Information Storage in Three Dimensions
Mar 18, 2008 |
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For the first time, researchers have successfully turned a glass material into three-dimensional information storage using a light-based technique. This achievement may be a big step forward for the real-life implementation ...
Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Teleportation and Memory in Tandem
Jan 30, 2008 |
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In research that may be a key step toward real-life quantum communication—the transmission of information using atoms, photons, or other quantum objects—researchers created an experiment in which a quantum bit of information ...
Controversy-plagued superheavy element 118 finally created
Oct 16, 2006 |
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Element 118 has been indirectly discovered in experiments conducted at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, Russia by a collaboration of researchers from Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear ...
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How foamy is spacetime?
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Feb 10, 2006 |
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Maybe not as foamy as some scientists thought, as a fresh look at a quasar first observed in 1998 by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) shows. Physicists observed a diffraction pattern called an Airy ring around ...
Report: Scientists 'teleport' two photons
Sep 18, 2006 |
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Scientists in Germany say they have successfully teleported the combined quantum state of two photons.
UCF physicist says Hollywood movies hurt students' understanding of science
Aug 15, 2007 |
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Movies such as Spiderman 2 and Speed generate excitement among audiences with their cool special effects. But they also defy the laws of physics, contributing to students’ ignorance about science.
Negative Refraction of Visible Light Demonstrated; Could Lead to Cloaking Devices
Mar 23, 2007 |
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For the first time, physicists have devised a way to make visible light travel in the opposite direction that it normally bends when passing from one material to another, like from air through water or glass. The phenomenon ...
Quantum mechanics may explain how humans smell
Feb 01, 2007 |
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Scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at University College London have newly analyzed an intriguing 10-year-old theory of smell, finding that the idea may make more sense than once thought.
New aluminum-rich alloy produces hydrogen on-demand for large-scale uses
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Purdue University engineers have developed a new aluminum-rich alloy that produces hydrogen by splitting water and is economically competitive with conventional fuels for transportation and power generation.
V-shaped solar cells could lead to better efficiency
Dec 19, 2007 |
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“In solar cells,” Peter Peumans tells PhysOrg.com, “the goal is always higher efficiencies. Higher efficiencies usually mean lower cost.”
Rapid-fire: Electrical circuit may bring Sandia Z to fusion sooner
Apr 25, 2007 |
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An electrical circuit that should carry enough power to produce the long-sought goal of controlled high-yield nuclear fusion and, equally important, do it every 10 seconds, has undergone extensive preliminary ...
Evolution as Described by the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Aug 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Often, physics and biology appear as different worlds, from a scientist’s point of view. Each discipline has its own language and concepts, and physicists and biologists tend to look at the ...
Do classical laws arise from quantum laws?
Nov 12, 2007 |
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“The physics community is mostly divided into two groups,” Johannes Kofler tells PhysOrg.com. “One group believes that quantum theory is underlying the classical world, and that classical physics comes from the quantum. The ot ...
Liquid Crystals Slow Light Pulses to a Snail's Pace
Jun 10, 2008 |
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In a vacuum, the speed of a light pulse is always a constant at 186,000 miles (300,000 km) per second. But by changing the medium through which light travels, physicists can slow down light pulses, and possibly ...
Time to overhaul Newton's theory of gravitation? Galaxy cluster models cast doubt on dark matter
Oct 31, 2007 |
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For almost 75 years, astronomers have believed that the Universe has a large amount of unseen or ‘dark’ matter, thought to make up about five-sixths of the matter in the cosmos. With the conventional theory of gravitation, ...
