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Researchers make milestone discovery in quantum mechanics

August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 80 vote(s) | User comments: 5

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have recently reached what they are calling a milestone in experimental quantum mechanics.


Physicists Investigate Controversy over Room-Temperature Ice

August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 34 vote(s) | User comments: 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- By confining water in nano-sized spaces, physicists from Leiden University in the Netherlands have turned water into ice at room temperature. While it’s not the first time scientists have created room-temperature ...


Hitachi Shows Technical Feasibility Of Perpendicular Magnetic Recording At 610 Gbit/in2

August 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | No comments yet

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 ...


Quantum Chaos Unveiled?

August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 61 vote(s) | User comments: 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Utah study is shedding light on an important, unsolved physics problem: the relationship between chaos theory - which is based on 300-year-old Newtonian physics - and the modern ...


China becomes a physics powerhouse

August 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 32 vote(s) | User comments: 9

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 ...


Rochester physicist's quantum-'uncollapse' hypothesis verified

August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 49 vote(s) | User comments: 6

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 ...


Researchers explain odd oxygen bonding under pressure

August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 28 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Oxygen, the third most abundant element in the cosmos and essential to life on Earth, changes its forms dramatically under pressure transforming to a solid with spectacular colors. Eventually it becomes metallic ...


Tevatron experiments double-team Higgs boson

August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 35 vote(s) | User comments: 10

Scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab have combined Tevatron data from the two experiments to advance the quest for the long-sought Higgs boson. Their ...


Superfluid-superconductor relationship is detailed

August 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 28 vote(s) | User comments: 2

Scientists have studied superconductors and superfluids for decades. Now, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have drawn the first detailed picture of the way a superfluid influences the behavior of a superconductor. ...


Siemens builds a lock made of light: Data transfer using quantum cryptography

August 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic communication is becoming more secure all over the world. Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Austrian Research Centers (ARC) and Graz University of Technology have joined forces ...


The brightest, sharpest, fastest X-ray holograms yet

August 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s) | No comments yet

The pinhole camera, a technique known since ancient times, has inspired a futuristic technology for lensless, three-dimensional imaging. Working at both the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department ...


CERN announces start-up date for Large Hadron Collider

9 hours ago | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 21 vote(s) | User comments: 14

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 ...


Innovative research brings quantum computers one step closer

August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Complex computer encryption codes could be solved and new drug design developed significantly faster thanks to new research carried out by the University of Surrey.


Size-specific cracking shakes out at the nanoscale

August 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Certain sizes of nanostructures may be more susceptible to failure by fracture than others. That is the result of new research by LLNL's Michael Manley and colleagues from Los Alamos National ...


Skipping Atomic-scale Stones to Study Some Chemistry Basics

August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | No comments yet

Thought experiment: a carbon dioxide molecule—think of a cheerleader’s baton—comes slanting in at high speed over a dense liquid, strikes the surface and ricochets. How does it tumble? Fast or slow? Forward, ...


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