Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

'Chaogates' Hold Promise for the Semiconductor Industry

Simply put, they used chaotic patterns to encode and manipulate inputs to produce a desired output. They selected desired patterns from the infinite variety…

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Artificial Black Holes Made with Metamaterials

While our direct knowledge of black holes in the universe is limited to what we can observe from thousands or millions of light years away, a team of Chinese…

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Getting Bubbles Out Of Fuel Pumps

For more than 250 years, researchers have known that under certain conditions vapor bubbles can form in fluids moving swiftly over a surface. These bubbles…

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Astronomers Uncover Double Star Systems That May Explode

Today, researchers who found the first hypervelocity stars escaping the Milky Way announced that their search also turned up a dozen double-star systems. Half…

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NERSC Supercomputing Center Surpasses Petaflops Milestone

The Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), already one of the world’s leading centers for scientific…

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Study Links Biochemical Wave Patterns to Organ Damage

His findings, which appear in the October issue of the journal “Physical Review E,” detail Cheng's work with a system designed to model cells in a biochemical…

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Listening for Ocean Spills: New Techniques Unveiled

Scientists who study acoustics (the “science of sound”) have over the years developed a variety of techniques to probe the hidden depths of oceans. This week,…

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Imaging Tool Enhances Nanoelectronics by Screening Tiny Tubes

The semiconducting nanostructures might be used to revolutionize electronics by replacing conventional silicon components and circuits. However, one obstacle…

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Exploring Time’s Illusion: New Advances in Transporter Tech

The laws of physics might make the creation of a transporter which can dematerialise objects and then rematerialise them elsewhere a little beyond us, but it…

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Shortest-Pulse X-Ray Beams Unveil Atomic Interactions

The researchers used the HERCULES high-intensity, table-top laser to create X-ray beams that rival those made in expensive and massive synchrotron particle…

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How Google Queries Predict Stock Market Volumes

This is the result of a joint study in which search engine query data are analyzed by Tobias Preis and Daniel Reith (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz,…

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Pitt-led team develops nanoscale light sensor compatible with 'Etch-a-Sketch' nanoelectronic platform

University of Pittsburgh researchers have created a nanoscale light sensor that can be combined with near-atomic-size electronic circuitry to produce hybrid…

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Sugar and Slice: New Method Boosts Graphene Production

Future computers may run a little sweeter, thanks to a refinement in the manufacture of graphene at Rice University.Rice researchers have learned to make…

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New Light Transistor Uses Photons and Phonons for Innovation

The ability to control the propagation of light is at the technological heart of today’s telecommunication society. Researchers in the Laboratory of Photonics…

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Detailed Dark Matter Map Yields Clues to Galaxy Cluster Growth

The new dark matter observations may yield new insights into the role of dark energy in the universe's early formative years. The result suggests that galaxy…

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NIST Pings Key Material in Sonar, Closes Gap on Structural Mystery

The compound is a “piezoelectric,” a material capable of changing one kind of energy into another—mechanical to electrical, or vice versa. Long employed in…

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