New Nanocoating Is Virtual Black Hole for Reflections
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 01, 2007 |
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A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created the world’s first material that reflects virtually no light. Reporting in the March issue of Nature Photonics, they describe an optica ...
No strong link seen between violent video games and aggression
Aug 11, 2005 |
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Results from the first long-term study of online videogame playing may be surprising. Contrary to popular opinion and most previous research, the new study found that players' "robust exposure" to a highly violent online gam ...
Physicists establish 'spooky' quantum communication
Sep 05, 2007 |
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Physicists at the University of Michigan have coaxed two separate atoms to communicate with a sort of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein called "spooky."
Researchers Prove Existence of New Basic Element for Electronic Circuits -- 'Memristor'
Apr 30, 2008 |
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HP today announced that researchers from HP Labs have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering.
Researchers discover gene that blocks HIV
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 29, 2008 |
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A team of researchers at the University of Alberta has discovered a gene that is able to block HIV, and in turn prevent the onset of AIDS.
Sonofusion Experiment Produces Results Without External Neutron Source
Physics /
Jan 27, 2006 |
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A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Purdue University, and the Russian Academy of Sciences has used sound waves to induce nuclear fusion without the need for an external neutron source, according ...
Nanowire battery holds 10 times the charge of existing ones
Dec 18, 2007 |
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Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices.
Physicists Predict Stock Market Crashes
Physics /
Feb 24, 2006 |
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On Monday, October 19, 1987 – infamously known as “black Monday” – the Dow fell 508 points, or 22.9%, marking the largest crash in history. Using an analytical approach similar to the one applied to explore ...
Professor proposes theory of unparticle physics
Jun 11, 2007 |
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Howard Georgi, a physicist at Harvard University, has recently published a paper on so-called unparticle physics, which suggests the existence of “unparticle stuff” that cannot be accounted for by the standard ...
Study of 'Solitons' Adds Insight into Nanomagnet Behavior
Feb 02, 2006 |
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Scientists are a long way off from a complete understanding of the interactions and behaviors that govern nanomagnets — magnets on the scale of a billionth of a meter. However, a groundbreaking new study helps ...
Alternative theory of gravity explains large structure formation -- without dark matter
Dec 14, 2006 |
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In the standard theory of gravity—general relativity—dark matter plays a vital role, explaining many observations that the standard theory cannot explain by itself. But for 70 years, cosmologists have never ...
The Dark Side of Light
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Light may not seem very interesting in our everyday lives. But to scientists, light’s properties are a constant source of intrigue. The nature of light as both wave and particle, light as the universal speed ...
Researchers Look Beyond the Birth of the Universe
May 12, 2006 |
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According to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the Big Bang represents The Beginning, the grand event at which not only matter but space-time itself was born. While classical theories offer no clues ...
'Air shower' set to cut water use by 30 percent
Nov 09, 2006 |
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As Australians become increasingly alert to the importance of using water wisely in the home, CSIRO researchers have found a way to use a third less water when you shower – by adding air.
'It might be life Jim...', physicists discover inorganic dust with life-like qualities
Aug 09, 2007 |
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Could extraterrestrial life be made of corkscrew-shaped particles of interstellar dust? Intriguing new evidence of life-like structures that form from inorganic substances in space are revealed today in the New Journal of ...
