- Unromantic Engineers Figure Out How To Catch Rainbows
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... a more efficient way to catch rainbows, an advancement in photonics that could lead to technological breakthroughs in solar energy, ...
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- New organic material may speed Internet access
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... description of this material was published on the Nature Photonics Web site March 15. The material, which is composed of small ... that includes scientists from the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, ...
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- End-Run Around The Diffraction Limit: Shrinking Light To Billionths Of A Meter
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... computing, or communication. Published in Nature Photonics (Optics) ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2012 - 7:00am - 0 attachments
- Storing Solar Energy As Hydrogen Using Rust And Water
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... energy source for the future. Published in Nature Photonics . (Energy) ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2012 - 6:57pm - 0 attachments
- Has A Fish ‘Broken’ A Law Of Physics?
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... can be seen in the (admittedly commercial) online Photonics Handbook . But can one design a multilayer to be effectively ... T.M. Jordan, J.C. Partridge and N.W. Roberts in Nature Photonics DOI: 10.1038/NPHOTON.2012.260 (Applied Physics) ...
Article - Robert H Olley - Nov 5 2012 - 11:43am - 0 attachments
- Wheeler’s Utterly Simple Idea That Demands The Quantum
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The physicist John Archibald Wheeler wrote in 1984: “ ...the most revolutionary discovery in science is yet to come! And come, not by questioning the quantum, but by uncovering that utterly simple idea that demands the quantum . ” Wheeler, 1 ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 4 2012 - 9:34am - 0 attachments
- Multiverse: A Religion ?
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Last Saturday night Gian Francesco Giudice and I discussed the discovery of the Higgs boson and its aftermath in front of a wide audience gathered in the Aula Magna of Mantova University. The event was #173 in the wide program of the town's lite ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 12 2012 - 1:33pm - 0 attachments
- The Semi-Elusive Fatalism Gene In Biologists
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A review of Dr Lonnie W Aarssen's “Some Bold evolutionary predictions for mating in humans” Quite often papers are published which get slated for being “politically incorrect” I recently witnessed a rather interesting example of that. However when readi ...
Article - Sophia Siedlberg - Sep 25 2007 - 1:56pm - 0 attachments
- Next Step In Robotics: A Star Wars Imperial Walker
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Some new research out of the Dynamic Robotics Laboratory at Oregon State University could have practical, humanitarian uses, like prosthetic limbs for humans or helping people in wheelchairs gain 'walking' mobility. It could also be used for awesome ...
Article - Hank Campbell - May 18 2012 - 2:14pm - 0 attachments
- Interview: Professor Otto Rössler Takes On The LHC
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On the vast CERN landscape outside Geneva, there’s only one figure in science tilting at the LHC windmill, Dr Otto E Rössler(Roessler). An aged veteran with some 300 research papers under his belt, sometimes called the father of Chaos theory, he looks ...
Blog Post - Alan Gillis - Apr 10 2012 - 7:31pm - 2 attachments