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Researchers Set New Distance Record for Quantum Key Distribution

Researchers Set New Distance Record for Quantum Key Distribution

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 4

(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 ...


Researchers unite to distribute quantum keys

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Researchers from across Europe have united to build the largest quantum key distribution network ever built. The efforts of 41 research and industrial organisations were realised as secure, quantum encrypted information ...





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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 ...


Sustainable interventions key to successful schistosomiasis control

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A decade after the conclusion of a schistosomiasis control program in Mali, prevalence of the disease had regressed to pre-intervention levels, according to a study published May 5 in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tr ...


Two for One: NIST Design Enables More Cost-Effective Quantum Key Distribution

Two for One: New Design Enables More Cost-Effective Quantum Key Distribution

Physics / General Physics

created May 29, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated a simpler and potentially lower-cost method for distributing strings of digits, or “keys,” for use in quantum cryptography, ...


Measuring Electron Orbitals

Measuring Electron Orbitals

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, it has been possible to measure electron density in individual molecular states using what is known as the photoelectric effect. Now published in Science, this method repres ...


Researchers Find Innate Correlations Among Different Power Law Phenomena

Researchers Find Innate Correlations Among Different Power Law Phenomena

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 18

(PhysOrg.com) -- Studying the patterns that emerge in natural and social phenomena is a popular area of research, although usually individual phenomena are studied separately from each other. In a recent study, ...


Siemens builds a lock made of light: Data transfer using quantum cryptography

Siemens builds a lock made of light: Data transfer using quantum cryptography

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic communication is becoming more secure all over the world. Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Austrian Research Centers (ARC) and Graz University of Technology have joined forces ...


NASA Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Passes Major Review

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's effort to deploy the first satellite mission to advance global precipitation observations from space moved closer to this goal when agency officials approved critical elements for the Global Precipitation ...


Vegas 'Quantum Spookshow' Demos On-the-Fly Encryption of Streaming Video

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 06, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Las Vegas shows often are on the cutting edge. Following this tradition, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have landed ...


Market based reforms have not harmed equity in the NHS, say researchers

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Recent NHS reforms, such as the introduction of patient choice and provider competition, have not had a deleterious impact on equity with respect to waiting times for elective surgery in England, concludes a study published ...


Researchers find animal with ability to survive climate change

Biology /

created Sep 24, 2008 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (14) | comments 12

Queen's researchers have found that the main source of food for many fish - including cod - in the North Atlantic appears to adapt in order to survive climate change.



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