Nanofabrication to lead to Quantum Computer
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The team of scientists headed by professor Jeremy Levy at Pitts University has developed nanofabrication tools. The team has an electron beam lithography and nano engineering workstation - with an electron beam capable of ...
More Than 470 Physicists Sign Petition To Oppose U.S. Policy On Nuclear Attack
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More than 470 physicists, including seven Nobel laureates, have signed a petition to oppose a new U.S. Defense Department proposal that allows the United States to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states. The petition was ...
Is there another world in the mirror, Case physicist asks
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Like Lewis Carroll’s Alice, who steps through the looking glass into a strange world, Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve University professor of physics, began his search for extra dimensional worlds with the Twilight Zo ...
Mt Taranaki 'overdue' for eruption
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Researchers have uncovered evidence suggesting Mt Taranaki is overdue to erupt, possibly blanketing much of the North Island in ash and disrupting power and water supplies, farming and aviation. Although the 2518m volcano, New ...
New Evidence About the Rise of Oxygen
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Scientists believe that oxygen first showed up in the atmosphere about 2.7 billion years ago. They think it was put there by a one-celled organism called "cyanobacteria," which had recently become the first living thing on ...
Gold nanorods brighten future for medical imaging
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Researchers at Purdue University have taken a step toward developing a new type of ultra-sensitive medical imaging technique that works by shining a laser through the skin to detect tiny gold nanorods injected ...
Scientists discover new method for creating high-yield single-walled carbon nanotubes
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Cousins of the 1996 Nobel Prize-winning buckyball, carbon nanotubes have taken the nanotechnology industry by storm. Exhibiting extraordinary strength, flexibility and unique electrical, mechanical and optical properties, ...
Dark spins light up
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Want to see a diamond? Forget the jewellery store - try a physics laboratory. In the November issue of Nature Physics, Ryan Epstein and colleagues demonstrate the power of their microscope for imaging individual nitrogen ...
Schizophrenia: Delusion without illusion
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British scientists say schizophrenics aren't fooled by a visual illusion and can judge it more accurately than can non-schizophrenic observers.
Expectations For A Final Theory?
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Martin Rees is Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge and Britain's Astronomer Royal. He is the author of numerous popular science books, including the bestselling Just Six Numbers: The Deep ...
Venus Express preliminary investigations bring encouraging news
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Following the announcement of the Venus Express launch delay due to particulate contamination found in the launcher fairing where the spacecraft was installed, ESA staff and industry teams have started an ...
'Wireless Webbers' live digital lifestyle
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"Wireless Webbers" are more likely to lead an entirely digital lifestyle compared to more standard Netsurfers.
Nanothermometer: Tiny gold spheres with a corona of semiconductor nanoparticles show temperature-dependent glow
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Small, smaller, nano - nanoscopic particles that can be arranged into controlled superstructures are the stuff from which future "intelligent" materials with new functions could be made. American researchers at the University ...
Sprint offers phone service for deaf in N.J.
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Sprint said Tuesday it has been awarded a contract to provide New Jersey with communicative services to the deaf and hard of hearing.
Russia is cautious about GM foods
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Russian scientists say they must study the implications of genetically modified food before such food is widely introduced in their nation.
