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Tel Aviv University Researcher Stays One Step Ahead of New Threats to Online Security

The first desktop computers changed the way we managed data forever. Three decades after their introduction, we rely on them to manage our time, social life and finances ? and to keep this information safe from prying eyes and online predators.

30 Jul 2009

Theory, Applications and Fabrication of Photonic Crystals

Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Photonic Crystals, Theory, Applications and Fabricat...

From Research and Markets 30 Jul 2009

Novel Approach Offers Insight into Protein Structure

John Spence, a physicist at Arizona State University, is a longtime user of the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he has contributed to major advances in lensless imaging. It's a particularly apt propensity for someone who works with x-rays, since they can't be focused with ordinary lenses.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 29 Jul 2009

Physicists Develop Device for Storage of Light

Light is intangible and, in addition, it travels at great velocity. Nevertheless, it can be confined to a very small space by controllably inserting light into a microscopic container surrounded by reflective walls.

29 Jul 2009

Nanolaser Opens up Diverse Possibilities for Improving Integrated Communications Devices and Medical Imaging

We could soon see the potential of laser technology expand dramatically. Ways to make lasers smaller are being discovered through collaborative efforts of researchers at Arizona State University and Technical University ...

28 Jul 2009

National Physical Laboratory signs Collaboration Agreement with University of Surrey

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Surrey have signed an agreement to collaborate on the delivery of a GBP10m programme to translate the results of research into innovation that makes a real-wor...

28 Jul 2009

Founder Professor Leads Colleagues in Rethinking Brownian Motion

In similar fashion, researchers at the University of Illinois have now revealed the naked truth about a classic bell-shaped curve used to describe the motion of a liquid as it diffuses through another material.

27 Jul 2009

Making Invisibility a Reality

One of the first things that come to mind when thinking about Harry Potter and his cloak is ... invisibility. Researchers in Spain have developed a device that makes objects invisible under a certain kind of light. Calle...

27 Jul 2009

Small Green Beetle Teaching Scientists about Optics and Liquid Crystals

A small green beetle may have some interesting lessons to teach scientists about optics and liquid crystals - complex mechanisms the insect uses to create a shell so strikingly beautiful that for centuries it was used in jewelry.

24 Jul 2009

Physicist Studies Nano-Sized Earthquake Triggered by Laser

With the "Reinhard Koselleck-Program" the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG) has an independent funding scheme for especially innovative and risky research since 2008. Now the experimental physicist Prof. Ma...

23 Jul 2009