Black Holes Made of Light
Mar 06, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of St Andrews have used lasers to simulate a black hole in their laboratory.
Silicon Light Bulbs to Compete with Fluorescent Bulbs
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Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1880, and, since the 1920s, the incandescent light bulb has remained largely unchanged. While that's a testament to Edison's ingenuity, it's also a bulb that uses up ...
Laser remote makes watching TV even lazier
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Modern-day remote controls can be complicated. But, thankfully, researchers are making TV the relaxing, mindless pastime that it was always intended to be with a new easy-to-use remote control. The controller ...
Orbiter discovers a possibly once-habitable ancient Mars lake
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Scientists studying images from The University of Arizona-led High Resolution Imaging Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have discovered never-before-seen impact "megabreccia" and a possibly ...
Physicists Transcribe Entanglement into and out of a Quantum Memory
Mar 06, 2008 |
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have laid the groundwork for a crucial step in quantum information science. They show how entanglement, an essential property of quantum mechanics, can be generated between ...
Researchers engineer new polymers to change their stiffness, strength when exposed to liquids
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An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the departments of macromolecular science and engineering and biomedical engineering at the Case School of Engineering and the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department ...
NIST 'Quantum Logic Clock' Rivals Mercury Ion as World's Most Accurate Clock
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An atomic clock that uses an aluminum atom to apply the logic of computers to the peculiarities of the quantum world now rivals the world's most accurate clock, based on a single mercury atom. Both clocks ...
This is not a drill: The earth actually is moving beneath western Washington
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 06, 2008 |
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While the annual Sound Shake exercise on Wednesday produced a simulated magnitude 6.7 earthquake on the Seattle fault, a real though unfelt seismic event is taking place beneath western Washington.
Camera Spots Wolverine in Sierra Nevada
Biology /
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U.S. Forest Service scientists believe an Oregon State University graduate student working on a cooperative project with the agency’s Pacific Southwest Research station on the Tahoe National Forest has photographed ...
Holograms with explosive power
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People who handle explosives usually have heavy-duty tasks to perform – dislodging rocks, demolishing old buildings, or triggering an avalanche. But explosives can be used for delicate tasks, too: They make ...
Move over Galileo, it's Science 2.0
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In a provocative article in this week’s Science Magazine, the University of Maryland’s Ben Shneiderman, one of the world’s leading researchers and innovators in human-computer interaction, says it’s time for the laboratory ...
Chronically elevated blood sugar levels disable 'fasting switch'
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Continually revved up insulin production, the kind that results from overeating and obesity, slowly dulls the body’s response to insulin. As a result, blood sugar levels start to creep up, setting the stage for diabetes-associated ...
Researchers Create 'Invisibility Cloak' For Colloidal Nanoparticles
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 06, 2008 |
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Carnegie Mellon University’s Michael Bockstaller and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski have created a version of Harry Potter’s famed “invisibility cloak” for nanoparticles.
Large binocular telescope achieves first binocular light
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The Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham, Ariz., has taken celestial images using its twin side-by-side, 8.4-meter (27.6 foot) primary mirrors together, achieving first "binocular" light.
Your brain on Krispy Kremes
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What makes you suddenly dart into the bakery when you spy chocolate- frosted donuts in the window, though you certainly hadn't planned on indulging? As you lick the frosting off your fingers, don't blame a lack of self-control.
