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French scientists successfully built the Einstein box
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…
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Turn the light on and off with spin
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…
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Successfully manufactured the smallest organic light emitting device
To make the nano world brighter, a group of interdisciplinary researchers have produced extremely small nanoparticles - light-emitting nanofibers of a size
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10 unique inventions in 2006
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…
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Water acts as an 'optical switch' on light quantum circuits.
By using water to 'burn' light, scientists have designed a light quantum circuit inside one
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The cable turns light into electricity
Takanori Fukushita, a researcher at the University of Tokyo (Japan), said that the hollow cables they make are 16 nanometers in diameter and a few micrometres in length.…
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New generation organic molecules set a new record of light transmission capacity.
An international team of scientists from Washington State University, USA, University of Leuven, Belgium and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has synthesized and tested s…
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The lock is as small as a molecule
Israeli chemists have successfully fabricated a key-sized lock of a single molecule. This lock only works when it is exposed to a string of ciphers consisting of chemica…
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Sound pulses surpass the speed of light
A group of high school and college teachers and students succeeded in transmitting sound pulses at a rate faster than the speed of light, at least according to what we k…
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Storage techniques and light recovery
American physicists are now able to record a synchronized pulse of light into a set of supercooled atoms - and afterwards
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New technology speeds up data through optical fiber
Recently, researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said they have overcome a major obstacle on the track to achieve the full power of data exchange wit…
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Professor John Pendry's stealth machine
In 2018, we are at Imperial College in London, the world press is about to witness the first event on the planet. Soon, Professor John Pendry will present his latest inv…
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Acupuncture with ... light
Experts from the Institute of Materials Science and the Institute of Applied Technology have successfully built a four-channel acupuncture machine with a semiconductor d…
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The first form of matchsticks
The first form of matches was invented in 577 by the Northern Qi dynasties - a kingdom of short fortunes (550 - 577 AD), while the country was besieged. In the miserable…
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Technical advances of the lighthouse
When the lighthouses were automated, the final problem was how to make the technical team able to access them most quickly when inspecting, maintaining periodically or w…