 Long-Lasting Quantum Memory Leads to Long-Distance Quantum Communication 2 hours ago | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have taken a step closer to realizing long-distance quantum communication, in which a quantum state is transferred from one location to another by becoming entangled with a traveling ... | |
 In quantum channels, zero plus zero can equal non-zero October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have discovered a strange characteristic of quantum communication channels. If two quantum channels each have a transmission capacity of zero, they may still have a nonzero capacity ... | |
 Japanese duo, US scientist win Nobel for particle physics 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan and Yoichiro Nambu of the United States won the 2008 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for groundbreaking theoretical work in fundamental particles. | |
 Fuzziness on the road to physics' grand unification theory October 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 53 vote(s)
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Leave it to hypothesized gravity to weigh down what physicists have thought for 30 years. If theoretical physicists, led by the University of Oregon's Stephen Hsu, are right, the idea that nature's forces ... | |
 Overweight men face higher risk of dying of prostate cancer 15 minutes ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Prostate cancer patients who are overweight and have elevated insulin levels are much more likely to die of the cancer than other patients, say researchers at Harvard University and McGill ... | |
 The Color of Evolution: How One Fish Became Two Fish 37 minutes ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since Darwin discovered that species can evolve, scientists have wondered how new species form. Answering this question is the key to understanding the diversity of all of life. A group ... | |
Fabless future: Struggling AMD spins off factories 52 minutes ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- For years, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s scrappy image was best summed up by an insult that founder Jerry Sanders lobbed against rivals: "Real men have fabs." | |
 CoRoT discovery challenges the definition of extra-solar planets 2 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(PhysOrg.com) -- The CoRoT satellite has discovered a planet-sized object so exotic that astronomers are unsure whether to call it a planet. The object, named CoRoT-Exo-3b, is approximately the same size as ... | |
 Robot suit for rent in Japan to help people walk 6 hours ago | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(AP) -- A robotic suit that reads brain signals and helps people with mobility problems will be available to rent in Japan for $2,200 a month starting Friday - an invention that may have far-reaching benefits ... | |
Extinction by asteroid a rarity: 'Sick Earth' extinctions more likely 6 hours ago | User rating: 3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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In geology as in cancer research, the silver bullet theory always gets the headlines and nearly always turns out to be wrong. | |
 COROT discovery stirs exoplanet classification rethink 3 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(PhysOrg.com) -- COROT has discovered a massive planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before. It is so exotic, that scientists are unsure as to whether this oddity ... | |
 Deepest living fishes caught on camera for the first time 2 hours ago | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists filming in one of the world's deepest ocean trenches have found groups of highly sociable snailfish swarming over their bait, nearly five miles (7700 metres) beneath the surface ... | |
 2008 ozone hole larger than last year 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
The 2008 ozone hole – a thinning in the ozone layer over Antarctica – is larger both in size and ozone loss than 2007 but is not as large as 2006. | |
Hack-a-vote: Students learn how vulnerable electronic voting really is 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
This week undergraduate and graduate students in an advanced computer security course at Rice University in Houston are learning hands-on just how easy it is to wreak havoc on computer software used in today's voting machines. | |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite the potential of new vaccines to prevent TB, new research shows that the removal of one strain of TB can allow a previously suppressed strain to succeed. Consequently, a vaccination ... | |
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