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Supercontinuum generation and soliton dynamics milestone achieved

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 1

A research team led by Fetah Benabid, University of Bath, has observed for the first time the simultaneous emission of two resonant dispersive waves by optical solitons (waves that maintain their shape while traveling at ...





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Making monster waves

Making monster waves

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Rogue waves -- giant waves that spring up suddenly and tower over the seas around them—have inspired physicists to look for an analogue in light. These high-intensity pulses can cross large distances without ...


Laser experiments reveal strange properties of superfluids

Laser experiments reveal strange properties of superfluids

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 22, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (28) | comments 0

Princeton University electrical engineers are using lasers to shed light on the behavior of superfluids -- strange, frictionless liquids that are difficult to create and study. Their technique allows them to ...


Research pinpoints conditions favorable for freak waves

Research pinpoints conditions favorable for freak waves

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stories of ships mysteriously sent to watery graves by sudden, giant waves have long puzzled scientists and sailors. New research by Assistant Professor of Geosciences Tim Janssen suggests ...


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Galaxy-Sized Observatory for Gravitational Waves

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers are making plans to create a galaxy-sized observatory to look for gravitational waves. The project is part of a joint effort with astronomers from Australia and Europe, who also ...


Scientist Wu Yi-min explains seismotic curves

Taiwan scientist develops earthquake alarm

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Taiwanese scientist has developed an earthquake alarm that could give people a crucial 15-second warning in case of a tremor, one of his team said Wednesday.


Rip currents pose greater risk to swimmers than to shoreline

Rip currents pose greater risk to swimmers than to shoreline

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rip currents -- powerful, channeled currents of water flowing away from the shore -- represent a danger to human life and property. Rip currents are responsible for more than one hundred deaths on our nation's ...


New way to track quakes

New way to track quakes

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Edinburgh scientists have developed a new technique to monitor movements beneath the Earth's surface.


Broadband invisibility in the microwave range

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the series Star Trek, Klingons and Romulans have spaceships outfitted with cloaking devices that hide their presence from sight, as well as from the sensors of their rivals' spaceships. Unlike current invisi ...


Leaving mobile phones near to a bee hive was found to have a catastrophic effect

Mobile phone towers a threat to honey bees: study

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 9

The electromagnetic waves emitted by mobile phone towers and cellphones can pose a threat to honey bees, a study published in India has concluded.


Sound waves save roads

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Every year roads are built and repaired to the tune of several billions. Intensive efforts are underway all over the world to get 'more road for your money' by developing better methods for both design and quality control ...



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