Ultra-Dense Optical Storage -- on One Photon
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Rochester have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image's worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image ...
IBM Extends Moore's Law to the Third Dimension
Apr 12, 2007 |
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IBM today announced a breakthrough chip-stacking technology in a manufacturing environment that paves the way for three-dimensional chips that will extend Moore’s Law beyond its expected limits. The technology ...
No Big Bang? Endless Universe Made Possible by New Model
Jan 30, 2007 |
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A new cosmological model demonstrates the universe can endlessly expand and contract, providing a rival to Big Bang theories and solving a thorny modern physics problem, according to University of North Carolina at Chapel ...
Scientists interpret physics behind invisibility cloaks
Aug 22, 2007 |
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Is a perfect invisible cloak theoretically possible? Are there certain wavelengths—such as those in the visible spectrum—that can’t be made invisible? How will using imperfect materials affect the performance ...
Radical 'Ballistic Computing' Chip Bounces Electrons Around Like Billiards
Aug 16, 2006 |
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Computer designers at the University of Rochester are going ballistic. "Everyone has been trying to make better transistors by modifying current designs, but what we really need is the next paradigm," says ...
What the Devil? Prince of Darkness Is Misunderstood, Says UCLA Professor
Aug 18, 2006 |
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He's not the enemy of God, his name really isn't Lucifer and he isn't even evil. And as far as leading Adam and Eve astray, that was a bad rap stemming from a case of mistaken identity.
Quantum telecloning: Captain Kirk's clone and the eavesdropper
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Feb 16, 2006 |
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Imagine Captain Kirk being beamed back to the Starship Enterprise and two versions of the Star Trek hero arriving in the spacecraft's transporter room. It happened 40 years ago in an episode of the TV science fiction classic, ...
The car that makes its own fuel
Oct 24, 2005 |
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A unique system that can produce Hydrogen inside a car using common metals such as Magnesium and Aluminum was developed by an Israeli company. The system solves all of the obstacles associated with the manufacturing, ...
Electron filmed for first time ever
Feb 22, 2008 |
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Now it is possible to see a movie of an electron. The movie shows how an electron rides on a light wave after just having been pulled away from an atom. This is the first time an electron has ever been filmed, ...
Einstein's green refrigerator making a comeback
Sep 25, 2008 |
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While almost everybody knows how Einstein revolutionized physics with his theories of relativity, many people may not know that the great scientist had a domestic side, too. Well, sort of - in 1930, Einstein ...
Researchers Create New Form of Matter
May 17, 2007 |
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Physicists at the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated a new form of matter that melds the characteristics of lasers with those of the world's best electrical conductors - superconductors.
Genetically engineered blood protein can be used to split water into oxygen and hydrogen
Dec 01, 2006 |
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Scientists have combined two molecules that occur naturally in blood to engineer a molecular complex that uses solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, says research published today in the Journal of ...
Intel Research Chip Advances 'Era Of Tera'
Feb 12, 2007 |
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Intel researchers have developed the world's first programmable processor that delivers supercomputer-like performance from a single, 80-core chip not much larger than the size of a finger nail while using ...
'The Matrix' is a step closer to reality; Neuroscientists break code on sight
Nov 04, 2005 |
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In the sci-fi movie "The Matrix," a cable running from a computer into Neo's brain writes in visual perceptions, and Neo's brain can manipulate the computer-created world. In reality, scientists cannot interact ...
Physicists Unite Light And Matter (Update)
Feb 07, 2007 |
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Physicists have for the first time stopped and extinguished a light pulse in one part of space and then revived it in a completely separate location. They accomplished this feat by completely converting the ...
