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Proposed Spacetime Structure Could Provide Hints for Quantum Gravity Theory

Proposed Spacetime Structure Could Provide Hints for Quantum Gravity Theory

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (55) | comments 16 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Spacetime, which consists of three dimensions of space and one time dimension, is such a large, abstract concept that scientists have a very difficult time understanding and defining it. Moreover, ...


Security ID cards with built-in holograms

Security ID cards with built-in holograms (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plastic cards with security features are ubiquitous these days, having a wide variety of uses such as credit cards, employee cards, licenses, and so on. Many have holographic images, but they ...


Scientists guide immune cells with light and microparticles

Scientists guide immune cells with light and microparticles (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A team led by Yale University scientists has developed a new approach to studying how immune cells chase down bacteria in our bodies. Their findings are described in the November 15 issue of Nature Methods Advanc ...


Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms

Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, ...


What Comes After Hard Drives?

What Comes After Hard Drives?

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (36) | comments 36 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to store and retrieve data is an important component of today's computers, as well as other modern electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles, and camcorders. ...


New research brings 'invisible' into view

New research brings 'invisible' into view (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology has developed a handheld camera that uses microwave signals to non-destructively peek inside materials and structures ...


ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOW GOLD

All That Glitters Is Now Gold

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In full sunlight at mid-day, gold objects are brilliant and richly colored. Put those same objects in a dark interior room with only fluorescent lamps, however, and they will look pale and ...


Holographic Disk

GE Shows Off 1TB DVD-Sized Disks at the Emerging Tech Conference

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 15 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the September '09 Emerging Tech Conference in Boston, GE announced it has been developing a 1TB DVD size disk that can be read by a modified Blu-ray player.


Proposed Quantum Computer Consists of Billions of Electron Spins

Proposed Quantum Computer Consists of Billions of Electron Spins

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 23 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- While researchers have already demonstrated the building blocks for few-bit quantum computers, scaling these systems up to large quantum computers remains a challenge. One of the biggest problems ...


Research Team Designing Holographic Imaging System for Ovarian Cancer

Research Team Designing Holographic Imaging System for Ovarian Cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two University of Arizona researchers have formed a research team to design, build and evaluate two versions of an ovarian cancer medical imaging and screening instrument that will use holographic components ...


Barcodes for the rest of us: Tiny labels could pack lots of information

Barcodes for the rest of us: Tiny labels could pack lots of information (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ubiquitous barcodes found on product packaging provide information to the scanner at the checkout counter, but that's about all they do. Now, researchers at the Media Lab have come up ...


Physicists find way to explore microscopic systems through holographic video

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Physicists at New York University have developed a technique to record three-dimensional movies of microscopic systems, such as biological molecules, through holographic video. The work, which is reported in Optics Express, has po ...


Explosives prevent technology theft

Explosives prevent technology theft

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Product piracy causes billions worth of damage worldwide. A combination of visible and invisible copy protection is really effective against this. Explosive embossing is an economical procedure and can be ...


No more geeky glasses to watch 3D

No more geeky glasses to watch 3D (w/Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 7

Most people’s experience with 3D involves wearing tinted glasses in a cinema. But a new technology, which does not require glasses and may enable 3DTV, is being developed by European researchers.


A laptop with an HD DVD reader

All your movies on a single DVD: study

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (32) | comments 9

Scientists unveiled new DVD technology on Wednesday that stores data in five dimensions, making it possible to pack more than 2,000 movies onto a single disc.