• Energy
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • April 27th, 2012
Light-Emitting Solar Cells Display Incredible Efficiency

Light-Emitting Solar Cells Display Incredible Efficiency

Counterintuitive concept may be the key to harnessing the Sun's energy

Lasers Can Cancel Each Other Out

Lasers Can Cancel Each Other Out

New effect discovered by international scientific collaboration

Light Can Bend While Moving

Light Can Bend While Moving

The effect is subtle, but has significant practical applications

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • April 12th, 2012
How Middleweight Stars Shed Their Mass Before Dying

How Middleweight Stars Shed Their Mass Before Dying

This process remained mysterious to astronomers for many years

Superradiant Laser Created from 1 Million Rubidium Atoms

Superradiant Laser Created from 1 Million Rubidium Atoms

The novel device was developed by a collaboration of US researchers

Life Cannot Endure on the Surface of Europa

Life Cannot Endure on the Surface of Europa

Any potential organisms must live deep within the icy surface

Double-Slit Experiment Carried Out with 114-Atom Molecules

Double-Slit Experiment Carried Out with 114-Atom Molecules

This is the largest iteration of the famous experiment ever made

Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Do Not Exist

Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Do Not Exist

The cause of weird results pointing at other conclusions was identified

Solid-State Materials Can Produce Superfluorescence

Solid-State Materials Can Produce Superfluorescence

The hypothesis was recently confirmed in a new study

Light, Nanoscale Speakers Could Revolutionize Electricity Studies

Light, Nanoscale Speakers Could Revolutionize Electricity Studies

The two could be used to detect very weak electrical signals

Metamaterials Could Use Light to Stick to Other Surfaces

Metamaterials Could Use Light to Stick to Other Surfaces

Physicists propose the existence of a new force inside these materials

Macroscopic Quantum State System Possibly Created

Macroscopic Quantum State System Possibly Created

Such an achievement was not even thought possible until recently

Quantum Computing Switches to Holograms, Easier to Make

Quantum Computing Switches to Holograms, Easier to Make

The cost of building such systems might finally fall to approachable levels

Spin of Electrons on Topological Insulators Can Be Controlled

Spin of Electrons on Topological Insulators Can Be Controlled

Experts use light to change the elementary particles' spins

Optical Computers Are Nearly Upon Us

Optical Computers Are Nearly Upon Us

MIT researchers eliminate major obstacle in developing such devices

Weird, New Behavior of Light Detected

Weird, New Behavior of Light Detected

Photons streaming through tight openings behave unexpectedly

Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Confirmed Yet Again

Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Confirmed Yet Again

New studies were conducted based on scientific proposals

 
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