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General Physics Dec 11, 2015

New optical technique able to detect a single radio signal amongst background noise

(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers with the University of California has found a way to pick out a single short radio signal burst among a barrage of background noise. In their paper published in the journal Science, ...

Plants & Animals Dec 1, 2015

Study finds 'rudimentary' empathy in macaques

(Phys.org)—A pair of researchers with Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Université Lyon, in France has conducted a study that has shown that macaques have at least some degree of empathy towards their fellow ...

Plasma Physics Nov 16, 2015

Accelerating fusion research through the cutting edge supercomputer

At the Inter-University Research Institute Corporation National Institutes of Natural Sciences National Institute for Fusion Science, for the first time in the world, using the newly installed "Plasma Simulator" we have simulated ...

Optics & Photonics Oct 28, 2015

A new physical mechanism allows 'phonon lasing' driven by optical forces at ambient conditions

Recent years have seen a steady increase in the number of research reports dealing with full control of phonons. The word "phononics" is slowly entering the scientific vocabulary to indicate a platform in which coherent phonons ...

Quantum Physics Oct 13, 2015

A resonator for electrons

Resonators are an important tool in physics. The curved mirrors inside the resonators usually focus light waves that act, for instance, on atoms. Physicists at ETH Zurich have now managed to build a resonator for electrons ...

Quantum Physics Sep 10, 2015

Entanglement lifetime extended orders of magnitude using coupled cavities

(Phys.org)—Entangled qubits form the basic building blocks of quantum computers and other quantum technologies, but when qubits lose their entanglement, they lose their quantum advantage over classical bits. Unfortunately, ...

Optics & Photonics Aug 27, 2015

Researchers develop atomic laser operating at the shortest wavelength yet

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with affiliations to several facilities in Japan has succeeded in developing an atomic laser that operates at the shortest wavelength yet. In their paper published in the journal Nature, ...

Nanophysics Aug 21, 2015

Novel nanostructures for efficient long-range energy transport

An interdisciplinary group of researchers from the Universities of Bayreuth and Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) report in Nature on nanofibers, which enable for the first time a directed energy transport over several micrometers ...

General Physics Jul 9, 2015

Physicists propose new definition of time crystals—then prove such things don't exist

(Phys.org)—For the past few years, physicists have been intrigued by a hypothetical system called a "quantum time crystal," which has the unusual property of exhibiting periodic motion in its ground state, which is its ...

General Physics Jun 3, 2015

Breakthrough in sFLASH seeding experiment

A team of researchers from DESY, the University of Hamburg and the Technical University of Dortmund has managed to demonstrate seeding by a procedure known as HGHG at the sFLASH test facility in April. "Seeding" is supposed ...

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