(PhysOrg.com) -- An Australian National University-led team has developed the most efficient quantum memory for light in the world, taking us closer to a future of super-fast computers and communication secured by the laws ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 24, 2010
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(AP) -- Sperm whales feeding even in the most remote reaches of Earth's oceans have built up stunningly high levels of toxic and heavy metals, according to American scientists who say the findings spell danger not only for ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 24, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A surprising MIT laboratory finding about the behavior of a thin sheet of material -- less than a thousandth of the thickness of a human hair -- could lead to improved ways of studying the behavior of electrodes ...
Materials Science
Jun 24, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and the Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology Freiburg have identified a novel protein complex that regulates around ...
Biotechnology
Jun 24, 2010
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Google said Thursday it was assessing the impact of a new Chinese rule on web mapping services, which state media said could exclude foreign companies from providing such services in the country.
Internet
Jun 24, 2010
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(AP) -- Twitter has agreed to settle charges by federal regulators that it put the privacy of its users at risk by failing to protect them from data security lapses last year that let hackers access their accounts.
Internet
Jun 24, 2010
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A young Frenchman accused of hacking into US President Barack Obama's Twitter account insisted at his trial on Thursday that he had done so for the common good.
Internet
Jun 24, 2010
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An international team of scientists including University of British Columbia astronomer Ingrid Stairs has discovered a promising way to fine-tune pulsars into the best precision time-pieces in the Universe.
General Physics
Jun 24, 2010
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German physicists have discovered a time delay when using light pulses to emit electrons from atoms. Until now, it has been assumed that the electrons start moving out of the atom immediately after the impact of the photons. ...
General Physics
Jun 24, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Some drugs may be more effective the longer they last inside the body. To prevent such drugs from being broken down too rapidly, pharmaceutical manufacturers often attach a fluorine-containing structure called ...
Biochemistry
Jun 24, 2010
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