 Skipping Atomic-scale Stones to Study Some Chemistry Basics August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Thought experiment: a carbon dioxide molecule—think of a cheerleader’s baton—comes slanting in at high speed over a dense liquid, strikes the surface and ricochets. How does it tumble? Fast or slow? Forward, ... | |
Compressor-free refrigerator may loom in the future 6 hours ago | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Refrigerators and other cooling devices may one day lose their compressors and coils of piping and become solid state, according to Penn State researchers who are investigating electrically induced heat effects of some ferroelectric ... | |
Vegas 'Quantum Spookshow' Demos On-the-Fly Encryption of Streaming Video August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Las Vegas shows often are on the cutting edge. Following this tradition, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have landed ... | |
 New Technique Reveals Hidden Properties of Ultracold Atomic Gases August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have demonstrated a powerful new technique that reveals ... | |
 Now That's Cool: Engineers Out to Thaw the Mysteries of Ice 6 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Ye canna change the laws of physics!" Scotty warned Captain Kirk on Star Trek. But engineers and physicists at the University of Maryland may rewrite one of them. | |
First neutrons created at the ISIS Second Target Station August 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The UK's ISIS Second Target Station Project moved a major step closer to completion today when the first neutrons were created in the ISIS Second Target Station. After five years of planning and construction, the first neutrons ... | |
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