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Research continues on secure, mobile, quantum communications

Researcher Dr. David H. Hughes of the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y. is leading a team investigating long-distance, mobile optical links imperative for secure quantum communications capabilities in theater.

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Artemis keeps talking the talk

(Phys.org) -- Although ESA’s Artemis telecommunications satellite has officially completed its mission, it still has plenty to offer. Reaching its working orbit almost 11 years ago after an arduous journey, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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Cricket swing theory does not hold water: study

The widely-held belief that moisture in the air during humid conditions helps make a cricket ball swing has been clean bowled in a scientific study.

Physics / General Physics

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Physicists store short movies in an atomic vapor

The storage of light-encoded messages on film and compact disks and as holograms is ubiquitous---grocery scanners, Netflix disks, credit-card images are just a few examples. And now light signals can be stored ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Autonomous-driving Volvo convoy takes road in Spain

(Phys.org) -- In the annals of “whatever happened to that big idea” is the 2009 announcement of road trains linking cars in a convoy, a scheme planned for Europe’s motorways. The lead vehic ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Efficient and tunable interface for quantum networks

(Phys.org) -- Quantum computers may someday revolutionize the information world. But in order for quantum computers at distant locations to communicate with one another, they have to be linked together in ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Photonics: strong vibrations

A new approach to generating terahertz radiation will lead to new imaging and sensing applications. The low energy of the radiation means that it can pass through materials that are otherwise opaque, opening ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers develop disposable paper-based touch pads

(Phys.org) -- Today, electronic touch pads are widely found on laptops, tablets, and other computing devices. Less common uses, but gaining in popularity, are book covers and food labels. These and other low-tech ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 22 | with audio podcast report

Redefining time

Atomic clocks based on the oscillations of a cesium atom keep amazingly steady time and also define the precise length of a second. But cesium clocks are no longer the most accurate. That title has been transferred ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 41 | with audio podcast

Study finds warm ocean currents cause majority of ice loss from Antarctica

Reporting this week in the journal Nature, an international team of scientists led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has established that warm ocean currents are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from A ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Turing was right: Two proteins fit decades-old prediction

Today, Alan Turing is best known as the father of modern computer science, but in 1952 he sketched out a biological model in which two chemicals — an activator and an inhibitor — could interact to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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