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Radio antennas made from Plasma
A new study revealed that radio antennas made from electrically contaminated gas are a device that captures anti-interference. Gas contaminated with electricity - or pla…
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Semiconductors of restricted area can be changed
A group of international physicists have for the first time created a semiconductor material with an energy gap between the valence band and the conduction band (band ga…
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Optical memory - from nanolaser to 1 Tbit / inch2
Researchers in the United States have just succeeded in creating a nanolaser device that converges a beam of light with a power of 200 nW into a small spot less than 35…
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Turn water into fuel
Last winter when inventor John Kanzius was trying to perform a feat that was as utopian as a radio-frequency machine - his device happened to bring another success: he d…
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Observe super-exchange interactions in cold atomic systems and optical networks
German and American physicists have for the first time observed the super-exchange interaction between atomic spins in an optical network. Super-exchange interaction is…
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Airy optical beam was first observed
For the first time, scientists have observed unusual optical beams called Airy rays. Unlike other light rays, Airy rays have the ability to maintain diffraction in a far…
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Uzbekistan boy invents car engine
Maruf Karimov, a 15-year-old student in the city of Samarkand (Uzbekistan) invented a car engine powered by a special fuel - compressed air.
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Define Ampere precision by one electron at a time
This is a new way of defining the standard ampere, unit of current, more precisely, built by physicists in Finland and the United States. The team is led by Jukka Pekola…
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Made of gold aluminum, black platinum and green silver with a laser machine
By using a tabletop laser, the University of Rochester optical scientists have turned pure aluminum into yellow, green, gray and other colors. All metals are t
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Rubber invention 'self-healing'
French chemists claim they have just created a rubber that can
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The hair revealed where the murder victim once drank water
Scientists at the University of Utah have studied a tool against new crimes by proving human hair that reveals where the person drinks water. Since then help police foll…
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Black hole created from light
Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr. Friedrich König used high-intensity light pulses to create an artificial 'event horizon' - a feature that identifies a black hole and is…
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Smart clothes track wearer's health
Clothing that can measure the wearer's body temperature or track the heart's activity has just appeared on the market, but Europe's BIOTEX project hopes to bring new fun…
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High-temperature superconducting materials based on iron
For more than twenty years, physicists have been unable to accurately explain the phenomenon of high-temperature superconductors, which seem to occur only in special gro…
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Metallic glass material is tougher than metal
Block metal glass materials have shown promise in engineering for more than 15 years but often have poor flexibility and toughness, and make them brittle and fragile. Bu…