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Optical properties of the Antarctic system and new radiation information

The Antarctic system comprises of the continent itself, Antarctica, and the ocean surrounding it, the Southern Ocean. In a study for a doctoral degree by geophysicist Kai Rasmus, University of Helsinki, Finland, measurements ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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The use of acoustic inversion to estimate the bubble size distribution in pipelines

New research from the University of Southampton has devised a new method to more accurately measure gas bubbles in pipelines.

Physics / General Physics

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers develop new way to generate superluminal pulses

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel way of producing light pulses that are "superluminal"—in some sense they travel faster than ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 32 | with audio podcast

New technique lights up the creation of holograms

Researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute (Japan) have developed a unique way to create full-color holograms with the aid of surface plasmons.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (37) | comments 1

X-rays of synthesized moon rocks illuminate the interior of the Moon

Contrary to Earth, our Moon has no active volcanoes, and the traces of its past volcanic activity date from billions of years ago. This is surprising, because recent Moonquake data suggest that there is plenty ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Infrared detector unmasks cocaine addicts

A research group at ETH Zurich is currently developing an infrared measuring technique to enable the detection of cocaine and its metabolites in saliva. The initial steps towards a portable measuring device ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Optical fiber innovation could make future optical computers a 'SNAP'

Optics and photonics may one day revolutionize computer technology with the promise of light-speed calculations. Storing light as memory, however, requires devices known as microresonators, an emerging technology ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Laser light used to cool object to quantum ground state

For the first time, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in collaboration with a team from the University of Vienna, have managed to cool a miniature mechanical object to its lowest ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Squeezed laser will bring gravitational waves to the light of day

A quantum phenomenon allows detectors which sense oscillations of space-time to measure with 50 percent more accuracy.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 11, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 64 | with audio podcast

'Cell surgery' using nano-beams

Using a simple glass capillary, atomic physicists at RIKEN are developing an ultra-narrow ion beam that pinpoints a part of organelles in a living cell, enabling biologists to visualize how the damage affects ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers demonstrate highly unidirectional 'whispering gallery' microlasers

Utilizing a century-old phenomenon discovered in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, applied scientists at Harvard University have demonstrated, for the first time, highly collimated unidirectional microlasers.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 6 | with audio podcast


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