Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 15, 2016
Virtual Reality Check: Reporter spends week with VR system
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Quantum Physics
Apr 1, 2016
All quantum communication involves nonlocality
Researchers of CWI, University of Gdansk, Gdansk University of Technology, Adam Mickiewicz University and the University of Cambridge have proven that quantum communication is based on nonlocality. They show that whenever ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 4, 2016
Star Trek's vision becomes reality
"Beam me up, Scotty" - even if Captain Kirk supposedly never said this exact phrase, it remains a popular catch-phrase to this day. Whenever the chief commander of the television series starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 8, 2016
Nanoscale cavity strongly links quantum particles
Scientists have created a crystal structure that boosts the interaction between tiny bursts of light and individual electrons, an advance that could be a significant step toward establishing quantum networks in the future.
Computer Sciences
Feb 8, 2016
Search engines will know what you want ... sooner
If you enter "Oklahoma" in a search engine, you might get a travelogue, news about the oil industry, Oklahoma State football scores or an article on Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals. What appears at the top of the list might ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 14, 2016
Physicists propose the first scheme to teleport the memory of an organism
In "Star Trek," a transporter can teleport a person from one location to a remote location without actually making the journey along the way. Such a transporter has fascinated many people. Quantum teleportation shares several ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 5, 2016
New material for detecting photons captures more quantum information
Detecting individual particles of light just got a bit more precise—by 74 picoseconds to be exact—thanks to advances in materials by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers and their colleagues in ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 7, 2015
Einstein's 'spooky' steering needed for secure quantum teleportation
'Teleportation' – the word evokes images of the fictional Star Trek universe where humans and objects are 'beamed' to another location.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 17, 2015
Facebook gives sneak peek into sci-fi future
Mike Schroepfer is sitting in a conference room inside Facebook's Frank Gehry-designed headquarters. His ultra-modern surroundings—22-foot ceilings, raw steel beams, polished concrete pathways that flow through acres of open ...
Astronomy
Nov 10, 2015
UCLA professor proposes simpler way to define what makes a planet
Since the late 1980s, scientists have discovered nearly 5,000 planetary bodies orbiting stars other than the sun. But astronomers are still working on what exactly we should call them.
