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Thursday, September 25, 2014

‘Cloaking’ device uses ordinary lenses to hide objects across range of angles : NewsCenter

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‘Cloaking’ device uses ordinary lenses to hide objects across range of angles : NewsCenter : “This is the first device that we know of that ...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Researcher shows that black holes do not exist

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Researcher shows that black holes do not exist : She and Hawking both agree that as a star collapses under its own gravity, it produces Hawk...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Evidence for cosmic inflation wanes | Science/AAAS | News

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Evidence for cosmic inflation wanes | Science/AAAS | News : Now, researchers from the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft have sho...
Friday, September 19, 2014

The Great Cold Spot in the cosmic microwave background

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The Great Cold Spot in the cosmic microwave background : The CMB cold spot is not particularly colder than other cold regions of the CMB, bu...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Defying physics, engineers prove a magnetic field for light

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Defying physics, engineers prove a magnetic field for light : When a light wave travels under normal conditions, its phase is proportional t...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

'Solid light' could compute previously unsolvable problems - ScienceBlog.com

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'Solid light' could compute previously unsolvable problems - ScienceBlog.com : To build their machine, the researchers created a str...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Type Ia supernovae stem from the explosion of white dwarfs coupled with twin stars

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Type Ia supernovae stem from the explosion of white dwarfs coupled with twin stars : A new model postulating the fusion of two white dwarfs ...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Inside the cell, an ocean of buffeting waves

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Inside the cell, an ocean of buffeting waves : The cytoplasm is actually an elastic gel, it turns out, so it puts up some resistance to simp...

Watch a swarm of 1000 mini-robots assemble into shapes - tech - 14 August 2014 - New Scientist

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Watch a swarm of 1000 mini-robots assemble into shapes - tech - 14 August 2014 - New Scientist : To do the assembling, the desired end shape...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Fields medallist: How Rubik's cube inspired new maths - opinion - 13 August 2014 - New Scientist

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Fields medallist: How Rubik's cube inspired new maths - opinion - 13 August 2014 - New Scientist
Monday, August 11, 2014

Scientists create artificial brain out of spongy goo | Science/AAAS | News

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Scientists create artificial brain out of spongy goo | Science/AAAS | News : The rings are engineered to mimic the structure and function of...
Saturday, August 9, 2014

Ask Ethan #49: Do the cosmic unknowns cast doubt on the Big Bang? — Starts With A Bang! — Medium

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Ask Ethan #49: Do the cosmic unknowns cast doubt on the Big Bang? — Starts With A Bang! — Medium :  ...all isotropic, homogeneous spacetimes...
Friday, August 8, 2014

IBM Scientists Show Blueprints for Brainlike Computing - MIT Technology Review

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IBM Scientists Show Blueprints for Brainlike Computing - MIT Technology Review : “Programs” are written using special blueprints called core...

Terahertz Chip Identifies Short Strands of DNA | MIT Technology Review

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Terahertz Chip Identifies Short Strands of DNA | MIT Technology Review : They say that the sequence of bases in an oligonucleotide determine...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014

‘Unparticles’ May Hold The Key To Superconductivity, Say Physicists — The Physics arXiv Blog — Medium

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‘Unparticles’ May Hold The Key To Superconductivity, Say Physicists — The Physics arXiv Blog — Medium : Georgi’s concept of unparticles come...
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Self-organising origami robot unfolds itself… and walks - tech - 07 August 2014 - New Scientist

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Self-organising origami robot unfolds itself… and walks - tech - 07 August 2014 - New Scientist
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Cool your jets: NASA's quantum spaceship is doubtful - space - 06 August 2014 - New Scientist

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Cool your jets: NASA's quantum spaceship is doubtful - space - 06 August 2014 - New Scientist : ...as Baez points out, this new device i...
Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Physicists eye neural fly data, find formula for Zipf's law

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Physicists eye neural fly data, find formula for Zipf's law : ...George Zipf... found that if you rank words in a language in order of t...
Monday, August 4, 2014

Don't Get Too Excited About NASA's New Miracle Engine

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Don't Get Too Excited About NASA's New Miracle Engine : [The researchers] hook up a gizmo with all sorts of electromagnetic fields f...
Friday, August 1, 2014

Fuel-Less Space Drive May Actually Work, Says NASA | Popular Science

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Fuel-Less Space Drive May Actually Work, Says NASA | Popular Science : The design is seemingly based on the EmDrive, which was originally cr...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

The Curious Evolution of Artificial Life | MIT Technology Review

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The Curious Evolution of Artificial Life | MIT Technology Review : He divides the history of Web-based artificial life into two periods: bef...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

How bird flocks are like liquid helium | Science/AAAS | News

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How bird flocks are like liquid helium | Science/AAAS | News : Using tracking software on the recorded video, the team could pinpoint when a...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Quantum split: Particle this way, properties that way - physics-math - 23 July 2014 - New Scientist

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Quantum split: Particle this way, properties that way - physics-math - 23 July 2014 - New Scientist : In Grenoble, the Vienna team used a fe...
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Black Holes Aren’t Black After All, Say Theoretical Physicists — The Physics arXiv Blog — Medium

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Black Holes Aren’t Black After All, Say Theoretical Physicists — The Physics arXiv Blog — Medium : Stephen Hawking proposed a potential solu...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Lasers make fibre optic tubes out of thin air - tech - 22 July 2014 - New Scientist

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Lasers make fibre optic tubes out of thin air - tech - 22 July 2014 - New Scientist : The team shone four lasers in a square arrangement, he...
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Sunday, July 20, 2014

White holes: Hunting the other side of a black hole - space - 20 July 2014 - New Scientist

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White holes: Hunting the other side of a black hole - space - 20 July 2014 - New Scientist : Perhaps the fact that we have found no signs of...
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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Quantum bounce could make black holes explode : Nature News & Comment

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Quantum bounce could make black holes explode : Nature News & Comment : The theory suggests that the transition from black hole to white...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Cosmologists Prove Negative Mass Can Exist In Our Universe — The Physics arXiv Blog — Medium

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Cosmologists Prove Negative Mass Can Exist In Our Universe — The Physics arXiv Blog — Medium : Today, Saoussen Mbarek and Manu Paranjape at ...

