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 ... | |
 Viterbi Algorithm goes quantum July 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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The Viterbi Algorithm, the elegant 41-year-old logical tool for rapidly eliminating dead end possibilities in data transmission, has a new application to go alongside its ubiquitous daily use in cell phone ... | |
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 ... | |
New technique to compress light could open doors for optical communications July 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have devised a way to squeeze light into tighter spaces than ever thought possible, potentially opening doors to new technology in the fields of optical ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Scientists find quick method to make magnets July 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 49 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ultra-strong, high-temperature, high-performance permanent magnet compounds, such as Samarium Cobalt, are the mainstay materials for several industries that rely on high-performance motor ... | |
Killer pulses help characterize special surfaces July 29, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Detecting deadly fumes in subways, toxic gases in chemical spills, and hidden explosives in baggage is becoming easier and more efficient with a measurement technique called surface-enhanced Raman scattering. To further improve ... | |
 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 ... | |
If you can't measure the heat... July 29, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Accurate measurement of thermal performance is crucial if new government legislation aimed at producing dramatic reductions in CO2 emissions is to be successful. The UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is offering ... | |
 Scientists demonstrate highly directional semiconductor lasers July 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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Applied scientists at Harvard collaborating with researchers at Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, highly directional semiconductor lasers with a much smaller ... | |
 The Lightness of Electrons in a Twisting Metal Crystal July 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at Princeton University's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center has observed electrons moving through a crystal of bismuth metal behaving like light. | |
Proposed Particle Help Explains Odd Galactic Photons July 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 73 vote(s)
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In 2002, a satellite called INTEGRAL was launched by the European Space Agency with an instrument on board to detect and measure gamma rays from space. Four years later, it yielded some intriguing data: An unusually high ... | |
 Electron microscopy enters the picometer scale July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Jülich scientists have succeeded in precisely measuring atomic spacings down to a few picometres using new methods in ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy. This makes it possible to find out decisive parameters ... | |
Shielding for ambitious neutron experiment July 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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In science fiction stories it is either the inexhaustible energy source of the future or a superweapon of galactic magnitude: antimaterial. In fact, antimaterial can neither be found on Earth nor in space, is extremely complex ... | |
 New Membrane Model May Unlock Secrets of Early-Stage Alzheimer's July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and three collaborating institutions are using a new laboratory model of the membrane surrounding neurons in the brain to study how a protein ... | |
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