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Detector can count atom by atom Physics / Physics August 10, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 53 vote(s) \| No comments yet More than 80 years have passed since Louis de Broglie discovered that matter can act like a wave as well as a particle. With advances in technology, scientists have recently begun exploiting this strange property ...

Protein-Nanoparticle Material Mimics Human Brain Tissue Physics / Materials July 21, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 31 vote(s) \| No comments yet A composite material consisting of a horse protein and metallic nanoparticles displays magnetic properties very similar to those of human brain tissue, scientists have found. The work, published in the June 20 online edition ...

The Physics of Friendship Physics March 10, 2006 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 156 vote(s) \| No comments yet By comparing people to mobile particles randomly bouncing off each other, scientists have developed a new model for social networks. The model fits with empirical data to naturally reproduce the community ...

Tick Tock: Who Needs an Atomic Clock? Physics March 08, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 23 vote(s) \| No comments yet “Last year the Nobel Prize recognized the significance of this field with John Hall and Theodor Hänsch,” says Chris Oates of studying optical atomic clocks. “There are a lot of new ideas coming out, and we ...

Japanese Device Uses Laser Plasma to Display 3D Images in the Air Physics February 27, 2006 \| User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 435 vote(s) \| User comments: 2 A collaboration of the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Keio University and Burton Inc. has produced a device to display "real 3D images" consisting of dot arrays ...

Hitching a Ride Out of a Gluttonous Black Hole Physics February 25, 2006 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 82 vote(s) \| No comments yet “Ever since Stephen Hawking showed that black holes evaporate,” says Seth Lloyd, an MIT physicist, “people have wondered about the stuff that comes out of them. Is it just garbage, or is it something else?” ...

Physicists Predict Stock Market Crashes Physics February 24, 2006 \| User rating: 4 / 5 after 217 vote(s) \| No comments yet On Monday, October 19, 1987 – infamously known as “black Monday” – the Dow fell 508 points, or 22.9%, marking the largest crash in history. Using an analytical approach similar to the one applied to explore ...

Einstein Equations Physics February 16, 2006 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 72 vote(s) \| No comments yet Throughout the years mathematicians and physicists have been finding various solutions to Einstein’s equations. These solutions have helped scientists better understand the nature of our cosmos, as well develop ...

How foamy is spacetime? Physics February 10, 2006 \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 97 vote(s) \| No comments yet Maybe not as foamy as some scientists thought, as a fresh look at a quasar first observed in 1998 by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) shows. Physicists observed a diffraction pattern called an Airy ring around ...

'Phonon Hall Effect' Observed Physics October 23, 2005 \| User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 12 vote(s) \| No comments yet What effect do magnetic fields have on uncharged particles? Their effect on charged particles is familiar to every student of physics or electrical engineering. A common example is the Hall Effect, a basic phenomenon ...

'Single-Crystal' Superconductors are a Big Step for the Field Physics / Physics 14 hours ago \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- In key advances for the field of superconductivity, a research group has created versions of a class of widely studied superconducting compounds that are each one continuous crystal, rather ...

Entanglement without Classical Correlations Physics / Physics August 27, 2008 \| User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 49 vote(s) \| User comments: 16 Quantum mechanics is full of counterintuitive concepts. The idea of entanglement – when two or more particles instantaneously exhibit dependent characteristics when measured, no matter how far apart they are – is one of them. ...

Scientists identify quantum differences between light and heavy water Physics / Physics August 26, 2008 \| User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 44 vote(s) \| User comments: 16 Scientists know that light water (H₂O) and heavy water (D₂O) have similar but not identical structures. Using quantum mechanics, researchers have recently identified several differences ...

Operating quantum memory at room temperature Physics / Physics August 25, 2008 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 38 vote(s) \| User comments: 1 Quantum dots, along with quantum wires, have been attracting notice over the past decade as possible building blocks of quantum information processing. Indium arsenide quantum dots (InAs) can be used for memory operations ...

Physicists 'See' Single Top Quarks at the Tevatron Physics / Physics August 22, 2008 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 74 vote(s) \| User comments: 8 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the world's largest fully operating particle accelerator, the Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Illinois, have discovered convincing evidence suggesting the existence ...

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Detector can count atom by atom Physics / Physics August 10, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 53 vote(s) \| No comments yet More than 80 years have passed since Louis de Broglie discovered that matter can act like a wave as well as a particle. With advances in technology, scientists have recently begun exploiting this strange property ...

