News tagged with gain control

'Squeezing' light into quantum dots

(PhysOrg.com) -- “Quantum wells have been instrumental in telecommunications, enabling light amplification,” Patanjali Kambhampati tells PhysOrg.com, “but theory has suggested that a very small - colloidal - quantum dot co ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 2 feature

Obesity rate will reach at least 42 percent, say models of social contagion

Researchers at Harvard University say America's obesity epidemic won't plateau until at least 42 percent of adults are obese, an estimate derived by applying mathematical modeling to 40 years of Framingham Heart Study data.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast