Catching the Gravitational Wave

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Traveling at the Speed of Thought

For nearly a century, scientists searched to uncover the tremors Einstein believed were produced by waves in the fabric of space and time.

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Fast quantum computer building block created

Aug 20, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- The fastest quantum computer bit that exploits the main advantage of the qubit over the conventional bit has been demonstrated by researchers at University of Michigan, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and ...

Large Hadron Collider set to unveil a new world of particle physics

Aug 19, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- The field of particle physics is poised to enter unknown territory with the startup of a massive new accelerator--the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)--in Europe this summer. On September 10, LHC ...

Chemist Travels World to Study Mysterious Properties of Neutrinos

Aug 19, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet

In the quest to better understand one of nature's most "ghostly" elementary particles — the neutrino — scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are spreading their expertise from ...

Scientists Move Optical Computing Closer to Reality

Aug 19, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have theorized a way to increase the speed of pulses of light that bound across chains of tiny metal particles to well past the speed of light by altering the ...

Olympic Swimmers Shattering Records in NASA-Tested Suit

Aug 18, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Swimmers from around the world are setting world and Olympic records in Beijing this month and most are doing it wearing a swimsuit made of fabric tested at NASA.

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