Satellites approach the Shannon limit October 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Satellites are achieving unparalleled efficiency with a new protocol, DVB-S2. The performance of DVB-S2 satellite systems is very close to the theoretical maximum, defined by the Shannon Limit. That efficiency ... | |
 Microsoft Gets Patent for Patently Offensive Audio Content October 28, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft recently obtained a patent designed to create an | |
 Catching quakes with laptops October 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Inside your laptop is a small accelerometer chip, there to protect the delicate moving parts of your hard disk from sudden jolts. It turns out that the same chip is a pretty good earthquake sensor, too -- ... | |
In game of tennis, seeing isn't always believing October 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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A universal bias in the way people perceive moving objects means that tennis referees are more likely to make mistakes when they call balls "out" than when they call them "in," according to a new report in the October 28th ... | |
 Solar System's Young Twin Has Two Asteroid Belts October 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have discovered that the nearby star Epsilon Eridani has two rocky asteroid belts and an outer icy ring, making it a triple-ring system. The inner asteroid belt is a virtual twin ... | |
 Deterministic entanglement swapping: First successful implementation of a technique for quantum computers October 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 61 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists led by Rainer Blatt, Markus Hennrich and Mark Riebe of the Institute for Experimental Physics at Innsbruck University recently succeeded for the first time in realizing a deterministic ... | |
 Memoirs of a qubit: Hybrid memory solves key problem for quantum computing October 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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An international team of scientists has performed the ultimate miniaturisation of computer memory: storing information inside the nucleus of an atom. This breakthrough is a key step in bringing to life a quantum ... | |
 Denser computer chips possible with plasmonic lenses that 'fly' October 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) - Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, are reporting a new way of creating computer chips that could revitalize optical lithography, a patterning technique that dominates modern ... | |
 Weird dino rewrites the book on birds October 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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A tiny, egg-robbing dinosaur that lived more than 150 million years ago could help explain a key phase in the evolution of birds, scientists reported on Wednesday. | |
 And now, a new use for sticky tape... X-rays October 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 97 vote(s)
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Scotch tape is not only see-through, it can also see through, for the product can be used to take X-rays, bemused scientists say. | |
Scientists unlock secret of death protein's activation October 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified a previously undetected trigger point on a naturally occurring "death protein" that helps the body get rid of unwanted or diseased cells. They say it may be possible ... | |
Scientists find new genes linked to lung cancer October 22, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Working as part of a multi-institutional collaboration, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have assembled the most complete catalog to date of the genetic changes underlying the most common ... | |
Silencing a protein could kill T-Cells, reverse leukemia October 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Blocking the signals from a protein that activates cells in the immune system could help kill cells that cause a rare form of blood cancer, according to physicists and oncologists who combined computer modeling and molecular ... | |
 Computer Keyboard Hacking October 22, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Swiss researchers from the Security and Cryptography Laboratory have demonstrated different ways of eavesdropping on wired keyboards from at least 11 different models. The keyboards range ... | |
Physicists find a new state of matter in a 'transistor' October 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 128 vote(s)
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McGill University researchers have discovered a new state of matter, a quasi-three- dimensional electron crystal, in a material very much like those used in the fabrication of modern transistors. This discovery could have ... | |
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