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De-multiplexing to the max: 640 Gbits/second

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Sliced light is how we communicate now. Millions of phone calls and cable television shows per second are dispatched through fibers in the form of digital zeros and ones formed by chopping laser pulses into bits. This slicing ...





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Microsoft apologizes for changing race in photo

Technology / Internet

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Software giant Microsoft Corp. is apologizing for altering a photo on its Web site to change the race of one of the people shown in the picture.


Dartmouth professor finds that iconic Oswald photo was not faked

Professor finds that iconic Oswald photo was not faked (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 72

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth Computer Scientist Hany Farid has new evidence regarding a photograph of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Farid, a pioneer in the field of digital forensics, digitally ...


Rome was built in a day, with hundreds of thousands of digital photos

Rome was built in a day, with hundreds of thousands of digital photos

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ancient city of Rome was not built in a day. It took nearly a decade to build the Colosseum, and almost a century to construct St. Peter's Basilica. But now the city, including these landmarks, ...


New NIST trace explosives standard slated for homeland security duty

New NIST trace explosives standard slated for homeland security duty

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Security personnel need to be able to find explosive materials and persons who have been in contact with them. To aid such searches, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, with support from the ...


Silicon Detector Validated, Moves Forward

Silicon Detector Validated, Moves Forward

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two of the three detector design concepts for the proposed next linear collider have been validated by the International Detector Advisory Group, and their conclusions endorsed by the International ...


Physicists Explain How Human Eyes Can Detect Quantum Effects

Physicists Explain How Human Eyes Can Detect Quantum Effects

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (46) | comments 19

(PhysOrg.com) -- By greatly amplifying one photon from an entangled photon pair, physicists have theoretically shown that human eyes can be used as detectors to observe quantum effects. Usually, detecting ...


Sharp Develops Solar Cell with World’s Highest Conversion Efficiency of 35.8%

Sharp Develops Solar Cell with World's Highest Conversion Efficiency of 35.8%

Technology / Energy

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 12

Sharp Corporation has achieved the world's highest solar cell conversion efficiency (for non-concentrator solar cells) of 35.8% using a triple-junction compound solar cell.


Mile-and-a-half Ice Hole at South Pole

Scientists build an 'ice top' at the bottom of the world

Physics / General Physics

created May 23, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (47) | comments 0

The University of Delaware is helping to build a huge "IceCube" at the South Pole, and it has nothing to do with cooling beverages.


Up-scale: Frequency converter enables ultra-high sensitivity infrared spectrometry

Up-scale: Frequency converter enables ultra-high sensitivity infrared spectrometry

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 2

In what may prove to be a major development for scientists in fields ranging from forensics to quantum communications, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a new, ...


Planck first light yields promising results

Planck first light yields promising results (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Planck, ESA's mission to study the early Universe, started surveying the sky regularly from its vantage point at L2 on 13 August. The instruments of ESA's 'time machine' were fine-tuned for ...



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