Applied Physics

New World Record: Calculations With 14 Quantum Bits

Entanglement, the quantum mechanical phenomenon, was coined as a term by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 but is still not understood completely.    From an applied perspective, while entangled particles cannot be defined as single particles with defined states b ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2011 - 12:31pm

Why Does A Moving Bicycle Stay Up?

You know this already- given sufficient forward speed, a bicycle pushed sideways will not fall over. Since the bicycle was invented, s cientists have postulated various reasons as to why a bicycle is self stable above a certain speed.  The consensus has be ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2011 - 8:05pm

I Let My Computer Use My Brain

The most prestigious journal in the field of microscopy published an article by us this year and the work also already spawned a book chapter. Apart from the work not being critical of anything and having many cute pictures, the reason for it making it in ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 29 2011 - 3:34pm

Unobservable Universe, Unobservable Science

Science 2.0 is all about making a difference in a positive way, bringing lots of people in the world together to talk with each other about science.    We're the only open science site of decent size, meaning you don't have to be famous or bring ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 10 2011 - 2:56pm

A Tattoo That Can Monitor Your Brain Waves

Micro-manufacturing even the "Sons of Anarchy could love- a new type of ultra-thin, self-adhesive electronic 'tattoo' that can effectively measure data about the human heart, brain waves and muscle activity.  No bulky equipment, conductive ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2011 - 6:23pm

Electrocoalescence: Merging Microdroplets Using An Electric Field

In microfluidic devices, small separated droplets flow in a stream of carrier liquid. Occasionally, selected droplets have to be merged to carry out a chemical reaction, which can be greatly facilitated with the use of electric field through a process of e ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 24 2011 - 7:52pm

Chaos In A Coffee Stain

The ring-shaped stains of tiny dissolved particles, like a coffee stains from the bottom of a cup,  that develop after a liquid has evaporated hold a physics mystery- while the particles on the outside of the ring are neatly organized, chaos reigns on the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2011 - 10:33am

Redefining The Kelvin? Making Temperature A True Constant

We like to think some things are constant, like temperature, and they are as long as everyone agrees.  That does not mean they are accurate.  The metric system is a famous example of a flawed measurement that nonetheless became popular. Temperature is bas ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2011 - 12:37pm

Making A More Accurate Ampere

Efforts have long been underway to make the Système Internationale d'unités (SI Units) more accurate. If you know your science history, SI units were devised during the French Revolution as an alternative to the British System.   And so the French Ac ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2011 - 10:05am

Electrocrystallization Turns A Liquid Into A Solid

Electrocrystallization,  electric-field-induced phase transformation, predicts that under the influence of sufficiently high electric fields, liquid droplets of certain materials will undergo solidification, forming crystallites at temperature and pressur ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 11 2011 - 1:30pm