News tagged with interference

Plant gene replacement results in the world's only blue rose

Australian and Japanese researchers have demonstrated the application of RNAi technology for gene replacement in plants, developing the world's only blue rose.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (107) | comments 2

Physicists Measure Elusive 'Persistent Current' That Flows Forever

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Yale University have made the first definitive measurements of "persistent current," a small but perpetual electric current that flows naturally through tiny rings of metal wire ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (60) | comments 16

Which-way detector unlocks some mystery of the double-slit experiment

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the greatest puzzles of the double-slit experiment – and quantum physics in general – is why electrons seem to act differently when being observed. While electrons traveling ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 21, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (51) | comments 85 | with audio podcast feature

Quantum Mechanics Not In Jeopardy: Physicists Confirm Decades-Old Key Principle Experimentally

(PhysOrg.com) -- When waves -- regardless of whether light or sound -- collide, they overlap creating interferences. Austrian and Canadian quantum physicists have now been able to rule out the existence of ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 22, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (43) | comments 395 | with audio podcast

Researchers create light from 'almost nothing'

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of physicists working out of Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, have succeeded in proving what was until now, just theory; and that is, that visible photons could ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (40) | comments 59 | with audio podcast report

SETI@home completes a decade of ET search

The SETI@home project, which has involved the worldwide public in a search for radio-wave evidence of life outside Earth, marks its 10th anniversary on May 17, 2009.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (32) | comments 9

Quantum physics first: Researchers observe single photons in two-slit interferometer experiment

Quantum mechanics is famous for saying that a tree falling in a forest when there's no one there doesn't make a sound. Quantum mechanics also says that if anyone is listening, it interferes with and changes the tree. And ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 44 | with audio podcast

Researchers propose new way to reproduce a black hole

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite their popularity in the science fiction genre, there is much to be learned about black holes, the mysterious regions in space once thought to be absent of light. In a paper published in the August ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (22) | comments 27

Building a more versatile laser

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the drawbacks associated with using semiconductor lasers is that many of them can only produce a beam of a single wavelength, and can only send that beam in one direction at a time. ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 0 feature

Fab new laser nano-fabrication technology

(PhysOrg.com) -- Laser interference lithography can produce very high-resolution nano-scale surface patterns at low cost, and now European researchers have made important breakthroughs in the area.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 07, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Measuring the Speed of Light in Composite Materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although the speed of light is constant in a vacuum, light slows down a small amount when traveling through other materials. While it's relatively easy to measure the speed of light in mediums ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (14) | comments 7 weblog

RNA Interference Delivered Using Nanoparticles Hits Target in Human Patients

(PhysOrg.com) -- A multi-institutional team of researchers and clinicians has published the first proof that a targeted nanoparticle can traffic into tumors, deliver double-stranded small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), and turn ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Team discovers a piece of the puzzle for individualized cancer therapy via gene silencing

In a major cancer-research breakthrough, researchers at the McGill University, Department of Biochemistry have discovered that a small segment of a protein that interacts with RNA can control the normal expression of genes ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 26, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study identifies proteins that modulate life span in worms

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a new group of proteins involved in determining the life span of laboratory roundworms. Blocking the expression of one member of the group can extend ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Harmful illusions bedevil ideas about free markets and imprisonment: professor

The United States prizes freedom above most other civic values, yet Bernard Harcourt believes the notion is widely misunderstood and inconsistently applied.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 97

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