 CERN announces start-up date for Large Hadron Collider 9 hours ago | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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CERN has today announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. This news comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN's new particle ... | |
 First STM spectroscopy of graphene flakes yields new surprises July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have performed the first scanning tunneling spectroscopy of ... | |
 Electron microscopy enters the picometer scale July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Jülich scientists have succeeded in precisely measuring atomic spacings down to a few picometres using new methods in ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy. This makes it possible to find out decisive parameters ... | |
 Researchers analyze material with 'colossal ionic conductivity' July 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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A new material characterized at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could open a pathway toward more efficient fuel cells. | |
 Viterbi Algorithm goes quantum July 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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The Viterbi Algorithm, the elegant 41-year-old logical tool for rapidly eliminating dead end possibilities in data transmission, has a new application to go alongside its ubiquitous daily use in cell phone ... | |
Rochester physicist's quantum-'uncollapse' hypothesis verified August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 49 vote(s)
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In 2006, Andrew Jordan, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, together with Alexander Korotkov at the University of California, Riverside, spelled out how to exploit a quantum quirk to accomplish ... | |
 Advance brings low-cost, bright LED lighting closer to reality July 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 68 vote(s)
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Researchers at Purdue University have overcome a major obstacle in reducing the cost of "solid state lighting," a technology that could cut electricity consumption by 10 percent if widely adopted. | |
 The brightest, sharpest, fastest X-ray holograms yet August 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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The pinhole camera, a technique known since ancient times, has inspired a futuristic technology for lensless, three-dimensional imaging. Working at both the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department ... | |
 Scientists demonstrate highly directional semiconductor lasers July 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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Applied scientists at Harvard collaborating with researchers at Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, highly directional semiconductor lasers with a much smaller ... | |
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 ... | |
Superfluid-superconductor relationship is detailed August 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Scientists have studied superconductors and superfluids for decades. Now, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have drawn the first detailed picture of the way a superfluid influences the behavior of a superconductor. ... | |
 Physicists Explain Why Liquid Optical Fibers Don't Collapse July 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For several years, physicists have known that liquid columns can be used to guide light. By trapping a light beam, a liquid column can act like an optical fiber, but with a liquid sheathing ... | |
 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, ... | |
Scientists Shed Light on Heavy Electrons, Suggest New View of Superconductivity July 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, Davis have proposed a new characterization for the bizarre behavior of certain super-cooled ... | |
Physicists Discover New Particle: the Bottom-most 'Bottomonium' July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Thirty years ago, particle physics delighted in discovering the "bottomonium" family—the set of particles that contain both a bottom quark and an anti-bottom quark but are bound together with different energies. ... | |
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