News tagged with macroscopic level

Physicists Explain How Human Eyes Can Detect Quantum Effects

(PhysOrg.com) -- By greatly amplifying one photon from an entangled photon pair, physicists have theoretically shown that human eyes can be used as detectors to observe quantum effects. Usually, detecting ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (48) | comments 19 feature




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Tasting carbon with WAFT'ed light: New instrument analyzes tiny samples at low pressure and temperature

(Phys.org) -- When delving into the nuances of carbon dioxide, a new instrument designed by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory "sips" the sample and reveals information about the source of ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Internet censorship revealed through the haze of malware pollution

On a January evening in 2011, Egypt – with a population of 80 million, including 23 million Internet users – vanished from cyberspace after its government ordered an Internet blackout amidst anti-government protests ...

Technology / Internet

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Why we've got the cosmological constant all wrong

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some scientists call the cosmological constant the "worst prediction of physics." And when today’s theories give an estimated value that is about 120 orders of magnitude larger than the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (41) | comments 152 | with audio podcast feature

Keeping it together: Protecting entanglement from decoherence and sudden death

(PhysOrg.com) -- Decoherence can be metaphorically seen as a quantum fall from grace: When quantum bits, or qubits, are in superposition – such as a single qubit simultaneously having both 1 and 0 values ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

A study describes liquid water diffusion at molecular level

An article published in Physical Review E and conducted by Spanish researchers at the universities of Granada and Barcelona might lead to a revolutionary change in water desalination and filtration methods.

Physics / Soft Matter

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Modeling microbes to manage carbon dioxide

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the past decade, microbiologists began realizing that communities of microbes process energy and materials, which affects their environments. To understand how microbial communities function ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shearing triggers odd behavior in microscopic particles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microscopic spheres form strings in surprising alignments when suspended in a viscous fluid and sheared between two plates — a finding that will affect the way scientists think about ...

Physics / Soft Matter

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

Twisting molecules by brute force: A top-down approach

Molecules that are twisted are ubiquitous in nature, and have important consequences in biology, chemistry, physics and medicine. Some molecules have unique and technologically useful optical properties; the medicinal properties ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

In the quantum world, diamonds can communicate with each other

Researchers working at the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford in England have managed to get one small diamond to communicate with another small diamond utilizing "quantum entanglement," one ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (33) | comments 96 | with audio podcast

Researchers demonstrate earthquake friction effect at the nanoscale

(PhysOrg.com) -- Earthquakes are some of the most daunting natural disasters that scientists try to analyze. Though the earth's major fault lines are well known, there is little scientists can do to predict ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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