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Making quantum cryptography practical

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Quantum cryptography, a completely secure means of communication, is much closer to being used practically as researchers from Toshiba and Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory have now developed high speed detectors ...





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New tool in the fight against mosquito-borne disease: A microbial 'mosquito net'

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Earlier this year, researchers showed that they could cut the lives of disease-carrying mosquitoes in half by infecting them with a bacterium they took from fruit flies. Now, a new report in the December 24th issue of Cell, ...


Marketing Researcher Takes on Human Decision Making Process

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by Jesper Nielsen, a UA marketing professor and his colleague are shedding light on why people decide to avoid or gravitate to a consumer product.


Scientists discover 2 genes that drive aggressive brain cancers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of Columbia scientists have discovered two genes that, when simultaneously activated, are responsible for the most aggressive forms of human brain cancer.


Shallow Origins

Shallow Origins

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 3

In finding answers to the mystery of the origin of life, scientists may not have to dig too deep. New research is shedding light on shallower waters as a possible location for where life on Earth began.


How do you improve mammogram accuracy? Add noise

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Members of a Syracuse University research team have shown that an obscure phenomenon called stochastic resonance (SR) can improve the clarity of signals in systems such as radar, sonar and even radiography, used in medical ...


Researchers crack part of the neuronal code

Researchers crack part of the neuronal code

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Prostheses for paralysed patients, communication with patients who have lost all capacity for normal communication - the hopes for modern brain research are high. However, such brain-machine ...


Financial instruments could be spiked with unfindable risks

Financial instruments could be spiked with unfindable risks

Other Sciences / Economics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 42

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a result that may have implications for financial regulation, researchers from computer science and economics have revealed potentially impenetrable problems with the pricing of financial ...


Study casts doubt on provocative tuberculosis theory

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The tuberculosis bacterium is an insidious germ that can lie dormant for many years, then suddenly emerge and cause potentially fatal disease.


More precise measurements of the W boson

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (19) | comments 5 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- "The W boson is one of the very few major building blocks of matter," Dmitri Denisov tells PhysOrg.com. "It is a member of a family of particles that is the most fundamental in nature. The W boson is res ...


Mystery of golden ratio explained

Researcher explains mystery of golden ratio

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (24) | comments 8

The Egyptians supposedly used it to guide the construction the Pyramids. The architecture of ancient Athens is thought to have been based on it. Fictional Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon tried to unravel ...



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