 Next stop: The fourth dimension September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 66 vote(s)
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How did the universe come to be? What is it made of? What is mass? Can science prove that there are other dimensions? We may have answers soon. | |
 Electrons discover their individuality September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrons have something in common with people: the more information they acquire about their setting, the more they become aware of their individuality and the more belonging to a group loses ... | |
 Physicists Transmit Light through Opaque Materials August 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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No matter how thick an opaque "scattering material" is, physicists have shown how to weave light through tiny open channels in the material, so that the light passes through on the other side. | |
Scientists Move Optical Computing Closer to Reality August 19, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have theorized a way to increase the speed of pulses of light that bound across chains of tiny metal particles to well past the speed of light by altering the ... | |
 Ames lab physicist develops 'electrifying' theory on superconducting fault-current limiters August 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- John R. Clem, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, has developed a theory that will help build future superconducting alternating-current fault-current limiters ... | |
New immunization strategy could halve the doses for stopping computer virus spreading August 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Researchers have developed a new immunization strategy that requires up to 50% fewer immunization doses compared with the current most efficient strategy. The new strategy could be used to prevent the spread of human epidemics ... | |
Fast quantum computer building block created August 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The fastest quantum computer bit that exploits the main advantage of the qubit over the conventional bit has been demonstrated by researchers at University of Michigan, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and ... | |
Practical Cloaking Devices On The Horizon? August 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Invisibility cloaks get a step closer to realization, with the demonstration of a new material that can bend (visible) light the 'wrong' way for the first time in three dimensions. | |
 The hunt for the Higgs steps up a gear August 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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The hunt for the Higgs boson, the most highly sought-after particle in physics, received a boost this month with the release of two new results from the Tevatron particle collider at the US Department of Energy's ... | |
 'Top Secret' Technology To Help U.S. Swimmers Trim Times at Beijing Olympics August 12, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Milliseconds can mean the difference between triumph and defeat in the world of Olympic sports, leading more trainers and athletes to look toward technology as a tool to get an edge on the ... | |
New theory for latest high-temperature superconductors August 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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Physicists from Rice and Rutgers universities have published a new theory that explains some of the complex electronic and magnetic properties of iron "pnictides." In a series of startling discoveries this spring, pnictides ... | |
Operating quantum memory at room temperature August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
 Scientists take the sharpest image ever made with light August 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from the Technische Universität Dresden (Germany) and the ESRF in Grenoble (France) has produced the image of an object at the highest resolution ever achieved with X-ray ... | |
 Fermilab physicists discover 'doubly strange' particle September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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Physicists of the DZero experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega-sub-b (Ωb). The particle contains ... | |
 Team studies how new helium ion microscope measures up September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Just as test pilots push planes to explore their limits, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are probing the newest microscope technology to further improve measurement accuracy ... | |
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