Physicists investigate how time moves forward September 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 152 vote(s)
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As humans, we have a very intuitive concept of time, and of the differences between the past, present, and future. But, as scientists Edward Feng of the University of California, Berkeley, and Gavin Crooks of the Lawrence ... | |
Butterfly wings may help scientists better understand photonic crystals September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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As technology moves forward, many scientists are looking to nature to find inspiration for the development of advanced materials that can have a variety of practical applications. | |
Orienting Flow in Carbon Nanotubes September 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon nanotubes provide some of the most interesting possibilities for future technology. One of the more intriguing possibilities – with a variety of practical applications – is using carbon nanotubes for ... | |
 Physicists Rule Out the Production of Dangerous Black Holes at the LHC September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 90 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On August 8, the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, began the process of slowly throttling to full power. When its proton beams are circling ... | |
Single photon detectors for telecommunications wavelengths August 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Practically speaking, single photon detection has not been something pursued very heavily at the wavelengths used for telecommunication signals. Part of the problem is that performance of single photon detectors are rather ... | |
 Immaterial display allows viewers to handle 3D images in air August 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 80 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the future of immersive entertainment, people may not only walk through floating 3D images, but also manipulate the images in thin air. Taking a step toward this reality, researchers have ... | |
 'Single-Crystal' Superconductors are a Big Step for the Field August 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In key advances for the field of superconductivity, a research group has created versions of a class of widely studied superconducting compounds that are each one continuous crystal, rather ... | |
Entanglement without Classical Correlations August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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Quantum mechanics is full of counterintuitive concepts. The idea of entanglement – when two or more particles instantaneously exhibit dependent characteristics when measured, no matter how far apart they are – is one of them. ... | |
 Scientists identify quantum differences between light and heavy water August 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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Scientists know that light water (H2O) and heavy water (D2O) have similar but not identical structures. Using quantum mechanics, researchers have recently identified several differences ... | |
Operating quantum memory at room temperature August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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Quantum dots, along with quantum wires, have been attracting notice over the past decade as possible building blocks of quantum information processing. Indium arsenide quantum dots (InAs) can be used for memory operations ... | |
Physicists 'See' Single Top Quarks at the Tevatron August 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 76 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the world's largest fully operating particle accelerator, the Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Illinois, have discovered convincing evidence suggesting the existence ... | |
 Robots Detect Behavioral Cues to Follow Humans August 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Robots can be ironic. Even though they might not have emotions of their own, they can still detect and respond to humans’ emotions. A recent study has shown that, by picking up on human emotional traits, as ... | |
New immunization strategy could halve the doses for stopping computer virus spreading August 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Researchers have developed a new immunization strategy that requires up to 50% fewer immunization doses compared with the current most efficient strategy. The new strategy could be used to prevent the spread of human epidemics ... | |
Searching for a single-electron source of standard quantized current August 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “More than fifteen years ago, efforts were made to come to some kind of practical and standard realization of single-electron sources of quantized current. However, it was too difficult to combine the wanted ... | |
 Carbon Nanotube-Coated Electrodes Improve Brain Readouts August 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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A research group has significantly improved the quality of brain-function measurements by coating metal neural electrodes with carbon nanotubes. Their work could potentially allow scientists to learn more ... | |
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