 Physicists Demonstrate How Information Can Escape From Black Holes May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 78 vote(s)
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Physicists at Penn State have provided a mechanism by which information can be recovered from black holes, those regions of space where gravity is so strong that, according to Einstein's theory of general ... | |
Black holes not black after all May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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International scientists have used flowing water to simulate a black hole, testing Stephen Hawking's theory that black holes are not black after all. | |
New efficiency record for solar cells May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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Physicist Bram Hoex and colleagues at Eindhoven University of Technology, together with the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, have improved the efficiency of an important type of solar cell from 21.9 to 23.2 percent (a relative ... | |
 Quantum computers take step toward practicality with demonstration of new device May 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 61 vote(s)
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Computers based on the powerful properties of quantum mechanics have the potential to revolutionize information technology and security, but for decades they have remained more theoretical than practical, ... | |
 Possible Mechanism for Enormous Electromechanical Response May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators at Stony Brook University, Johns Hopkins University, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have ... | |
Argonne scientists use lasers to align molecules May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Protein crystallographers have only scratched the surface of the human proteins important for drug interactions because of difficulties crystallizing the molecules for synchrotron x-ray diffraction. | |
 First measurement of entangled states in nitrogen 22 hours ago | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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When atoms form molecules, they share their outer electrons and this creates a negatively charged cloud. Here, electrons buzz around between the two positively charged nuclei, making it impossible to tell ... | |
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