Scientists Demonstrate a Compact, Efficient Single Photon Source
Jerusalem (SPX) May 08, 2016 -
Quantum information science and technology has emerged as a new paradigm for dramatically faster computation and secure communication in the 21st century. At the heart of any quantum system is the most basic building block, the quantum bit or qbit, which carries the quantum information that can be transferred and processed (this is the quantum analogue of the bit used in current information syst ...
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Stochastic resonance, chaos transfer shown in an optomechanical microresonator
St. Louis MO (SPX) May 10, 2016 -
Researchers in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a novel route to encode chaos on light in an optomechanical microresonator system. An optomechanical microresonator system combines optics and mechanics in a very small area to study the nature and activities of light affected by the mechanical movement of the system.
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Machine learning accelerates the discovery of new materials
Los Alamos NM (SPX) May 10, 2016 -
Researchers recently demonstrated how an informatics-based adaptive design strategy, tightly coupled to experiments, can accelerate the discovery of new materials with targeted properties, according to a recent paper published in Nature Communications.
"What we've done is show that, starting with a relatively small data set of well-controlled experiments, it is possible to iteratively guid ...
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UNT researchers discover potential new paths for plant-based bioproducts
Denton TX (SPX) May 10, 2016 -
Plant science researchers at the University of North Texas have found potential new pathways for the creation of plant-based bioproducts. The research is outlined in a new article in the journal Nature Plants.
The UNT research team was working as part of the US Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center coordinated by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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From the atomic to the nuclear clock
Munich, Germany (SPX) May 10, 2016 -
Measuring time using oscillations of atomic nuclei might significantly improve precision beyond that of current atomic clocks. Physicists have now taken an important step toward this goal.
Atomic clocks are currently our most precise timekeepers. The present record is held by a clock that is accurate to within a single second in 20 billion years. Researchers led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Unive ...
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Ferromagnetism plus semiconductor equals spintronics
Washington DC (SPX) May 10, 2016 -
More, faster, better, cheaper. These are the demands of our device-happy and data-centered world. Meeting these demands requires technologies for processing and storing information. Now, a significant obstacle to the development of next-generation device technologies appears to have been overcome, according to researchers from the University of Tokyo (Japan), Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan ...
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Oil-eating bacteria came to the rescue after BP spill
Paris (AFP) May 9, 2016 -
Microscopic bacteria played a crucial role in the cleanup of the devastating 2010 BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill, scientists who decoded the genomes of the oil-eating organisms reported Monday.
The findings published in the Nature Microbiology journal suggest that certain bacteria have far greater potential for containing chemical pollution in the ocean than previously thought.
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