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. | |
 CERN announces start-up date for Large Hadron Collider August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 60 vote(s)
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CERN has today announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. This news comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN's new particle ... | |
Hitachi Shows Technical Feasibility Of Perpendicular Magnetic Recording At 610 Gbit/in2 August 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Hitachi, Ltd. announced today that it has demonstrated the technical feasibility of magnetic recording at 610 Gbit/in2. This considerably exceeds the previously demonstrated capabilities of current perpendicular recording ... | |
 Physicists Explain Why Liquid Optical Fibers Don't Collapse July 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For several years, physicists have known that liquid columns can be used to guide light. By trapping a light beam, a liquid column can act like an optical fiber, but with a liquid sheathing ... | |
Rochester physicist's quantum-'uncollapse' hypothesis verified August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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In 2006, Andrew Jordan, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, together with Alexander Korotkov at the University of California, Riverside, spelled out how to exploit a quantum quirk to accomplish ... | |
 Physicists Transmit Light through Opaque Materials August 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 44 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 identify quantum differences between light and heavy water August 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 44 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 ... | |
New theory for latest high-temperature superconductors August 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 44 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 ... | |
Entanglement without Classical Correlations August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 49 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. ... | |
China becomes a physics powerhouse August 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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Judged by the astonishing increase in journal papers written by scientists in China, there can be little doubt that China is finding its place as one of the world's scientific power houses. Michael Banks, Physics World's ... | |
Fast quantum computer building block created August 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 41 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 ... | |
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 ... | |
 '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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Prelude to the Higgs: A work for 2 bosons in the key of Z July 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the US Department of Energy's Fermilab have announced the observation of pairs of Z bosons, force-carrying particles produced in proton-antiproton collisions at the ... | |
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