Scientist float levitation theory

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St Andrews scientists have discovered a new way of levitating tiny objects - paving the way for future applications in nanotechnology.


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Scientists discover quantum mechanical 'hurricanes' form spontaneously

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University of Arizona scientists experimenting with some of the coldest gases in the universe have discovered that when atoms in the gas get cold enough, they can spontaneously spin up into what might be described ...

First Tunable, ‘Noiseless’ Amplifier May Boost Quantum Computing, Communications

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder, have made the first tunable “noiseless” ...

Einstein's relativity survives neutrino test

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Physicists working to disprove "Lorentz invariance" -- Einstein's prediction that matter and massless particles will behave the same no matter how they're turned or how fast they go -- won't get that satisfaction from muon ...

New recipe for self-healing plastic includes dash of food additive

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Adding a food additive to damaged polymers can help restore them to full strength, say scientists at the University of Illinois who cooked up the novel, self-healing system.

The Day the World Didn't End

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Here's what didn't happen on Sept. 10th:
The world did not end. Switching on the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland, did not trigger the creation of a microscopic ...
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