 Getting many quantum states from one experimental setup July 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “In the traditional approach to entanglement with linear optics, one designs a new setup for each single state that you want,” Witlef Wieczorek tells PhysOrg.com. “What we’ve done is ... | |
Looking for neutralinos at the Large Hadron Collider July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 63 vote(s)
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“We are looking at the heavens, and using the very biggest things to help up predict what will happen with the very smallest things,” David Toback tells PhysOrg.com. Toback is a professor at Texas A&M University in ... | |
New Speed Record for Magnetic Memories August 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An experiment carried out at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) has realized spin torque switching of a nanomagnet as fast as the fundamental speed limit allows. Using this so-called ballistic ... | |
 Dark Energy and Dark Matter – The Results of Flawed Physics? September 11, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 232 vote(s)
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There are few scientific concepts as intriguing and mysterious as dark energy and dark matter, said to make up as much as 95 percent of all the energy and matter in the universe. And even though scientists ... | |
 Qubits and Branes Share Surprising Features July 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 93 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 ... | |
 A Printer that Delivers 1,000 Pages a Minute? September 21, 2006 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 154 vote(s)
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Two researchers from The College of Judea and Samaria in Israel have designed an ink-jet printer head that could lead to printers capable of chugging out 1,000 pages per minute – or even more. | |
 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 ... | |
 Particle decay may point to New Physics October 11, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 142 vote(s)
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A tiny flaw has caught the attention of physicists: the Standard Model (SM) predicts that the B meson mixing phase should be measured at nearly the same result using two different classes of decay modes. However, ... | |
.jpg "New theory (and old equations) may explain causes of ship-sinking freak waves") New theory (and old equations) may explain causes of ship-sinking freak waves September 13, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 154 vote(s)
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On a stormy April day in 1995, the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 was sailing in the North Atlantic when the ocean liner dipped into a "hole in the sea." Out of the darkness, a towering 95-foot wave threatened to crash ... | |
Scientists Shed Light on Heavy Electrons, Suggest New View of Superconductivity July 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, Davis have proposed a new characterization for the bizarre behavior of certain super-cooled ... | |
 Light-emitting transistor uses light to transfer an electrical signal November 01, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 105 vote(s)
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In one of the early discoveries of the current "silicon electrophotonics era," scientists from Hitachi, Ltd. in Tokyo have built a light-emitting transistor (LET) that transfers, detects and controls an electrical ... | |
.jpg "Single-particle interference observed for macroscopic objects") Single-particle interference observed for macroscopic objects September 28, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 125 vote(s)
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With a variation on the famous double-slit experiment of quantum mechanics, scientists Yves Couder and Emmanuel Fort from the University of Paris 7 are rewriting the textbooks. Their accomplishment, however, ... | |
 Study Suggests the Existence of Ferroelectric Ice in the Universe November 27, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 84 vote(s)
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Various forms of ice have been found in many locations within the frigid reaches of our galaxy, from interstellar clouds to comets, moons, and planets. But a particularly intriguing and rare type, “ferroelectric” ... | |
 A New Approach to Superconducting Memory November 06, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 60 vote(s)
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Despite the potential of superconductor-based electronics to significantly impact the electronics industry – for example, a superconducting computer chip is a thousand times faster than the one within the laptop ... | |
 '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 ... | |
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