 World's Largest Quantum Bell Test Spans Three Swiss Towns June 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 122 vote(s)
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In an attempt to rule out any kind of communication between entangled particles, physicists from the University of Geneva have sent two entangled photons traveling to different towns located 18 km apart – ... | |
 Million-Degree Plasma May Flow throughout the Galaxy February 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 86 vote(s)
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On a large scale, the Milky Way is considered to be a vast cold region punctured with isolated hot clouds and star clusters. While much of this space is cold and empty, researchers have recently discovered ... | |
 String Theory Gets a Boost January 29, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 110 vote(s)
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Among the scientific theories that excite a great deal of controversy are those theories that deal with strings. And the idea of cosmic strings gets as much play as any in scientific circles. | |
Negative Refraction of Visible Light Demonstrated; Could Lead to Cloaking Devices March 23, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 104 vote(s)
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For the first time, physicists have devised a way to make visible light travel in the opposite direction that it normally bends when passing from one material to another, like from air through water or glass. The phenomenon ... | |
 Physicists Rule Out the Production of Dangerous Black Holes at the LHC September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 91 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On August 8, the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, began the process of slowly throttling to full power. When its proton beams are circling ... | |
 What Anthropic Reasoning Can Really Tell Us February 08, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 96 vote(s)
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Anthropic reasoning is under debate in the scientific community, and is considered by some as a cop-out. It has now lost further ground as physicists show that anthropic conclusions mostly reflect our biases ... | |
 Counterintuitive physics may help everyone drive home quicker October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 73 vote(s)
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If you're trying to drive to a destination as quickly as possible, you might think that knowing the traffic conditions would help you choose the quickest route for yourself. Traffic reports and new GPS technologies ... | |
Could the Universe be tied up with cosmic string? January 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 93 vote(s)
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A team of physicists and astronomers at the University of Sussex and Imperial College London have uncovered hints that there may be cosmic strings - lines of pure mass-energy - stretching across the entire Universe. | |
 Researchers Move Closer To New Class of Memory April 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 88 vote(s)
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Computer memory that combines the high performance and reliability of flash with the low cost and high capacity of the hard disk drive could be closer than you think, thanks to a team of IBM scientists. | |
 Light throws a curve ball September 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 111 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of St Andrews have made a surprise discovery using light beams that can travel around corners. | |
 Invisibility cloak now within sight: scientists (Update 2) August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 84 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 ... | |
 MIT tests unique approach to fusion power March 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 140 vote(s)
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An MIT and Columbia University team has successfully tested a novel reactor that could chart a new path toward nuclear fusion, which could become a safe, reliable and nearly limitless source of energy. | |
 Black Holes Made of Light March 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 94 vote(s)
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Scientists at the University of St Andrews have used lasers to simulate a black hole in their laboratory. | |
 More Evidence for a Revolutionary Theory of Water June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 147 vote(s)
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The traditional picture of how liquid water behaves on a molecular level is wrong, according to new experimental evidence collected by a collaboration of researchers from the Department of Energy's Stanford ... | |
 Physicists Demonstrate How Information Can Escape From Black Holes May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 98 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 ... | |
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