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Putting a spin on light and atoms: How to build a better magnetometer

Magnetometers come in many shapes and sizes - an ordinary hand-held compass is the simplest - but alkali-vapor magnetometers are extrasensitive devices that measure magnetic fields using light and atoms. They ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Of traffic jams, beach sands and the zero-temperature jamming transition

Researchers in condensed matter physics at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago have created an experimental and computer model to study how jamming, the physical process in which collections of particles ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Life Expectancy on the Rise -- Even for Quantum States

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists have succeeded in measuring and controlling the lifetime of quantum states with potential use in optoelectronic chips. This achievement is highly significant ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0




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Botox developer rues missing out on billions

Botox developer Alan Scott says he rues the day he handed over rights to the best-selling wrinkle-smoothing drug to a US company for just $4.5 million, saying he might have become a billionaire.

Medicine & Health / Medications

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Myths and shame keep many from seeking bankruptcy protection

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two interesting facts that may counter modern ideas about bankruptcy: The overwhelming majority of U.S. filings belong to individuals rather than corporations or entities, and most of these ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created 8 hours ago | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 7

Researchers illuminate link between sodium, calcium and heartbeat

Using the Canadian Light Source synchrotron, researchers from the University of British Columbia have revealed, for the first time, one of the molecular mechanisms that regulates the beating of heart cells by controlling ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created 1 hour ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Prolonged fructose intake not linked to rise in blood pressure

Eating fructose over an extended period of time does not lead to an increase in blood pressure, according to researchers at St. Michael's Hospital.

Medicine & Health / Health

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Neuroscientists link brain-wave pattern to energy consumption

Different brain states produce different waves of electrical activity, with the alert brain, relaxed brain and sleeping brain producing easily distinguishable electroencephalogram (EEG) patterns. These patterns ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physical activity yields feelings of excitement, enthusiasm

(Medical Xpress) -- People who are more physically active report greater levels of excitement and enthusiasm than people who are less physically active, according to Penn State researchers. People also are more likely to ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study shows how DNA finds its match

It's been more than 50 years since James Watson and Francis Crick showed that DNA is a double helix of two strands that complement each other. But how does a short piece of DNA find its match, out of the millions ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

All set and ready to glow

A new technique that paves the way for manufacturing affordable LED light bulbs is to be exploited in the UK, in a deal that researchers say could have a dramatic impact on carbon emissions.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Traumatic to be on a ventilator treatment while conscious

More and more people being cared for on ventilators are conscious during the treatment, but what is it like to be fully conscious without being able to communicate with the world around you? A thesis from ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Namaste, travelers! SFO opens airport yoga room

(AP) -- Stressed out by flying?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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