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Recording data using heat could lead to faster, more efficient magnetic recording devices
For the past several decades, it has been assumed that in order to store data on a magnetic medium, a magnetic field must be applied. Recently, however, an international team of scientists discovered ...
10 hours ago from Gizmag
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Transparent iron? For the first time, an experiment shows that atomic nuclei can become transparent
At the high-brilliance synchrotron light source PETRA III, a team of DESY scientists headed by Dr. Ralf Röhlsberger has succeeded in making atomic nuclei transparent with the help of X-ray ...
15 hours ago from PhysOrg
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Unusual 'collapsing' iron superconductor sets record for its class
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland has found an iron-based superconductor that operates at the highest known temperature ...
20 hours ago from PhysOrg
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Quantum physicist explains $100K offer for proof scaled-up quantum computing is impossible
(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researcher Scott Aaronson has certainly riled the physics community with his offer this past Friday, of $100,000 to anyone who can prove that scaled-up quantum computing ...
20 hours ago from PhysOrg
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Threshold broken for tiny lasers
Researchers build efficient lasers just 100 billionths of a metre across that may be used to make faster computer chips in the future.
14 hours ago from BBC News
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Scientists create first free-standing 3-D cloak
Researchers in the US have, for the first time, cloaked a three-dimensional object standing in free space, bringing the much-talked-about invisibility cloak one step closer to reality.
Thu 26 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Obstacles no barrier to higher speeds for worms, researchers find
Obstacles in an organism's path can help it to move faster, not slower, researchers from New York University's Applied Math Lab at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences have found through ...
17 hours ago from PhysOrg
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The Unusual Physics of Floating Pyramids
When it comes to drifting through the air, top-heavy designs are more stable than bottom-heavy ones like pyramids. The finding may lead to robots that fly not like insects or birds but like ...
14 hours ago from Wired Science
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Japan Snares First Kavli Institute
The University of Tokyo announced today that the Kavli Foundation is giving $7.5 million...
17 hours ago from Science Now
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Physicists create first 'frequency comb' to probe ultraviolet wavelengths
Physicists at JILA have created the first "frequency comb" in the extreme ultraviolet band of the spectrum, high-energy light less than 100 nanometers (nm) in wavelength. Laser-generated frequency ...
Wed 1 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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