Researchers from the RIKEN Frontier Research System have shown that vortices similar to those of “twisted light” can be produced in beams of electrons.Optical vortices can be made by passing a laser beam through a fork-shaped computer-generated hologram. Electron-beam vortices could be produced in a similar fashion, using a thin crystal plate with a dislocation. Such vortices could power nanomotors and nano-engines, or could be used in telecommunications by storing information in the optical vorticity, or the intensity of twisting. The vorticity is robust against perturbations, so this potential future technology could reduce the loss of information during optical communications. (Source: http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=4770.php)

- Quantum corkscrews from twisting electron waves

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- Air traffic operators fault maintenance
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Boasting used to be a very un-British trait - but these days it’s become a key part of getting on in work.

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- Tomato-killing virus detected in Calif.
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The number of new mortgages approved by the major banks fell to a new record low in June, and is down 67% on the year.

- Mortgage approvals hit fresh low

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Reducing carbon dioxide emissions from computers will be the aim of a new government taskforce.

- Taskforce to cut ‘cyber warming’

GPs in England spend almost 40% longer on each patient consultation than they did in 1992/93, research shows.

- Patients ‘get more time with GP’

Some of the most realistic virtual humans so far to appear on film and in computer games have been created by Electronic Arts and used to create virtual versions of the characters Neo, Agent Smith and Morpheus in the movie The Matrix Reloaded.The.

- Perfect clones, to the last computer-generated wrinkle

Electrodes have been implanted in the brain of Eric Ramsay, who has been “locked in” — conscious but paralysed — since a car crash eight years ago. These have been recording pulses in areas of the brain involved in speech and plan to use the si.

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