Meet the electric life forms that live on pure energy - life - 16 July 2014 - New Scientist

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Meet the electric life forms that live on pure energy - life - 16 July 2014 - New Scientist : Unlike any other living thing on Earth, electr...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

New Material, Darker Than Black, Could Help Space Cameras See Better | Popular Science

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New Material, Darker Than Black, Could Help Space Cameras See Better | Popular Science : Scientists make Vantablack by depositing carbon nan...
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Monday, July 14, 2014

First boron buckyballs roll out of the lab - physics-math - 14 July 2014 - New Scientist

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First boron buckyballs roll out of the lab - physics-math - 14 July 2014 - New Scientist : ...made a cage-like molecule with 40 boron atoms ...
Friday, July 11, 2014

How to Build an Evryscope | MIT Technology Review

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How to Build an Evryscope | MIT Technology Review : Their new gigapixel-scale telescope will be capable of photographing the entire sky simu...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Harnessing the speed of light | MIT News Office

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Harnessing the speed of light | MIT News Office : One of Fang’s key discoveries is finding how to beat the diffraction of light. Since light...
Monday, July 7, 2014

Seeker, Doer, Giver, Ponderer - NYTimes.com

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Seeker, Doer, Giver, Ponderer - NYTimes.com : James H. Simons... His passion... is basic research — the risky, freewheeling type. He recentl...

Tractor Beam Created Using Water Waves� — The Physics arXiv Blog — Medium

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Tractor Beam Created Using Water Waves� — The Physics arXiv Blog — Medium : This fluid jet carries any floating particles along with the wav...
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Friday, July 4, 2014

Tiny waves could build livers on a 'liquid template' - tech - 04 July 2014 - New Scientist

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Tiny waves could build livers on a 'liquid template' - tech - 04 July 2014 - New Scientist : After adding a handful of starter piece...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

Elastic Cloaking Material Makes Objects “Unfeelable” - Scientific American

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Elastic Cloaking Material Makes Objects “Unfeelable” - Scientific American : The unfeelability cloak is a so-called pentamode metamaterial, ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Hollow optical fibers for UV light

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Hollow optical fibers for UV light : Researchers... have tested a new type of optical fibre with a hollow core and have found out that this ...
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

A perfect negative crystal floating in space - 01 July 2014 - New Scientist

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A perfect negative crystal floating in space - 01 July 2014 - New Scientist : The octahedron is the outline of a space, and what looks at fi...

New metamaterial gives light a one-way ticket

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New metamaterial gives light a one-way ticket :  ...The silver-glass structure is an example of a "hyperbolic" metamaterial, which...
Monday, June 30, 2014

Study helps unlock mystery of high-temp superconductors

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Study helps unlock mystery of high-temp superconductors : "Evidence has been accumulating that this phase supports an exotic density wa...

Muscle-powered bio-bots walk on command | News Bureau | University of Illinois

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Muscle-powered bio-bots walk on command | News Bureau | University of Illinois : The new bio-bots are powered by a strip of skeletal muscle ...
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Sunday, June 29, 2014

Noninvasive brain control | MIT News Office

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Noninvasive brain control | MIT News Office : MIT engineers have now developed the first light-sensitive molecule that enables neurons to be...

Single-pixel 'multiplex' captures elusive terahertz images

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Single-pixel 'multiplex' captures elusive terahertz images : The team reports it developed a "multiplex" tunable spatial l...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Is time moving forward or backward? Computers learn to spot the difference | Science/AAAS | News

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Is time moving forward or backward? Computers learn to spot the difference | Science/AAAS | News : To find out, she and her collaborators br...
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Cambridge team breaks superconductor world record

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Cambridge team breaks superconductor world record : The Cambridge researchers managed to 'trap' a magnetic field with a strength of ...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Embrace the lumpiverse: How mess kills dark energy - physics-math - 25 June 2014 - New Scientist

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Embrace the lumpiverse: How mess kills dark energy - physics-math - 25 June 2014 - New Scientist : Wiltshire takes issue with the last of th...
Monday, June 23, 2014

First Evidence Of A Correction To The Speed of Light — The Physics arXiv Blog — Medium

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First Evidence Of A Correction To The Speed of Light — The Physics arXiv Blog — Medium : Because all previous speed-of-light calculations ha...

Clingy dark matter may slow the spin of corpse stars - physics-math - 23 June 2014 - New Scientist

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Clingy dark matter may slow the spin of corpse stars - physics-math - 23 June 2014 - New Scientist : Their strong magnetic fields gradually ...

Equations reveal the rebellious rhythms at the heart of nature

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Equations reveal the rebellious rhythms at the heart of nature : Physicists Dmytro Iatsenko , Professor Peter McClintock, and Professor Anet...
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