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Scientists directly measure charge states of atoms using an atomic force microscope

Scientists directly measure charge states of atoms using an atomic force microscope

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists in collaboration with the University of Regensburg, Germany, and Utrecht University, Netherlands, for the first time demonstrated the ability to measure the charge state of ...


Tuning in to a new language on the fly: Effects of context and seasonality on songbird brain

Biology /

created Aug 06, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Research conducted at Rutgers University has shown that exposure to a changed acoustic and social environment can rewire the way the brain processes sounds. Beginning in the cochlea of the inner ear, nerve cells of the auditory ...


Super-sensitive explosives detector can detect explosives at distances exceeding 20 yards

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 26, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Using a laser and a device that converts reflected light into sound, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory can detect explosives at distances exceeding 20 yards.





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Review: A riff on robotics with self-tuning guitar (AP)

Review: A riff on robotics with self-tuning guitar

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 5

(AP) -- New cars have been tuning themselves for the better part of two decades now, so it should feel less impressive that Gibson has built a guitar that can smoothly do the same.


Making quantum computing scalable

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 1 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum information processing is one of the hottest areas of science and technology right now. Making quantum information processing scalable is an important part of the efforts involved with regard to practical ...


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Fine-tuned: A wholly new approach to tuning a laser's frequency

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 30 years, scientists have been trying to harness the power of terahertz radiation. Tucked between microwaves and infrared rays on the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz rays ...


Light-speed nanotech: Controlling the nature of graphene

Light-speed nanotech: Controlling the nature of graphene

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a new method for controlling the nature of graphene, bringing academia and industry potentially one step closer to realizing the mass production ...


Math theories may hold clues to origin, future of life in universe

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (34) | comments 62

How did we get here and where are we headed? These are some of life's biggest questions. To get the answers, one Kansas State University professor is doing the math.


Intel Unveils Fastest Laptop Chips Ever With the New Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor

Intel Unveils Fastest Laptop Chips Ever With the New Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Intel Corporation introduced its revolutionary Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor and Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor Extreme Edition today, bringing Intel’s award-winning and super-fast Nehalem microarchitecture ...


Single photon detectors for telecommunications wavelengths

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 29, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (17) | comments 0 feature

Practically speaking, single photon detection has not been something pursued very heavily at the wavelengths used for telecommunication signals. Part of the problem is that performance of single photon detectors are rather ...


Physicists Turn to Radio Dial for Finer Atomic Matchmaking

Physicists Turn to Radio Dial for Finer Atomic Matchmaking

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Investigating mysterious data in ultracold gases of rubidium atoms, scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland ...


Researchers create all-electric spintronics

Researchers create all-electric spintronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 3

A multidisciplinary team of UC researchers is the first to find an innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means.


AMD 790GX Chipset - Energy Efficient

AMD Launches World's Fastest Motherboard GPU: AMD 790GX

Electronics / Hardware

created Aug 06, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (17) | comments 0

AMD today announced the availability of the industry’s preeminent performance desktop platform, the AMD 790GX. Packing a host of innovations, the AMD 790GX integrates advanced performance tuning for AMD Phenom ...



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