 FLASH Imaging Redux: Nano-Cinema is Born 5 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Flash imaging of nanoscale objects undergoing ultrafast changes is now a technical possibility, according to a recent paper published in the June 22 edition of Nature Photonics. The results are a direct ... | |
 Are We in the Peak of an Oil Bubble? July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 118 vote(s)
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Since 2003, worldwide oil prices have quadrupled. According to a new study, the price of oil is rising at a faster-than-exponential rate, and cannot be sustained. In other words, we’re in the midst of an oil ... | |
 Qubits and Branes Share Surprising Features July 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 91 vote(s)
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What do black holes and entangled particles have in common? Until about a year ago, physicists thought that the two entities existed in completely separate worlds. Then, in 2007, physicist Michael Duff from ... | |
 Atomic Tug of War July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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A new form of energy-transfer, reported today in Nature (3 July 2008) may have implications for the study of reactions going on in the atmosphere, and even for those occurring in the body. | |
 A front-row seat at this summer's physics extravaganza July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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Nearly 20 years in the making, the largest particle accelerator in the world will start running in Switzerland this summer, offering scientists a glimpse of particles that have never been seen before. | |
 Einstein was right: Unique stellar system provides 'laboratory' for testing relativity July 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 70 vote(s)
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Researchers at McGill University's Department of Physics – along with colleagues from several countries – have confirmed a long-held prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, via observations ... | |
Some fundamental interactions of matter found to be fundamentally different than thought July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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Collisions have consequences. Everyone knows that. Whether it's between trains, planes, automobiles or atoms, there are always repercussions. But while macroscale collisions may have the most obvious effects - mangled steel, ... | |
Australia joins push for open access to particle physics July 07, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Australia has joined SCOAP3, an international consortium that aims to provide free access to major particle physics journals world-wide. Six of the Group of Eight universities in Australia have agreed to participate in the ... | |
 New logic: the attraction of magnetic computation July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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European researchers are the first to demonstrate functional components that exploit the magnetic properties of electrons to perform logic operations. Compatible with existing microtechnology, the new approach ... | |
An oblivious transfer protocol for quantum cryptography July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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“It's hard to beat the noise that you have with quantum information,” Barbara Terhal tells PhysOrg.com. “So our security protocol relies on the fact that storing quantum bits noiselessly is hard to do with current technology.” | |
Could better spin injection lead to a quantum information device? June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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One of the more promising types of materials for use in spintronics today is the class of metal alloys known as Heusler alloys. These alloys are named after a German engineer, and might be useful in technology in which electron ... | |
 Physicists create millimeter-sized 'Bohr atom' July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 57 vote(s)
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Nearly a century after Danish physicist Niels Bohr offered his planet-like model of the hydrogen atom, a Rice University-led team of physicists has created giant, millimeter-sized atoms that resemble it more ... | |
 More Evidence for a Revolutionary Theory of Water June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 138 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 ... | |
 World's Largest Quantum Bell Test Spans Three Swiss Towns June 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 114 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 – ... | |
Developing better nano-electronics by understanding nonadiabatic effects June 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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“Basically,” Michele Lazzeri tells PhysOrg.com, “the Born-Oppenheimer adiabatic approximation tells us how atoms are vibrating.” This adiabatic effect is used to describe phonons, which are modes of vibration that ... | |
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