. By combining very large-scale molecular dynamics simulations with time-resolved data from laser experiments of shock wave propagation through specific ...
Paramecia adapt their swimming to changing gravitational force
Sep 18, 2006 |
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Using a high-powered electromagnet, Brown University physicists Karine Guevorkian and James Valles have created a topsy-turvy world for the single-celled paramecium. They have managed to increase, eliminate ...
New Search Engine Can be Used for Creative Discovery
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Sep 18, 2006 |
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When you ask a supercomputer to tell a story, you might not expect a creative outcome – or any. But a group of Virginia Tech researchers are using System X, the university’s supercomputer, to test a new search ...
Research shows who dies when and where
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In the United States, the best-off people, like Asian women in Bergen County, N.J., have a life expectancy 33 years longer than the worst-off, Native American males in some South Dakota counties - 91 versus 58 years. So concludes ...
