Industrial dye holds the key to advancing spintronics June 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Commonly used industrial dyes hold the key to advancing the new science of 'spintronics', say researchers working on a new a £2.5 million study. | |
 Researchers develop better X-ray nanomirrors June 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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A new way of bending X-ray beams developed by MIT researchers could lead to greatly improved space telescopes, as well as new tools for biology and for the manufacture of semiconductor chips. | |
 Liquid Crystals Slow Light Pulses to a Snail's Pace June 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 91 vote(s)
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In a vacuum, the speed of a light pulse is always a constant at 186,000 miles (300,000 km) per second. But by changing the medium through which light travels, physicists can slow down light pulses, and possibly ... | |
 Brightest X-ray Vision at the Nano-scale June 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Technology-development studies at Cornell University and Jefferson Laboratory are showing how to use the brightest X-ray light ever generated for the scientific examination of everything from human proteins ... | |
 New research shows how marine organisms help oceans sequester carbon June 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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As the international search for ways to remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the environment intensifies, a team of scientists has identified a process by which marine organisms influence ... | |
Can silver nanoparticles be the key to a more compact laser? June 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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“In random media, multiple scattering and interference reduce the diffusion of light, and in case of extremely strong scattering, photon localization, or Anderson localization of light, is predicted like electrons in glasses,” ... | |
 Surprising graphene: Honing in on graphene electronics with infrared synchrotron radiation June 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Graphene is the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon: a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in hexagons, like a sheet of chicken wire with an atom at each nexus. As free-standing objects, such two-dimensional ... | |
 A 'supra' new kind of froth June 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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To see the latest science of type-I superconductors, look no further than the froth on a morning cup of cappuccino. A team of U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory physicists and collaborating students ... | |
Europe gets together to harness quantum physics June 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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The long cherished goal of applying the strange properties of quantum mechanics to the macroscopic world we inhabit has been brought closer by a series of recent developments. The exciting progress was made in the important ... | |
 'Squeezed' Light May Improve Gravitational Wave Detectors June 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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A research collaboration has taken steps toward improving the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors, devices designed to measure distance changes as minute as one-thousandth the diameter of a proton. ... | |
New superconductors present new mysteries, possibilities June 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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Johns Hopkins University researchers and colleagues in China have unlocked some of the secrets of newly discovered iron-based high-temperature superconductors, research that could result in the design of better superconductors ... | |
 New Metamaterial a 'Perfect' Absorber of Light June 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 68 vote(s)
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A team of scientists from Boston College and Duke University has developed a highly-engineered metamaterial capable of absorbing all of the light that strikes it – to a scientific standard of perfection – ... | |
 Novel 'noise thermometry' may help redefine international unit of temperature June 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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After seven years of work, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have built a system that relies on the "noise" of jiggling electrons as a basis for measuring temperatures with ... | |
Terahertz laser source at room temperature June 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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“There is a growing interest in utilizing terahertz radiation, or T-rays, for a variety of applications,” Mikhail Belkin, a scientist at Harvard University, tells PhysOrg.com. “The terahertz region is a part of the ... | |
Finding out what the Big Bang and ink jets have in common June 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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It often turns out there is more to commonplace everyday events than meets the eye. The folding of paper, or fall of water droplets from a tap, are two such events, both of which involve the creation of singularities requiring ... | |
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