A Critique of Shortsighted Anthropic Principles 16 hours ago | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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Many people marvel that we live in a universe that seems to be precisely tailored to suit the development of intelligent life. The observation is the basis for some forms of "Anthropic Principles" that strive to explain why ... | |
Snakes Hear in Stereo 16 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Physicists from the University Munich in Germany and the University of Topeka, Kansas have strong new evidence that snakes can hear through their jaws. Snakes don't have outer ears, leading to the myth that they can't hear ... | |
 A Smarter Way to Grow Graphene May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Graphene, a sheet of carbon just one atom thick, has many potential uses in the electronics industry, but producing these ideal two-dimensional carbon sheets is very difficult and, as a result, their use has ... | |
 Rochester's Omega Laser Receives 50-Fold Power Increase to Become 'Petawatt' Laser 17 hours ago | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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The University of Rochester will mark another important step in the effort toward attaining sustainable fusion, the ultimate source of clean energy, Friday, May 16. | |
 Physicists Demonstrate How Information Can Escape From Black Holes May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 81 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 ... | |
MIT Creates New Material For Fuel Cells, Increases Power Output By 50 Percent May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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MIT engineers have improved the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent through technology that could help these environmentally friendly energy storage devices find a much broader market, particularly ... | |
 First measurement of entangled states in nitrogen May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 24 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 ... | |
Precise Alignment to Quantum Dots May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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“Precise lithographic alignment to site-controlled quantum dots is of major importance for numerous nano-photonic, nano-electronic and nano-spintronic devices,” Sven Höfling tells PhysOrg.com. | |
 Research puts new wrinkle in study of materials folding under pressure May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Scientists at the University of Chicago and the University of Santiago in Chile have explained, for the first time, the physics that governs how thin materials at scales millions of times different in thickness ... | |
New efficiency record for solar cells May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 40 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 ... | |
Disorder Enables Extreme Sensitivity in Piezoelectric Materials May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has found an explanation for the extreme sensitivity to mechanical pressure or voltage of a special class of solid materials called relaxors. The ... | |
Finding the right soliton for future networks May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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European researchers say their study of self-sustaining solitary light wave packets could result in a new generation of computers and optical telecommunications networks. Using light rather than electronic or magnetic devices ... | |
 Researchers Observe Hydrogen-Bond Exchange May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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Hydrogen bonds are quite small, on the level of a few angstroms. They can also be passed between two different molecules very quickly, at speeds of tens of times per second. But in spite of these properties, ... | |
 Japanese swimsuit makers race Speedo May 14, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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A Japanese fabric maker says it has the secret to make the world's fastest-ever swimsuit as the country races against time to catch Speedo's high-tech, record-breaking LZR Racer suit. | |
Is quantum Internet search on the way? May 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 37 vote(s)
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In classical computing, random access memory (RAM) is needed to make things “work.” But it is subject to a certain level of energy loss. But what if you could create low-energy quantum access memory (QRAM) that would not ... | |
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