New type of liquid crystal identified; Holds promise of faster, lower priced liquid crystal displays

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A new type of liquid crystal - recently discovered by a research team that includes a Kent State University professor - holds the promise of faster liquid crystal displays at a lower price.

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'Single-Crystal' Superconductors are a Big Step for the Field

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(PhysOrg.com) -- In key advances for the field of superconductivity, a research group has created versions of a class of widely studied superconducting compounds that are each one continuous crystal, rather ...

Scientists reveal effects of quantum 'traffic jam' in high-temperature superconductors

Aug 27, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues at Cornell University, Tokyo University, the University of California, Berkeley, ...

Entanglement without Classical Correlations

Aug 27, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet

Quantum mechanics is full of counterintuitive concepts. The idea of entanglement – when two or more particles instantaneously exhibit dependent characteristics when measured, no matter how far apart they are – is one of them. ...

Japanese physicists aim to unlock universe's mysteries

Aug 27, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet

As the world's scientists try to unzip mysteries about the universe, Japan is set to open its largest atomic science park to study the world at its smallest level.

First particles observed in Large Hadron Collider

Aug 26, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Glasgow scientists, working at CERN, have observed the first particles in the Large Hadron Collider during preliminary tests ahead of the switch-on next month.

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