http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Search engine use is not just part of our daily routines; it is also becoming part of our learning process, according to Penn State researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news177852158.html Technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:24:16 EST news177852158 (PhysOrg.com) -- You can tell how smart a parrot is by watching what it does with its feet, according to a new study by Macquarie University researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news171555203.html Biology Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:15:10 EST news171555203 Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged atoms (ions). The new work, described in the August 6 issue of Science Express, overcomes significant hurdles in scaling up ion-trapping technology from small demonstrations to larger quantum processors. http://www.physorg.com/news168791155.html Physics Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:26:23 EST news168791155 Scientists at MIT have figured out a key step toward the design of quantum information networks. The results are reported in the July 20th issue of Physical Review Letters and highlighted in APS's on-line journal Physics. http://www.physorg.com/news167278799.html Physics Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:20:39 EST news167278799 Quantum technologies have become the Holy Grail of the IT industry with research projects springing up all over Europe. Now a major effort is being made to spur development by adopting a coordinated, structured approach. http://www.physorg.com/news166450015.html Technology Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:16:18 EST news166450015 A team led by Yale University researchers has created the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, taking another step toward the ultimate dream of building a quantum computer. http://www.physorg.com/news165418586.html Physics Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:37:16 EST news165418586 A team of physicists and engineers have demonstrated all-fibre quantum logic, where single photons are generated and used to perform the controlled-NOT quantum logic gate in optical fibres with high fidelity. http://www.physorg.com/news162736415.html Physics Thu, 28 May 2009 13:34:04 EST news162736415 (PhysOrg.com) -- "For certain tasks, quantum computers are more powerful than their classical counterparts. The task to be performed is the same for quantum or classical systems. However, the former ones can do it in a more efficient way," David Gross tells PhysOrg.com. "But we can`t pinpoint the exact reason why a quantum computer is more powerful. Until now, it has been accepted that the reason is entanglement. But entanglement is the easy answer, and we have discovered that it is not so simple." http://www.physorg.com/news162468404.html Physics Mon, 25 May 2009 11:07:15 EST news162468404 Eating fish -- long considered 'brain food' -- may really be good for the old grey matter, as is a healthy dose of sunshine, new research suggests. http://www.physorg.com/news162107255.html Medicine & Health Thu, 21 May 2009 06:48:14 EST news162107255 (PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to nonlocal correlations, some correlations are more nonlocal than others. As the subject of study for several decades, nonlocal correlations (for example, quantum entanglement) exist between two objects when they can somehow directly influence each other even when separated by a large distance. Because these correlations require `passion-at-a-distance` (a term coined by physicist Abner Shimony), they violate the principle of locality, which states that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light (even though quantum correlations cannot be used to communicate faster than the speed of light). Besides being a fascinating phenomenon, nonlocality can also lead to powerful techniques in computing, cryptography, and information processing. http://www.physorg.com/news160911231.html Physics Thu, 07 May 2009 10:34:35 EST news160911231 (Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- In the quest for quantum information processing, diamonds may be a physicist's best friend. http://www.physorg.com/news159024814.html Physics Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:37:09 EST news159024814 (PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated a new ion trap that enables ions to go through an intersection while keeping their cool. Ten million times cooler than in prior similar trips, in fact. The demonstration, described in a forthcoming paper in Physical Review Letters,* is a step toward scaling up trap technology to build a large-scale quantum computer using ions (electrically charged atoms), a potentially powerful machine that could perform certain calculations -such as breaking today`s best data encryption codes -much faster than today`s computers. http://www.physorg.com/news158417507.html Physics Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:52:14 EST news158417507 (PhysOrg.com) -- When physicists entangle light, they usually use nonlinear crystals as the source. However, it`s difficult to control the entanglement generation process in a bulk crystal, and so scientists have been looking for a more fundamental source of entangled light. Now, they may have found a candidate: Bose-Einstein condensates. http://www.physorg.com/news158408510.html Physics Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:22:27 EST news158408510 Recent commentary has suggested that the extent to which anomaly theories have become ingrained in the minds of academics and popular commentators alike has led to certain common assumptions and misconceptions about Clarke's pattern recognition theory of humour. http://www.physorg.com/news157294474.html Other Sciences Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:55:08 EST news157294474 (PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum information processing is one of the hottest areas of science and technology right now. Making quantum information processing scalable is an important part of the efforts involved with regard to practical quantum computing. `By tuning the gap of a superconducting qubit, we can allow different types of coupling for use in quantum information processing,` Hans Mooij tells PhysOrg.com. http://www.physorg.com/news156769523.html Physics Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:05:56 EST news156769523 Evolutionary theorist Alastair Clarke has today published details of eight patterns he claims to be the basis of all the humour that has ever been imagined or expressed, regardless of civilization, culture or personal taste. http://www.physorg.com/news156761595.html Other Sciences Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:56:06 EST news156761595 In macular degeneration, the most common form of adult blindness, patients progressively lose vision in the center of their visual field, thereby depriving the corresponding part of the visual cortex of input. Previously, researchers discovered that the deprived neurons begin responding to visual input from another spot on the retina - evidence of plasticity in the adult cortex. http://www.physorg.com/news155323109.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:19:28 EST news155323109 (PhysOrg.com) -- It is a truth universally acknowledged that quantum computing must have entanglement. http://www.physorg.com/news147698804.html Physics Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:26:44 EST news147698804 A more human approach to processing raw data could change the way that computers deal with information, according to academics at The University of Nottingham. http://www.physorg.com/news147449740.html Technology Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:15:40 EST news147449740