Protein-Nanoparticle Material Mimics Human Brain Tissue Physics / Materials July 21, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 31 vote(s) \| No comments yet A composite material consisting of a horse protein and metallic nanoparticles displays magnetic properties very similar to those of human brain tissue, scientists have found. The work, published in the June 20 online edition ...

The Physics of Friendship Physics March 10, 2006 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 156 vote(s) \| No comments yet By comparing people to mobile particles randomly bouncing off each other, scientists have developed a new model for social networks. The model fits with empirical data to naturally reproduce the community ...

Tick Tock: Who Needs an Atomic Clock? Physics March 08, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 23 vote(s) \| No comments yet “Last year the Nobel Prize recognized the significance of this field with John Hall and Theodor Hänsch,” says Chris Oates of studying optical atomic clocks. “There are a lot of new ideas coming out, and we ...

Japanese Device Uses Laser Plasma to Display 3D Images in the Air Physics February 27, 2006 \| User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 435 vote(s) \| User comments: 2 A collaboration of the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Keio University and Burton Inc. has produced a device to display "real 3D images" consisting of dot arrays ...

Hitching a Ride Out of a Gluttonous Black Hole Physics February 25, 2006 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 82 vote(s) \| No comments yet “Ever since Stephen Hawking showed that black holes evaporate,” says Seth Lloyd, an MIT physicist, “people have wondered about the stuff that comes out of them. Is it just garbage, or is it something else?” ...

Physicists Predict Stock Market Crashes Physics February 24, 2006 \| User rating: 4 / 5 after 217 vote(s) \| No comments yet On Monday, October 19, 1987 – infamously known as “black Monday” – the Dow fell 508 points, or 22.9%, marking the largest crash in history. Using an analytical approach similar to the one applied to explore ...

Einstein Equations Physics February 16, 2006 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 72 vote(s) \| No comments yet Throughout the years mathematicians and physicists have been finding various solutions to Einstein’s equations. These solutions have helped scientists better understand the nature of our cosmos, as well develop ...

How foamy is spacetime? Physics February 10, 2006 \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 97 vote(s) \| No comments yet Maybe not as foamy as some scientists thought, as a fresh look at a quasar first observed in 1998 by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) shows. Physicists observed a diffraction pattern called an Airy ring around ...

'Phonon Hall Effect' Observed Physics October 23, 2005 \| User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 12 vote(s) \| No comments yet What effect do magnetic fields have on uncharged particles? Their effect on charged particles is familiar to every student of physics or electrical engineering. A common example is the Hall Effect, a basic phenomenon ...

'Single-Crystal' Superconductors are a Big Step for the Field Physics / Physics 14 hours ago \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- In key advances for the field of superconductivity, a research group has created versions of a class of widely studied superconducting compounds that are each one continuous crystal, rather ...

Entanglement without Classical Correlations Physics / Physics August 27, 2008 \| User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 49 vote(s) \| User comments: 16 Quantum mechanics is full of counterintuitive concepts. The idea of entanglement – when two or more particles instantaneously exhibit dependent characteristics when measured, no matter how far apart they are – is one of them. ...

Scientists identify quantum differences between light and heavy water Physics / Physics August 26, 2008 \| User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 44 vote(s) \| User comments: 16 Scientists know that light water (H₂O) and heavy water (D₂O) have similar but not identical structures. Using quantum mechanics, researchers have recently identified several differences ...

Operating quantum memory at room temperature Physics / Physics August 25, 2008 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 38 vote(s) \| User comments: 1 Quantum dots, along with quantum wires, have been attracting notice over the past decade as possible building blocks of quantum information processing. Indium arsenide quantum dots (InAs) can be used for memory operations ...

Physicists 'See' Single Top Quarks at the Tevatron Physics / Physics August 22, 2008 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 74 vote(s) \| User comments: 8 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the world's largest fully operating particle accelerator, the Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Illinois, have discovered convincing evidence suggesting the existence ...

Detector can count atom by atom

Protein-Nanoparticle Material Mimics Human Brain Tissue

The Physics of Friendship

Tick Tock: Who Needs an Atomic Clock?

Japanese Device Uses Laser Plasma to Display 3D Images in the Air

Hitching a Ride Out of a Gluttonous Black Hole

Physicists Predict Stock Market Crashes

Einstein Equations

How foamy is spacetime?

'Phonon Hall Effect' Observed

'Single-Crystal' Superconductors are a Big Step for the Field

Entanglement without Classical Correlations

Scientists identify quantum differences between light and heavy water

Operating quantum memory at room temperature

Physicists 'See' Single Top Quarks at the Tevatron

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