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Displaying items by tag: Physics

Tuesday, 22 March 2016 16:47

‘Breakthrough’ technology to improve cyber security, says research team

A research team at the University of Sydney is claiming a major breakthrough in generating single photons (light particles), as carriers of quantum information in security systems.

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Monday, 17 November 2014 10:37

Quantum whirlpool 'polaritons' created by spiral laser beam

No, there are no shark with frickin’ spiral laser beams creating quantum whirlpools, but ANU physicists have indeed managed to do it, creating ‘polaritons’!

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Thursday, 13 November 2014 17:27

Angela Merkel to cast a scientific eye over NICTA

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a former research scientist in her own right, is to visit the NICTA research centre of excellence while in Australia for the G20 summit.

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Monday, 20 October 2014 13:41

ANU physicists build reversible laser tractor

Physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) have built a tractor beam that can repel and attract objects over a much longer distance than previously achieved.

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Saturday, 09 January 2010 20:30

Q&A Interview, Part 2: Predictive Cosmology and Standard Model revisited

A European physicist states that an elementary-particle model, called the extended Standard Model, reveals how the universe was initially created, as well as its subsequent expansion into its present form. He continues his question-and-answer discussion of his xSM theory here'”in an exclusive interview with the author.

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Thursday, 18 June 2009 18:05

Scientists straighten out baseball's curve ball

A Bucknell University professor led researchers in an explanation as to why a curveball in baseball breaks so much when seen by a batter. Their imagery won them Best Illusion of the Year for 2009 by Vision Sciences Society.

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Monday, 20 April 2009 21:21

Physicists observe waves that heat Sun's corona

For the first time scientists have directly seen magnetic waves that heat up the outer atmosphere of the Sun millions of degrees hotter than its surface interior. These AlfvÃ©n waves were imaged by the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope.

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Monday, 08 December 2008 20:33

Quantum encryption broken with time travel?

The field of quantum mechanics allows security codes to be sent completely free of being detected and read. However, U.S. scientists say they could break these quantum encryption codes with time travel, specifically, wormholes. That is, if wormholes exist?

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Saturday, 20 September 2008 18:27

LHC atom smasher temporarily smashed

CERN officials announced that its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be inoperable for at least two months while repairs are conducted after it malfunctioned and was damaged during its initial startup on Friday, September 12, 2008.

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Sunday, 14 September 2008 15:38

Bigger Bang Theory: Einstein's Telescope dwarfs Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider has got the world talking about life, the universe and everything. Oh, and black holes and death, of course. Just wait until people hear about it's big brother: the International Linear Collider...

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Friday, 15 August 2008 08:29

Green supercomputer heading to Canada

The University of Toronto is set to become home to the largest - though perhaps not the fastest - supercomputer outside the US.

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Thursday, 14 August 2008 20:44

With Einstein's ok: Star Trek-type spacecraft can travel at warp speeds

American physicists Gerald Cleaver and Richard Obousy are proposing a “hypothetical propulsion device” that could travel faster than the speed of light without violating any laws of physics. However, we’ll have to ask Scotty for enormous amounts of dilithium crystals!

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Saturday, 14 June 2008 18:53

MSNBC list 10 scientifically inaccurate disaster movies

MSNBC states “Science sometimes gets twisted for the sake of a well-told story.” The website list ten disaster movies with improbable to impossible plots. Can we name more?

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Sunday, 04 May 2008 22:01

Pioneer Anomaly partially explained with heat

The Pioneer Anomaly is a mystery involving the NASA Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft. Launched in 1972-73, they have traveled hundreds of millions of kilometers to explore the outer solar system and, soon, interstellar space. However, their speed is wrong, at least according to our generally accepted laws of physics.

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Thursday, 01 May 2008 02:18

HP turns theory into fact with memristor memory

It's been 37 years since Leon Chua hypothesised the existence of the memristor - the 'missing' basic electronic circuit element to complement the capacitor, resistor and inductor - but Hewlett-Packard scientists have finally made one.

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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 00:49

Electron discovered April 30, 1897, by Joseph John Thomson

Of course electrons have been zipping around before we knew about them. However, 111 years ago, Joseph John Thomson first announced that he had discovered the existence of electrons, which he named "corpuscles,” or small bodies.

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Thursday, 17 April 2008 19:23

Pop-ups in baseball not that easy to catch: It's the physics!

U.S. researchers (and, no doubt, baseball fanatics) find that the trajectories of baseballs that are popped up almost vertically are complicated due to the collision of the ball with the bat and the air resistance around the ball itself in flight.

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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:12

Stephen Hawking to give NASA 50th anniversary speech

NASA has announced that British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking will speak at NASA’s Fiftieth Anniversary Event on April 21, 2008, at George Washington University. The event will be carried live on NASA Television.

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Friday, 11 April 2008 03:23

Racetrack memory promises major storage expansion for devices

New non-volatile memory technologies pop up from time to time, but they don't always make a lasting impression. Remember bubble memory? What about FRAM? Now IBM reckons its 'racetrack' memory could deliver the performance and reliability of flash memory with the low cost and high capacity of hard drives.

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Thursday, 28 February 2008 20:01

March 1, 1896: Radioactivity discovered by Becquerel

On February 26, 1896, Henri Becquerel stored a photographic plate with uranium salts lying on top of it. He intended to later perform an experiment on phosphorescent emissions stimulated by the Sun. However, something unusual happened!

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