 Water forms floating 'bridge' when exposed to high voltage September 28, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 650 vote(s)
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While it's one of the most important and abundant chemical compounds on Earth, water is still a puzzle to scientists. Much research has been done to uncover the structure of water beyond the H2O ... | |
 Professor Predicts Human Time Travel This Century April 04, 2006 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 1313 vote(s)
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With a brilliant idea and equations based on Einstein’s relativity theories, Ronald Mallett from the University of Connecticut has devised an experiment to observe a time traveling neutron in a circulating ... | |
 Free-electron laser targets fat April 09, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 76 vote(s)
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Fat may have finally met its match: laser light. Researchers at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson ... | |
 Transistor laser functions as non-linear electronic switch, processor February 06, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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The transistor laser invented by scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has now been found to possess fundamental non-linear characteristics that are new to a transistor and permit its ... | |
Physicist to Present New Exact Solution of Einstein's Gravitational Field Equation February 11, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 964 vote(s)
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New antigravity solution will enable space travel near speed of light by the end of this century, he predicts.
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 How-to book published on laser beam-shaping applications October 27, 2005 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Following up on their well-received first book, Laser Beam Shaping: Theory and Techniques, Sandia National Laboratories researchers Fred Dickey and Scott Holswade have edited (with David Shealy of the ... | |
 Mathematician suggests extra dimensions are time-like April 17, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 539 vote(s)
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In a recent study, mathematician George Sparling of the University of Pittsburgh examines a fundamental question pondered since the time of Pythagoras, and still vexing scientists today: what is the nature ... | |
 Quantum computer solves problem, without running February 22, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 384 vote(s)
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By combining quantum computation and quantum interrogation, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found an exotic way of determining an answer to an algorithm – without ever running ... | |
 Space propulsion breakthrough: new spacecraft ion engine tested January 11, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 684 vote(s)
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The European Space Agency and the Australian National University have successfully tested a new design of spacecraft ion engine that dramatically improves performance over present thrusters and marks a major ... | |
 Light's Most Exotic Trick Yet: So Fast it Goes ... Backwards? May 11, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 344 vote(s)
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In the past few years, scientists have found ways to make light go both faster and slower than its usual speed limit, but now researchers at the University of Rochester have published a paper today in Science ... | |
 'Mach c'? Scientists observe sound traveling faster than the speed of light January 17, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 191 vote(s)
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For the first time, scientists have experimentally demonstrated that sound pulses can travel at velocities faster than the speed of light, c. William Robertson’s team from Middle Tennessee State University ... | |
 South Pole Neutrino Detector Could Yield Evidences of String Theory January 26, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 275 vote(s)
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Researchers at Northeastern University and the University of California, Irvine say that scientists might soon have evidence for extra dimensions and other exotic predictions of string theory. Early results ... | |
 A Two-Time Universe? Physicist Explores How Second Dimension of Time Could Unify Physics Laws May 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 330 vote(s)
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For a long time, Itzhak Bars has been studying time. More than a decade ago, the USC College physicist began pondering the role time plays in the basic laws of physics — the equations describing matter, gravity ... | |
 Self cleaning Lotus leaf imitated in plastic by using a femtosecond laser January 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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A plastic cup that can be reused without washing it, simply because contamination has no chance to stick to the surface? A self-cleaning surface like that of the leaf of a Lotus plant is ideal for many applications ... | |
New ‘Nuclear Battery’ Runs 10 Years, 10 Times More Powerful May 12, 2005 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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A battery with a lifespan measured in decades is in development at the University of Rochester, as scientists demonstrate a new fabrication method that in its roughest form is already 10 times more efficient than current ... | |
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