Researchers create gold aluminum, black platinum, blue silver
Feb 01, 2008 |
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Using a tabletop laser, a University of Rochester optical scientist has turned pure aluminum, gold. And blue. And gray. And many other colors. And it works for every metal tested, including platinum, titanium, ...
Scientists design Maglev car with greater stability
Jun 02, 2006 |
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Since the late ‘60s, scientists have been designing, building and operating “flying trains,” or magnetically levitated (“Maglev”) systems. However, the sci-fi-like technology still faces challenges for increased ...
Scientists present method for entangling macroscopic objects
Oct 24, 2006 |
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Building upon recent studies on optomechanical entanglement with lasers and mirrors, a group of scientists has developed a theoretical model using entanglement swapping in order to entangle two micromechanical ...
New spaceship force field makes Mars trip possible
Nov 04, 2008 |
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According to the international space agencies, "Space Weather" is the single greatest obstacle to deep space travel. Radiation from the sun and cosmic rays pose a deadly threat to astronauts in space.
Brown engineers build a better battery -- with plastic
Sep 13, 2006 |
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Brown University engineers have created a new battery that uses plastic, not metal, to conduct electrical current. The hybrid device marries the power of a capacitor with the storage capacity of a battery. ...
Linux Evolution Reveals Origins of Curious Mathematical Phenomenon
Dec 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Zipf’s law is a testament to the order in our world, showing that the same patterns emerge in a wide variety of situations. The linguist George Kingsley Zipf first proposed the law in 1949, ...
A Physicist's Guide to Texas Hold 'Em
Apr 04, 2007 |
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What are the odds that poker can be explained by statistical physics, much the same as a variety of other complex systems? They’re pretty good, according to physicist Clément Sire of Université of Toulouse ...
Maglev launch assist technology may enable commercial space travel
Feb 21, 2007 |
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The same technology used in magnetically levitated ("maglev") trains may give spaceships a low-cost, stable boost for the future of space travel—possibly even for joy rides. A research group from two universities ...
New Dark Matter Candidate Proposed
Aug 07, 2007 |
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A vacuum – space essentially void of any matter whatsoever – is a strange thing. And it may be even stranger, according to recent research. Motivated by the results of an experiment known as PVLAS, which showed that not only ...
Plasma thruster tested for Mars mission
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Jan 03, 2006 |
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Technology invented by ANU physicists could see expeditions to Mars become a reality, with the European Space Agency (ESA) announcing it will begin full-scale trials next year.
Probing Question: Are there upper and lower limits to temperature?
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Most people have heard absolute zero described as the lowest possible temperature, but what does that mean? Is it really the coldest cold, or just the lowest temperature that we can measure? Is there a corresponding ...
Researchers may have solved information loss paradox to find black holes do not form
Jun 20, 2007 |
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"Nothing there," is what Case Western Reserve University physicists concluded about black holes after spending a year working on complex formulas to calculate the formation of new black holes. In nearly 13 ...
How Time-Traveling Could Affect Quantum Computing
Nov 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If space-time were constructed in such a way that you could travel back in time, it would create some pretty strange effects. One of these oddities, as many people know, is the “grandfather paradox.” Here, ...
Plenty of nothing: A hole new quantum spin
Jul 26, 2006 |
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Electronic devices are always shrinking in size but it's hard to imagine anything beating what researchers at the University of New South Wales have created: a tiny wire that doesn't even use electrons to carry a current.
Light-emitting transistor uses light to transfer an electrical signal
Nov 01, 2006 |
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In one of the early discoveries of the current "silicon electrophotonics era," scientists from Hitachi, Ltd. in Tokyo have built a light-emitting transistor (LET) that transfers, detects and controls an electrical ...
