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Scientists reveal effects of quantum 'traffic jam' in high-temperature superconductors

August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 30 vote(s) | User comments: 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues at Cornell University, Tokyo University, the University of California, Berkeley, ...


Japanese physicists aim to unlock universe's mysteries

August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 31 vote(s) | User comments: 8

As the world's scientists try to unzip mysteries about the universe, Japan is set to open its largest atomic science park to study the world at its smallest level.


New immunization strategy could halve the doses for stopping computer virus spreading

August 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 23 vote(s) | User comments: 4

Researchers have developed a new immunization strategy that requires up to 50% fewer immunization doses compared with the current most efficient strategy. The new strategy could be used to prevent the spread of human epidemics ...


Ames lab physicist develops 'electrifying' theory on superconducting fault-current limiters

August 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s) | User comments: 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- John R. Clem, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, has developed a theory that will help build future superconducting alternating-current fault-current limiters ...


New theory for latest high-temperature superconductors

August 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 44 vote(s) | User comments: 2

Physicists from Rice and Rutgers universities have published a new theory that explains some of the complex electronic and magnetic properties of iron "pnictides." In a series of startling discoveries this spring, pnictides ...


Researchers explain odd oxygen bonding under pressure

August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 28 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Oxygen, the third most abundant element in the cosmos and essential to life on Earth, changes its forms dramatically under pressure transforming to a solid with spectacular colors. Eventually it becomes metallic ...


Magnetism and Superconductivity Observed to Exist in Harmony

9 hours ago | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 18 vote(s) | User comments: 2

(Physorg.com) -- Physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, along with colleagues at institutions in Switzerland and Canada, have observed, for the first time in a single exotic phase, a situation where magnetism and superconductivity ...


The hunt for the Higgs steps up a gear

10 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | User comments: 1

The hunt for the Higgs boson, the most highly sought-after particle in physics, received a boost this month with the release of two new results from the Tevatron particle collider at the US Department of Energy's ...


Superfluid-superconductor relationship is detailed

August 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 28 vote(s) | User comments: 3

Scientists have studied superconductors and superfluids for decades. Now, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have drawn the first detailed picture of the way a superfluid influences the behavior of a superconductor. ...


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