 First measurement of entangled states in nitrogen 21 hours ago | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 15 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 ... | |
 Research puts new wrinkle in study of materials folding under pressure 22 hours ago | 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 ... | |
MIT Creates New Material For Fuel Cells, Increases Power Output By 50 Percent 22 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 37 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 ... | |
New efficiency record for solar cells May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 39 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 ... | |
 Physicists Demonstrate How Information Can Escape From Black Holes May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 76 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 ... | |
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 ... | |
Slowing light to speed data: USC Viterbi School wins $4.3M photonics IT contract May 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Two prize-winning USC specialists hope to break a bottleneck that has long limited communication systems from using light - photons - instead of electronics for data information processing. | |
 A Smarter Way to Grow Graphene May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 34 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 ... | |
Argonne scientists use lasers to align molecules May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Protein crystallographers have only scratched the surface of the human proteins important for drug interactions because of difficulties crystallizing the molecules for synchrotron x-ray diffraction. | |
Black holes not black after all May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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International scientists have used flowing water to simulate a black hole, testing Stephen Hawking's theory that black holes are not black after all. | |
 Possible Mechanism for Enormous Electromechanical Response May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators at Stony Brook University, Johns Hopkins University, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have ... | |
Precise Alignment to Quantum Dots May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 26 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. | |
 Quantum computers take step toward practicality with demonstration of new device May 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 61 vote(s)
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Computers based on the powerful properties of quantum mechanics have the potential to revolutionize information technology and security, but for decades they have remained more theoretical than practical, ... | |
Made-to-order isotopes hold promise on science's frontier May 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Designer labels have a lot of cachet -- a principle that’s equally true in fashion and physics. The future of nuclear physics is in designer isotopes -- the relatively new power scientists have to make specific rare isotopes ... | |
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