 Physicists Seek Answers to Quantum Correlations August 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 122 vote(s)
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After performing multiple tests on two entangled photons, physicists have yet again found that the photons seem to be communicating faster than the speed of light - at least 100,000 times faster. The researchers ... | |
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 ... | |
 Invisibility cloak now within sight: scientists (Update 2) August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 82 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have for the first time engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light, a development ... | |
 Quantum Chaos Unveiled? August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 73 vote(s)
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(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 ... | |
 Researchers make milestone discovery in quantum mechanics August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 85 vote(s)
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Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have recently reached what they are calling a milestone in experimental quantum mechanics. | |
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 ... | |
Magnetism and Superconductivity Observed to Exist in Harmony 9 hours ago | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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(Physorg.com) -- Physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, along with colleagues at institutions in Switzerland and Canada, have observed, for the first time in a single exotic phase, a situation where magnetism and superconductivity ... | |
 The hunt for the Higgs steps up a gear 10 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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The hunt for the Higgs boson, the most highly sought-after particle in physics, received a boost this month with the release of two new results from the Tevatron particle collider at the US Department of Energy's ... | |
 Japanese physicists aim to unlock universe's mysteries August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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As the world's scientists try to unzip mysteries about the universe, Japan is set to open its largest atomic science park to study the world at its smallest level. | |
 Large Hadron Collider set to unveil a new world of particle physics August 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The field of particle physics is poised to enter unknown territory with the startup of a massive new accelerator--the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)--in Europe this summer. On September 10, LHC ... | |
Scientists Move Optical Computing Closer to Reality August 19, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have theorized a way to increase the speed of pulses of light that bound across chains of tiny metal particles to well past the speed of light by altering the ... | |
 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. | |
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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
 '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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