First quantum teleportation between light and matter
Oct 05, 2006 |
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The concept of quantum teleportation - the disembodied complete transfer of the state of a quantum system to any other place - was first experimentally realised between two different light beams. Later it became also possible ...
Scientists find clues to the formation of Fibonacci spirals in nature
May 01, 2007 |
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While the aesthetics and symmetry of Fibonacci spiral patterns has often attracted scientists, a mathematical or physical explanation for their common occurrence in nature is yet to be discovered. Recently, ...
A Cosmic Coincidence Resurrects the Cyclical Universe
Jun 05, 2006 |
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Over the past five years or so, scientists have finally converged on a model of the universe that explains (or at least permits) all of its characteristics. The new cosmological model has one very surprising feature, however, ...
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Single-particle interference observed for macroscopic objects
Sep 28, 2006 |
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With a variation on the famous double-slit experiment of quantum mechanics, scientists Yves Couder and Emmanuel Fort from the University of Paris 7 are rewriting the textbooks. Their accomplishment, however, ...
Towards the magnetic fridge
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Apr 21, 2006 |
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Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a material that gives a whole new complexion to the term 'fridge magnet'. When this alloy is placed in a magnetic field, it gets colder. Karl Sandeman and his co-workers ...
Our Universe: A Quantum Loop
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Apr 25, 2006 |
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“There are two classical branches of the universe connected by a quantum bridge. This connects the former collapse with the current expansion.” While Abhay Ashtekar and his colleagues, Tomasz Pawlowski and Parampreet Singh, ...
Switchable mirror glass produced for energy efficient windows
Jan 30, 2007 |
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Although windows can naturally heat buildings in the cold seasons, some hot sunny days might make you wish that windows would just go away. Scientists from Japan have recently designed new technology that will ...
Billions of particles of anti-matter created in laboratory
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Take a gold sample the size of the head of a push pin, shoot a laser through it, and suddenly more than 100 billion particles of anti-matter appear.
Flat, Flexible, Wireless Power Source Can Go Anywhere
May 23, 2007 |
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A team of Japanese researchers has created a novel wireless power-transmission device that is thin, flat, and flexible. Based on a sheet of plastic, the device can be put on desks, floors, walls, and almost ...
Coil design confines plasma in stellarator fusion reactor
Aug 10, 2007 |
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Researchers from New York University have designed a configuration of coils for a stellarator, a type of device that controls fusion reactions. The shape, number and position of the coils are optimized to ...
A Printer that Delivers 1,000 Pages a Minute?
Sep 21, 2006 |
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Two researchers from The College of Judea and Samaria in Israel have designed an ink-jet printer head that could lead to printers capable of chugging out 1,000 pages per minute – or even more.
A sound way to turn heat into electricity
Jun 04, 2007 |
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University of Utah physicists developed small devices that turn heat into sound and then into electricity. The technology holds promise for changing waste heat into electricity, harnessing solar energy and ...
Relativity Derived Without Calculus -- Possibly Centuries Ago
Oct 08, 2007 |
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After Einstein developed his theories of special and general relativity, in 1905 and 1916, respectively, the world of physics changed dramatically. The theories, with their groundbreaking ideas on space and ...
Physicists generate ball-lightning in the lab
Jun 06, 2006 |
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Scientists in the joint study group of Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik and Berlin’s Humboldt University have generated ball-lightning in the laboratory - or, to be more precise, ball-lightning-like plasma ...
Probing Question: Can anything travel faster than the speed of light?
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Mar 23, 2006 |
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Can anything travel faster than the speed of light? "No," is what Albert Einstein would likely say if he was alive today -- and he would be the man to ask, because scientists have been taking his word for it ...
