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4,200 scientific and building materials experts from 68 countries attended the March 2007 Orlando Convention (Florida) Exhibition to vote on the inventions of the greate…
Each time you turn on a light bulb, there is the energy of 10 to 15 visible photons, the fundamental particles of light, that will illuminate the room every second. If t…
From 1927, Albert Einstein once thought of a box to trap light. At that time, his idea was still a proposed fictional experiment to test the relationship between mass an…
Mathematicians have mapped the inner workings of one of the most complex structures ever studied: this object is the unusual Lie E8 structure. This achievement is very m…
A strong electric field from a strong laser pulse can cause the electron to tunnel out of the atom within a millionth of a second. Recently, German physicists have for t…
Canadian and US researchers have released information about a new material that can turn off or open the light beam by changing the spin polarization of electrons in the…
To make the nano world brighter, a group of interdisciplinary researchers have produced extremely small nanoparticles - light-emitting nanofibers of a size
Newton's law is considered the pillar of classical physics. When the introduction of new theories such as Theory of Relativity and Quantum Theory, many people still doub…
Scientists at the National Laboratory for Renewable Energy (NREL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (NLBL) have designed a new type of nanowire - a kind of tiny…
US researchers have found a different method than traditional to create magnetic resonance images to observe objects with resolutions up to 90 nm. The best traditional n…
2006 is an exciting year in technology. Nintendo invented a video game that allowed participants to control with a wand, a newly invented car that could run 5.060km with…
Imagine what your life would be like if you didn't have a radio, if you didn't watch TV one day? Receiving information on the radio is a habit, an important part of your…
Unmanned aircraft (MBKNL) seems to have truly replaced the classic fleet. Its benefits are enormous. If one is shot down, one only takes a pile of iron worth about 3 mil…
Inventor (American Inventor) has published a list of the most unique inventions in 2006 voted by technology readers. Whether complicated or simple, these inventions are…
After more than four years of hard work, scientists from the Institute of Physics and Electronics (Vietnam Institute of Science and Technology) have successfully researc…