News tagged with european researchers

Advancing quantum computing

European researchers have made important advances in understanding the major stumbling block to realisation of quantum computers, a phenomenon known as decoherence.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created 15 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Shedding light on complex mathematical group theories

EU researchers contributed important knowledge to the field of modular representation theory in the form of proofs and pioneering analyzes.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nanotechnology for solar energy conversion systems

EU researchers extensively characterised the self-organisation of nanotubes and developed novel compositions particularly appropriate to solar energy conversion applications.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nano-structured polymer-based materials from scrap

EU researchers developed polymer blends and processing techniques facilitating recovery of scrap from industrial processes. Advances in this area have the potential to decrease costs and waste while protecting ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Space probes will be more useful with new amplifiers

Researchers at Chalmers have developed a new generation of amplifiers, which the European Space Agency (ESA) will be using throughout the world to receive signals from its space probes and satellites. ESA ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Magnetic cloak: Physicists create device invisible to magnetic fields

Autonomous University of Barcelona researchers, in collaboration with an experimental group from the Academy of Sciences of Slovakia, have created a cylinder which hides contents and makes them invisible to ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Nasa finds sea ice decline driving rise in Arctic air pollutants

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drastic reductions in Arctic sea ice in the last decade may be intensifying the chemical release of bromine into the atmosphere, resulting in ground-level ozone depletion and the deposit of ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 99 | with audio podcast

Europe courts world scientists with cash grants

The European Research Council launched an international campaign Sunday to court the world's top scientists to work in Europe with grants of up to 3.5 million euro (4.6 million dollars) over five years.

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Wild west' approach to claiming the oceans' genetic resources must end: researchers

New international agreements are required to ensure nations benefit equally from medicines, foods and biofuels derived from the ocean's untapped genetic riches, according to a panel of University of British Columbia and European ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Flaw found in securing online transactions

Researchers on Wednesday revealed a flaw in the way data is scrambled to protect the privacy of online banking, shopping and other kinds of sensitive exchanges.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Surface of Mars an unlikely place for life after 600 million year drought, say scientists

Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet's surface, according to researchers who have been carrying out the painstaking task of analysing ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

More than 7,500-year-old fish traps found in Russia

A team of international archeologists, led by the Spanish National Research Council, has documented a series of more than 7,500-year-old fish seines and traps near Moscow. The equipment found, among the oldest in Europe, ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Physicist creates scale model of LHC ATLAS experiment of out LEGO blocks

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland has generated a lot of news of late, e.g. the announcement that a team had found what it believes ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (17) | comments 19 | with audio podcast report

More accurate than Santa Claus: First Galileo satellite orbit determination with high precision

Every year for Christmas, the North American Air Defence Command NORAD posts an animation on their website, in which the exact flight path of Santa Claus' sled led by reindeer Rudolf is precisely located (http://www.noradsanta.org/en/). The path of navigation satellites, however, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Via research aircraft instead of dog sled

With dog food and a pack of huskies Dr. Veit Helm would not get far on his Antarctic expeditions. Instead, the geophysicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association conducts ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0