Pentagon-supported physicists on Wednesday said they had devised a "time cloak" that briefly makes an event undetectable.

Physics - General Physics

Jan 04, 2012 3.1 / 5 (64) 43 |

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers working at Bell Labs in New Jersey has found a way to dramatically reduce the amount of distortion in long distance fiber cables. Their method results, the team reports ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

May 27, 2013 4.7 / 5 (23) 0 |

Thanks to a little serendipity, researchers at Rice University have created a tiny coaxial cable that is about a thousand times smaller than a human hair and has higher capacitance than previously reported ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Jun 07, 2012 4.9 / 5 (22) 6 |

(Phys.org) —Elevator tech has hit a wall, or at least the wrong floor of the person's destination, with limitations that are unable to accommodate the world's tallest buildings. As buildings rise, logistical ...

Technology - Engineering

Jun 12, 2013 4.6 / 5 (22) 17 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- The name of the project -- "photonic neuron" -- was catchy enough, but what really caught Mitchell Nahmias' attention was the opportunity to combine his interests in engineering and neuroscience.

Physics - General Physics

Jul 19, 2011 4.8 / 5 (17) 9

Researchers at Aarhus University, Denmark, made a sensational discovery almost three years ago when they measured electric currents in the seabed. It was unclear as to what was conducting the current, but ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Oct 24, 2012 4.5 / 5 (18) 21 |

Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand's South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they ...

Technology - Telecom

Jun 15, 2013 4.6 / 5 (17) 11

(Phys.org) —A research team at the University of Southampton in England has built a fiber cable that is capable of carrying data at 99.7 percent of the vacuum-speed of light. They have done so, they report ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Mar 26, 2013 5 / 5 (13) 3 |

If you're a customer of AT&T's U-verse service or have plain-old DSL Internet access, you may feel like you're stuck in the slow lane, especially compared to your friends and neighbors who have cable Internet access. But ...

Technology - Telecom

Apr 19, 2013 3.4 / 5 (19) 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the Clean Technology 2011 Conference and Expo in Boston, Andre Sharon presented a new concept of using ships equipped with a wave-power system to harvest energy and deliver it back to a ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Jul 20, 2011 4.6 / 5 (11) 35 |

(Phys.org)—Communicating with light may soon get a lot easier, hints recent research* from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland's Joint Quantum Institute ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Jan 09, 2013 5 / 5 (10) 9 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have created a new type of optical device small enough to fit millions on a computer chip that could lead to faster, more powerful information processing and supercomputers.

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Dec 22, 2011 5 / 5 (9) 0 |

Nearly two in three Americans think President Barack Obama is better suited than Republican rival Mitt Romney to deal with an alien invasion, according to a survey released Wednesday.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jun 27, 2012 2.6 / 5 (17) 61

(Phys.org) —Fergus Ewing, Scotland's energy minister, has announced plans for the deployment of 40 to 50 Oyster hydro-electric wave devices off the country's northwestern shore. The new facility will be ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

May 23, 2013 4.9 / 5 (8) 4 |

The "AmpaCity" project has been kicked off: The RWE Group and its partners are just about to replace a 1-kilometre-long high-voltage cable connecting two transformer stations in the Ruhr city of Essen with ...

Technology - Engineering

Jan 19, 2012 4.5 / 5 (8) 9