 Controversy-plagued superheavy element 118 finally created October 16, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 102 vote(s)
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Element 118 has been indirectly discovered in experiments conducted at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, Russia by a collaboration of researchers from Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear ... | |
Time to overhaul Newton's theory of gravitation? Galaxy cluster models cast doubt on dark matter October 31, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 105 vote(s)
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For almost 75 years, astronomers have believed that the Universe has a large amount of unseen or ‘dark’ matter, thought to make up about five-sixths of the matter in the cosmos. With the conventional theory of gravitation, ... | |
 Physicists Build Unparticle Models Guided by Big Bang and Supernovae October 17, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 65 vote(s)
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Cosmology and astrophysics may help guide physicists in building a model of “unparticles,” a newly proposed sector of physics. Recently, Hooman Davoudiasl of Brookhaven National Laboratory has investigated ... | |
 Scientists discover exotic quantum state of matter April 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 80 vote(s)
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A team of scientists from Princeton University has found that one of the most intriguing phenomena in condensed-matter physics -- known as the quantum Hall effect -- can occur in nature in a way that no one ... | |
 Scientists Construct Model of the World Wide Web April 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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Although the Internet contains well over 100 million Web sites, two electrical engineers think they know what the traffic patterns of the entire Web look like. | |
Information Storage in Three Dimensions March 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 105 vote(s)
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For the first time, researchers have successfully turned a glass material into three-dimensional information storage using a light-based technique. This achievement may be a big step forward for the real-life implementation ... | |
Physicists Demonstrate Qubit-Qutrit Entanglement February 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 89 vote(s)
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For the first time, physicists have entangled a qubit with a “qutrit” – the 3D version of the 2D qubit. Qubit-qutrit entanglement could lead to advantages in quantum computing, such as increased security and more efficient ... | |
Scientists create darkest material January 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 97 vote(s)
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A scientist at a Houston university has created the darkest known material -- about four times darker than the previous record holder. | |
Physicists perform the first ever quantum calculation December 11, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 77 vote(s)
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University of Queensland researchers are part of an international team to have made the first ever execution of a quantum calculation, a major step towards building the first quantum computers. | |
 Scientists make first observation of Airy optical beams November 29, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 90 vote(s)
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Scientists have made the first observation of an unusual class of optical waves called Airy beams. Unlike most types of light waves, Airy beams have the ability to resist diffraction over long distances, and ... | |
Entanglement Swapping: A New Quantum Trick October 11, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 68 vote(s)
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In an important step for the infant field of quantum communications, researchers from the University of Geneva in Switzerland have, for the first time, realized an “entanglement swapping” experiment with photon pairs emitted ... | |
Practical Cloaking Devices On The Horizon? August 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Invisibility cloaks get a step closer to realization, with the demonstration of a new material that can bend (visible) light the 'wrong' way for the first time in three dimensions. | |
 Liquid Crystals Slow Light Pulses to a Snail's Pace June 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 96 vote(s)
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In a vacuum, the speed of a light pulse is always a constant at 186,000 miles (300,000 km) per second. But by changing the medium through which light travels, physicists can slow down light pulses, and possibly ... | |
New-School 'Aether' May Shed Light on Neutron Stars October 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 75 vote(s)
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Among scientists, it is widely believed that there is no such thing as an aether – a medium pervading all space that allows light waves to propagate, similar to how sound needs air or water – but a part of its spirit may ... | |
 Dark matter hides, physicists seek November 28, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 58 vote(s)
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Scientists don't know what dark matter is, but they know it's all over the universe. Everything humans observe in the heavens—galaxies, stars, planets and the rest—makes up only 4 percent of the universe, scientists ... | |
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