Border stand-off overshadows China leader's India trip
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 18, 2014 -
Indian and Chinese leaders pledged Thursday to resolve a long-running border dispute that led to a bloody 1962 war, as a stand-off between troops on the remote frontier overshadowed a rare summit in New Delhi.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he had expressed concerns to China's visiting President Xi Jinping about "incidents" on the disputed border in the northern Ladakh region, whe ...
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UCI team is first to capture motion of single molecule in real time
Irvine CA (SPX) Sep 18, 2014 -
UC Irvine chemists have scored a scientific first: capturing moving images of a single molecule as it vibrates, or "breathes," and shifts from one quantum state to another. The groundbreaking achievement, led by Ara Apkarian, professor of chemistry, and Eric Potma, associate professor of chemistry, opens a window into the strange realm of quantum mechanics - where nanoscopic bits of matter seemi ...
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Making quantum dots glow brighter
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 18, 2014 -
Researchers from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the University of Oklahoma have found a new way to control the properties of quantum dots, those tiny chunks of semiconductor material that glow different colors depending on their size.
Quantum dots, which are so small they start to exhibit atom-like quantum properties, have a wide range of potential applications, from sensors, ...
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Three's a charm: NIST detectors reveal entangled photon triplets
Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 18, 2014 -
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada have directly entangled three photons in the most technologically useful state for the first time, thanks in part to superfast, super-efficient single-photon detectors developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Entanglement is a special feature of the quantum world in which certain properties of individual par ...
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Elusive quantum transformations found near absolute zero
Upton NY (SPX) Sep 18, 2014 -
Heat drives classical phase transitions-think solid, liquid, and gas-but much stranger things can happen when the temperature drops. If phase transitions occur at the coldest temperatures imaginable, where quantum mechanics reigns, subtle fluctuations can dramatically transform a material.
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook Univer ...
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One killed in fresh Serbia, Croatia floods
Belgrade (AFP) Sept 15, 2014 -
One woman was killed on Monday after heavy rains brought renewed flooding to Serbia, four months after record floods killed almost 80 in the Balkans, local media reported.
The eastern village of Tekija, on the right bank of the Danube, was among the worst affected. More than 300 of the village's roughly 1,000 residents had to be evacuated, police said in a statement.
The surging waters c ...
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Australian PM Abbott to skip UN climate summit
Sydney (AFP) Sept 16, 2014 -
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who recently abolished a carbon tax on greenhouse gas emissions, said Tuesday he would skip a United Nations climate change summit attended by 125 other world leaders.
Abbott will be in New York soon after the September 23 talks but has decided to miss the one-day meeting to attend parliament in Canberra.
"My first duty in a sense is to the Australi ...
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