Dark matter, new planets could bring physics Nobel October 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- Scientists who have pursued dark matter, hunted for undiscovered planets and advanced nanotechnology were being touted Monday as candidates for the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics. | |
Unlocking the secret of the Kondo Effect September 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists including researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology at UCL (University College London) and the IBM Almaden Research Center has forged a breakthrough in understanding an intriguing ... | |
Using 'slow light' to modulate single photon wavepackets September 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Single photons have been studied for a long time, Steve Harris tells PhysOrg.com. “But this is the first time that their wavepackets have been modulated.” Just as electrons may be described as either particles ... | |
 Controlling light with sound: new liquid camera lens as simple as water and vibration September 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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New miniature image-capturing technology powered by water, sound, and surface tension could lead to smarter and lighter cameras in everything from cell phones and automobiles to autonomous robots and miniature ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Sensing the Energy: Calibrating the LCLS October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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The Linac Coherent Light Source will generate X-rays 10 billion times brighter than any source before it. Being the first of its kind, the LCLS has presented engineers with a number of unique technical hurdles. ... | |
 Scientists create world's thinnest balloon, just 1 atom thick September 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a lump of graphite, a piece of Scotch tape and a silicon wafer, Cornell researchers have created a balloonlike membrane that is just one atom thick -- but strong enough to contain gases ... | |
Researchers develop world's fastest bar code reader September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Building on a series of recent breakthroughs in ultrafast analog-to-digital conversion, UCLA engineers have designed a bar code reader that is nearly a thousand times faster than any device currently in use. | |
Dark Energy v. The Void: What if Copernicus was Wrong? September 26, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 100 vote(s)
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Dark energy is at the heart of one of the greatest mysteries of modern physics, but it may be nothing more than an illusion, according physicists at Oxford University. The problem facing astrophysicists is that they have ... | |
 CERN rivals see melting magnets as par for course September 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The daring success of the world's largest atom smasher on its opening day was more surprising to many scientists than the troubles it subsequently developed. | |
Operating quantum memory at room temperature August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 42 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 ... | |
 A dark matter disk in our Galaxy September 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists predict that our Galaxy, the Milky Way, contains a disk of ‘dark matter’. In a paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers ... | |
Entanglement without Classical Correlations August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 59 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. ... | |
 Scientists identify quantum differences between light and heavy water August 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 54 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 ... | |
 'Single-Crystal' Superconductors are a Big Step for the Field August 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In key advances for the field of superconductivity, a research group has created versions of a class of widely studied superconducting compounds that are each one continuous crystal, rather ... | |
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