Pentagon-supported physicists on Wednesday said they had devised a "time cloak" that briefly makes an event undetectable.
General Physics
Jan 4, 2012
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Stone Age cities sound like something of an oxymoron. But as many as 10 000 people lived in Çatalhöyük in Turkey some 8000-9000 years ago. This makes it the largest known settlement from what archaeologists call the Neolithic ...
Archaeology
Nov 9, 2021
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Physicists at the University of Geneva have succeeded in teleporting the quantum state of a photon to a crystal over 25 kilometers of optical fiber.
Quantum Physics
Sep 21, 2014
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The University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) is pioneering research into developing the strongest silica nanofibres in the world.
Nanomaterials
Jan 10, 2013
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The study, by researchers from Imperial College London, involves a new class of materials called metamaterials, which can be artificially engineered to distort light or sound waves. With conventional materials, ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 16, 2010
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New research done at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Huazhang University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, has exciting implications for secure data transfer across optical ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 24, 2020
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Optical fibres are our global nervous system, transporting terabytes of data across the planet in the blink of an eye.
Optics & Photonics
Aug 19, 2019
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Scientists revealed Sunday for the first time how some snakes can detect the faint body heat exuded by a mouse a metre (three feet) away with enough precision and speed to hunt in the dark.
Plants & Animals
Mar 15, 2010
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Researchers from the University of Southampton have revealed a breakthrough in optical fibre communications.
Optics & Photonics
Dec 19, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Researchers have developed a way for superconducting quantum chips to talk to each other over large distances through an optical fibre, allowing quantum entanglement or teleportation - both key steps towards ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 4, 2014
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