News tagged with communication
In quantum channels, zero plus zero can equal non-zero
Oct 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have discovered a strange characteristic of quantum communication channels. If two quantum channels each have a transmission capacity of zero, they may still have a nonzero capacity ...
Long-Lasting Quantum Memory Leads to Long-Distance Quantum Communication
Oct 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have taken a step closer to realizing long-distance quantum communication, in which a quantum state is transferred from one location to another by becoming entangled with a traveling ...
Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Today at SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, ...
Communicating person to person through the power of thought alone (w/ Video)
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 06, 2009 |
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New research from the University of Southampton has demonstrated that it is possible for communication from person to person through the power of thought alone.
Post-Quantum Correlations: Exploring the Limits of Quantum Nonlocality
May 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to nonlocal correlations, some correlations are more nonlocal than others. As the subject of study for several decades, nonlocal correlations (for example, quantum entanglement) ...
Ulysses space mission to end
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 26, 2009 |
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After 18.6 years in space and defying several earlier expectations of its demise, the joint ESA/NASA solar orbiter Ulysses will achieve 'end of mission' on 30 June 2009. The final communication pass with a ...
Researchers Set New Distance Record for Quantum Key Distribution
Jul 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum key distribution (QKD) could be the next commercial success of quantum physics, and a recent study has taken the field a step closer to this reality. Researchers from the University ...
This article will self-destruct: A tool to make online personal data vanish (w/ Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Computers have made it virtually impossible to leave the past behind. College Facebook posts or pictures can resurface during a job interview. A lost cell phone can expose personal photos or text messages. ...
Efforts to save endangered languages
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- There are an estimated 6,500 languages in the world, with around fifty percent of them endangered and likely to cease to exist by 2100, but efforts are now being made to save them from extinction.
Robots Reveal Insights into Evolution
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In an ironic twist to our understanding of life, robots may offer a greater degree of realism for studying some of the intricacies of natural selection and evolution than real organisms offer. ...
House cats know what they want and how to get it from you
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Anyone who has ever had cats knows how difficult it can be to get them to do anything they don't already want to do. But it seems that the house cats themselves have had distinctly less trouble getting humans ...
Viterbi Algorithm goes quantum
Jul 31, 2008 |
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The Viterbi Algorithm, the elegant 41-year-old logical tool for rapidly eliminating dead end possibilities in data transmission, has a new application to go alongside its ubiquitous daily use in cell phone ...
New concept may enhance Earth-Mars communication
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Direct communication between Earth and Mars can be strongly disturbed and even blocked by the Sun for weeks at a time, cutting off any future human mission to the Red Planet. An ESA engineer working with engineers ...
Straightening messy correlations with a quantum comb
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Quantum computing promises ultra-fast communication, computation and more powerful ways to encrypt sensitive information. But trying to use quantum states as carriers of information is an extremely delicate ...
'Masters of light' win Nobel Physics Prize
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith won the 2009 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for pioneering "masters of light" work on fibre optics and semiconductors, the Nobel jury said.
