News tagged with states
Researchers make milestone discovery in quantum mechanics
Aug 05, 2008 |
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Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have recently reached what they are calling a milestone in experimental quantum mechanics.
Polls may underestimate Obama's support by 3 to 4 percent, researchers say
Oct 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Current polls of the presidential election may be underestimating Barack Obama's support by 3 to 4 percent nationally and possibly larger margins in the Southeast and some strongly Republican states, according ...
Energy secretary: Islands could disappear
Apr 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is warning that if countries don't do something about climate change, "some island states will simply disappear."
Historian predicts the end of 'science superpowers'
Jul 23, 2008 |
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Is the sun beginning to set on America's scientific dominance? Much like the scientific superpowers of France, Germany and Britain in centuries' past, the United States has a diminishing lead over other nations in financial ...
In the warming West, climate most significant factor in fanning wildfires' flames
Jun 26, 2009 |
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The recent increase in area burned by wildfires in the Western United States is a product not of higher temperatures or longer fire seasons alone, but a complex relationship between climate and fuels that varies among different ...
For nano, religion in US dictates a wary view
Dec 07, 2008 |
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When it comes to the world of the very, very small — nanotechnology — Americans have a big problem: Nano and its capacity to alter the fundamentals of nature, it seems, are failing the moral litmus test of religion.
Getting many quantum states from one experimental setup
Jul 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “In the traditional approach to entanglement with linear optics, one designs a new setup for each single state that you want,” Witlef Wieczorek tells PhysOrg.com. “What we’ve done is to mak ...
Graphene Yields Secrets to Its Extraordinary Properties
May 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Applying innovative measurement techniques, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have directly measured the unusual energy ...
World's biggest computing grid launched
Oct 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s largest computing grid is ready to tackle mankind’s biggest data challenge from the earth’s most powerful accelerator. Today, three weeks after the first particle beams were injected ...
New concept for creating quantum states in many-body systems
Sep 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the online edition of Nature Physics, theoretical physicists from the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) and the University of Innsbruck today are presenting a compl ...
A single boulder may prove that Antarctica and North America were once connected
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 17, 2008 |
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A lone granite boulder found against all odds high atop a glacier in Antarctica may provide additional key evidence to support a theory that parts of the southernmost continent once were connected to North ...
Silent streams? Escalating endangerment for North American freshwater fish
Sep 09, 2008 |
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Nearly 40 percent of fish species in North American streams, rivers and lakes are now in jeopardy, according to the most detailed evaluation of the conservation status of freshwater fishes in the last 20 years.
Manipulating light on a chip for quantum technologies
Jun 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists and engineers at Bristol University has demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light — photons — on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards long-sought-after ...
More flexible method floated to produce biofuels, electricity
Oct 14, 2008 |
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Researchers are proposing a new "flexible" approach to producing alternative fuels, hydrogen and electricity from municipal solid wastes, agricultural wastes, forest residues and sewage sludge that could supply up to 20 percent ...
Record high temperatures far outpace record lows across US (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows. The ratio of record highs ...
