 Physicists Seek Answers to Quantum Correlations August 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 122 vote(s)
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After performing multiple tests on two entangled photons, physicists have yet again found that the photons seem to be communicating faster than the speed of light - at least 100,000 times faster. The researchers ... | |
 Large Hadron Collider set to unveil a new world of particle physics August 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The field of particle physics is poised to enter unknown territory with the startup of a massive new accelerator--the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)--in Europe this summer. On September 10, LHC ... | |
 Evolution as Described by the Second Law of Thermodynamics August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 103 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Often, physics and biology appear as different worlds, from a scientist’s point of view. Each discipline has its own language and concepts, and physicists and biologists tend to look at the ... | |
 CERN announces start-up date for Large Hadron Collider August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 60 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 ... | |
Compressor-free refrigerator may loom in the future August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 67 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 ... | |
 Scientists identify quantum differences between light and heavy water August 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
Entanglement without Classical Correlations August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 49 vote(s)
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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. ... | |
 Invisibility cloak now within sight: scientists (Update 2) August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 82 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have for the first time engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light, a development ... | |
Chemist Travels World to Study Mysterious Properties of Neutrinos August 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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In the quest to better understand one of nature's most "ghostly" elementary particles — the neutrino — scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are spreading their expertise from ... | |
 First particles observed in Large Hadron Collider August 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Glasgow scientists, working at CERN, have observed the first particles in the Large Hadron Collider during preliminary tests ahead of the switch-on next month. | |
 Quantum Chaos Unveiled? August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 73 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Utah study is shedding light on an important, unsolved physics problem: the relationship between chaos theory - which is based on 300-year-old Newtonian physics - and the modern ... | |
 Tevatron experiments double-team Higgs boson August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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Scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab have combined Tevatron data from the two experiments to advance the quest for the long-sought Higgs boson. Their ... | |
China becomes a physics powerhouse August 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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Judged by the astonishing increase in journal papers written by scientists in China, there can be little doubt that China is finding its place as one of the world's scientific power houses. Michael Banks, Physics World's ... | |
Physicists Investigate Controversy over Room-Temperature Ice August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 37 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By confining water in nano-sized spaces, physicists from Leiden University in the Netherlands have turned water into ice at room temperature. While it’s not the first time scientists have created room-temperature ... | |
 Japanese physicists aim to unlock universe's mysteries August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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As the world's scientists try to unzip mysteries about the universe, Japan is set to open its largest atomic science park to study the world at its smallest level. | |
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