Trapped, Imaged Single Atoms May Enable Powerful Quantum Computing
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Quantum computers have the potential to vastly out-perform present-day “classical” computers – if scientists can identify and manipulate promising quantum bits, or “qubits,” the basic information-storing units ...
Unique Material May Allow Capacitors to Store More Energy
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Imagine an electric car with the same acceleration capability as a gas-powered sports car, or ultrafast rechargeable “batteries” that can be recharged a thousand times more than existing conventional batteries. According ...
HiRISE Catches a Dust Devil on Mars
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Jul 20, 2007 |
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The University of Arizona-based High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) group this week released a good look at a dust devil on Mars. This is not the storm bedeviling NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit ...
Physicists get ultra-sharp glimpse of electrons
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MIT physicists have developed a spectroscopy technique that allows researchers to inspect the world of electrons confined to a two-dimensional plane more clearly than ever before.
Researchers Find New Way To Fabricate Striped Nanorods
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Superlatticed or “striped" nanorods – crystalline materials only a few molecules in thickness and made up of two or more semiconductors – are highly valued for their potential to serve in a variety of nanodevices, ...
Mars Rovers Braving Severe Dust Storms
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Jul 20, 2007 |
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Having explored Mars for three-and-a-half years in what were missions originally designed for three months, NASA's Mars rovers are facing perhaps their biggest challenge.
Internet via power lines set to launch
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A plan to offer consumers Internet access through their home's power lines may soon come to fruition for residents of Grand Ledge, Mich.
Study Sheds Light on Why Humans Walk on Two Legs
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A team of anthropologists that studied chimpanzees trained to use treadmills has gathered new evidence suggesting that our earliest apelike ancestors started walking on two legs because it required less energy ...
One species, many genomes
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Faster growth, darker leaves, a different way of branching - wild varieties of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana are often substantially different from the laboratory strain of this small mustard plant, a favorite ...
Blood transfusions are unlikely to spread cancer
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Individuals who receive blood transfusions from donors with undiagnosed cancers are at no higher risk of developing malignant disease than people who receive blood from donors without cancer, according to the results of a ...
Genetic diversity in honeybee colonies boosts productivity
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Why do queen honeybees mate with dozens of males? Does their extreme promiscuity, perhaps, serve a purpose?
Rovers begin new observations on changing Martian atmosphere
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Jul 20, 2007 |
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Mars rover scientists have launched a new long-term study on the Martian atmosphere with the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer, an instrument that was originally developed at the University of Chicago.
N.C. Wyeth's coloring technique revealed by Cornell's synchrotron as it uncovers eight decades of paint
Jul 20, 2007 |
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The pentimento of a flying fist, just visible beneath layers of paint, triggered an investigation of N.C. Wyeth's "Family Portrait" at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa. A simple X-ray revealed ...
NASA Robots Practice Moon Survey in the Arctic Circle
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Two NASA robots are surveying a rocky, isolated polar desert within a crater in the Arctic Circle. The study will help scientists learn how robots could evaluate potential outposts on the moon or Mars.
Keeping GLAST on Track
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Thanks to the work of a team of physicists at SLAC, a technique used for years in physics experiments such as BaBar will soon help researchers monitor the performance of the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope ...
