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Research group creates longer lived and more efficient quantum memory

(Phys.org) -- One of the main sticking points to creating a true quantum computer capable of performing meaningful work, is the problem of storing quantum state information in memory. Recent efforts have resulted in highly ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | 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

Jungle cats caught on camera in Belize

A camera trap survey, set up by scientists from Ya’axché Conservation Trust, has caught pictures of Central America’s two big cats: the jaguar and the puma (known locally as the red tiger).

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Students to demonstrate smart camera trap at new engineering competition

(Phys.org) -- Forget about building a better mouse trap. University of California, San Diego sophomore Riley Yeakle and his teammates have come up with a better camera trap, and they will be facing off with ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

First camera trap photos of rare leopard in China

The first-known camera trap photos of an Amur leopard in China have recently been taken by protected area staff in Hunchun Amur Tiger National Nature Reserve in Jilin Province according to the Wildlife Conservation ...

Biology / Ecology

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

Dance like a neutrino: Quantum scheme to simulate neutrino oscillations

The behaviour of some of the most elusive particles in the known universe can be simulated using three atoms in a lab, researchers at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University of Singapore have ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

New 'pendulum' for the ytterbium clock

The faster a clock ticks, the more precise it can be. Due to the fact that lightwaves vibrate faster than microwaves, optical clocks can be more precise than the caesium atomic clocks which presently determine ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

'Anti-atomic fingerprint': Physicists manipulate anti-hydrogen atoms for the first time (Update)

The ALPHA collaboration at CERN in Geneva has scored another coup on the antimatter front by performing the first-ever spectroscopic measurements of the internal state of the antihydrogen atom. Their results ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (30) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Building a better trap

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fieldwork in Peru’s Andes Mountains is demanding, especially when it involves hauling heavy equipment to remote sites that are accessible only by traversing the region’s rugged terrain.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brazil files suits against Twitter on police traps

The Brazilian government has filed a lawsuit against Twitter and its users in a bid to stop publication of messages alerting drivers to police speed traps and drunk-driving checkpoints.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists snare 'superprawn' off New Zealand

Scientists have captured a "supergiant" crustacean in waters seven kilometres (4.5 miles) deep off New Zealand, measuring 10 times the normal size of related species.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 8

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

Optical nanoantennas enable efficient multipurpose particle manipulation

University of Illinois researchers have shown that by tuning the properties of laser light illuminating arrays of metal nanoantennas, these nano-scale structures allow for dexterous optical tweezing as well ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Could Siberian volcanism have caused the Earth's largest extinction event?

Around 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian geologic period, there was a mass extinction so severe that it remains the most traumatic known species die-off in Earth's history. Although the cause ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Candid video clips from Thailand show anti-poaching efforts saving wildlife

Incredible camera trap video footage from the forests of Thailand have given conservationists confirmation that anti-poaching efforts in that country are paying off, according to the Wildlife Conservation ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0