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Sub-atomic-scale Writing Using a Quantum Hologram Sets New Size Record

Sub-atomic-scale Writing Using a Quantum Hologram Sets New Size Record (Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have set a new world record for the smallest writing, with features of letters as small as 0.3 nanometers, or roughly one third of a billionth of a meter. The accomplishment demonstrates ...


Improved Volumetric Displays May Lead to 3D Computer Monitors

Improved Volumetric Displays May Lead to 3D Computer Monitors

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (24) | comments 7 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Volumetric 3D displays have been around for nearly a century, but they face several challenges that have prevented their use in widespread applications. Recently, a team of researchers from ...


Japanese Public Broadcasting Envisions 3D Future

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created Aug 25, 2005 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 feature

Japan’s national public broadcasting authority, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), is pursuing a Super Hi-Vision 3D television. NHK’s research has centered on the integral imaging (II) technique for creating 3D television. This ...


Computer scientists develop solutions for long-term storage of digital data

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 21, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (15) | comments 4

Although the digital age is well under way, one crucial detail remains to be worked out--how to store vast amounts of digital information in a way that allows future generations to recover it.


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 ...


Four PNNL Innovative Technologies Honored With the 'Oscars of Technology'

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created Jul 20, 2004 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been honored with three Research and Development 100 Awards for 2004, while four additional PNNL researchers share an Research and Development 100 Award with Battelle for their work ...


Researchers identify and shut down makers of fake anti-malarial medications

Researchers identify and shut down makers of fake anti-malarial medications

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 13, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers were part of a three-continent, multi-organizational effort known as “Operation Jupiter” that successfully identified and shut down manufacturers who were flooding ...


'Edible optics' could make food safer

Chemistry /

created Aug 07, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (20) | comments 0

Imagine an edible optical sensor that could be placed in produce bags to detect harmful levels of bacteria and consumed right along with the veggies. Or an implantable device that would monitor glucose in your blood for ...


Exotic physics finds black holes could be most 'perfect,' low-viscosity fluid

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created Mar 21, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In three spatial dimensions, it is a close relative of the quark-gluon plasma, the super-hot state of matter that hasn't existed since the tiniest fraction of a second after the big bang that started the universe. When viewe ...


Satellite Remote-Sensing Method Hatches New Cell-Analysis System

Satellite Remote-Sensing Method Hatches New Cell-Analysis System

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created May 24, 2006 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Using the same "multispectral analysis" concept that enables satellites to study Earth's surface, Purdue University researchers have developed a new system that quickly determines the composition of cells and ...


New lensless imaging technique opens door to nanoscale world

Nanotechnology /

created Jan 12, 2005 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) and the German laboratory Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung (BESSY) have crafted a technique to take X-ray images that ...


Samsung Initiates Construction for FAB Expansion to Introduce New Capacity for Next Generation Nano-Scale Memory Technol

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created Jul 25, 2004 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor memory technology, today broke ground on the second stage of the expansion of its Austin memory chip fabrication plant.The 34,000 square foot expansion of it ...


Cosmologists expose flaws in anthropic reasoning

Cosmologists expose flaws in anthropic reasoning

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 28, 2006 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (81) | comments 0 feature

Many scientists never liked it anyway, and now Glenn Starkman from Oxford/Case Western and Roberto Trotta from Oxford show that too many details—and too many unknowns—mean that anthropic reasoning gives inconsistent ...


Researcher makes quantum leap into new technology

Nanotechnology /

created Sep 21, 2004 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new University of Queensland research project could lead to improved internal computer network security at banks and financial institutions. Dr Andrew White of UQ’s School of Physical Sciences said quantum cryptography was o ...