Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated entanglement—a phenomenon peculiar to the atomic-scale quantum world—in a mechanical system similar to those in the macroscopic everyday world. The work extends the boundaries of the arena where quantum behavior can be observed and shows how laboratory technology might be scaled up to build a functional quantum computer.
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 Light becomes polarized in detectable ways when reflected from chlorophyll and other chiral molecules necessary to life, so scientists working at NIST have built a device that can detect this polarization—potentially offering a way to find extraterrestrial life from great distances.
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 A new lunar topography map with the highest resolution of the moon's rugged south polar region provides new information on some of our natural satellite's darkest inhabitants - permanently shadowed craters.
NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory and its Taurus booster lift off from Vandenberg Air Force Base. A contingency was declared a few minutes later.
Data analytics gives law enforcement and intelligence agencies powerful tools that still protect privacy and civil liberties.
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 The Space Power Facility at NASA Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, houses the world's largest vacuum chamber. It measures 100 feet in diameter and is a towering 122 feet tall. The facility is currently undergoing construction to support Orion crew exploration vehicle testing in 2010.
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 Duke researchers connect important genetic variation to malaria resistance.
Analyzing several years' worth of results from Fermilab's Tevatron collider, physicists come up with the most accurate measurement to date of the mass of the W boson, and narrow down the possible mass of the still undiscovered Higgs boson.
 Flexible web of micro-sensors enables eye-shaped camera, heralds new class of electronics technology that can conform to almost any shape
 For centuries, people have preserved fruit by mixing it with sugar, making thick jams that last for months without spoiling. Now scientists have discovered a fundamental property of mixture behavior that might help extend the life of many things including vaccines, food and library books—and save money while doing it.
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 Marrying a sensitive detector technology capable of distinguishing hundreds of different chemical compounds with a pattern-recognition module that mimics the way animals recognize odors, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have created a new approach for “electronic noses.”
 Scientists at the University of Konstanz (Germany) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (United States), have demonstrated an ultrafast laser that offers a record combination of high speed, short pulses and high average power.
The new laser is expected to have a range of applications from gas sensors to communications, but in particular, say researchers, it could boost the sensitivity of astronomical tools searching for other Earthlike planets as much as 100 fold.
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NASA TV
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English Edition. July 4, 2009
