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Large Hadron Collider Sets Energy RecordSaturday, March 20, 2010 @ 11:31AMCERN scores another success with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), setting a record for highest energy yet achieved in a particle accelerator.

NY plants go to the moviesSaturday, March 20, 2010 @ 5:44AMNEW YORK – From "Avatar" to "Lord of the Rings" plants are no strangers to playing big movie roles, but no one's ever shot a film the plants themselves can watch. Until now.

Giz Explains: The Future Of StorageFriday, March 19, 2010 @ 5:16PMHard drives, DVDs, USB sticks: This is where we store our digital lives. But while our data is timeless, our storage devices aren’t. So, what’s next? And then what? (more…)

Quantum effect spotted in a visible objectThursday, March 18, 2010 @ 5:45PMAn important step towards testing Schrödinger's cat paradox

Macro-Weirdness: "Quantum Microphone" Puts Naked-Eye Object in 2 Places at OnceThursday, March 18, 2010 @ 5:02PMPORTLAND, Ore.--What's the sound of one molecule clapping? Researchers have demonstrated a device that can pick up single quanta of mechanical vibration similar to those that shake molecules during chemical reactions, and have shown that the device itself, which is the width of a hair, acts as if it exists in two places at once--a "quantum weirdness" feat that so far had only been observed at ...

Physics Press Conferences at Next Week's American Physical Society March MeetingThursday, March 18, 2010 @ 4:24PMThe following press conferences will take place during the March Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), to be held March 15-19, 2010 in the Portland Convention Center.

Discovery could pave the way for quantum computingThursday, March 18, 2010 @ 2:33PM(PhysOrg.com) -- Two experimental systems at the forefront of modern physics research -- a single trapped ion and a quantum atomic gas -- have been combined for the first time by researchers at Cambridge.

Scientists drag quantum mechanics into the visible realmWednesday, March 17, 2010 @ 3:01PMAll sorts of counterintuitive behavior happens with regularity in the quantum realm, but very little of that bleeds over into the world of classical mechanics that the human senses occupy. We can register the effects of the quantum behavior of electrons and atoms, but the actual objects that undergo tunneling and entanglement are invisible to the naked eye. In the last couple of years, however ...

Limits of quantum world stretchedWednesday, March 17, 2010 @ 2:31PMScientists have created the largest-ever "quantum state", a result that has implications for quantum physics and computing.