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Stock market network reveals investor clustering

(PhysOrg.com) -- The stock price of a company continuously changes, going up or down depending on the collective activity of a large number of investors. Although this process seems fairly straightforward, ...

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Eureka! Kitchen gadget inspires scientist to make more effective plastic electronics

One day in 2010, Rutgers physicist Vitaly Podzorov watched a store employee showcase a kitchen gadget that vacuum-seals food in plastic. The demo stuck with him. The simple concept – an airtight seal ...

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British team builds model showing metamaterials could be used to create gecko toe like adhesion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long been enamored by the gecko’s gravity defying ability to cling to walls and to let go at will, allowing it to walk around sideways, as have Spiderman enthusiasts. ...

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Lab team develops capability for atomistic simulations

(PhysOrg.com) -- Conventional scientific wisdom says that the interatomic forces between ions that control high-temperature processes such as melting are insensitive to the heating of the electron "glue" that ...

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Resolving controversy at the water's edge

Water (H2O) has a simple composition, but its dizzyingly interconnected hydrogen-bonded networks make structural characterizations challenging. In particular, the organization of water surfaces—a region cri ...

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Researchers demonstrate rare combination of electric and magnetic properties in strontium barium manganite

An electric field can displace the cloud of electrons surrounding each atom of a solid. In an effect known as polarization, the cloud centers move away slightly from the positively charged nuclei, which radically ...

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Chaos puts a path on nanoparticles

At just over seven feet tall, Shaquille O’Neal is easy to spot in crowd. But the individual virus structures that give him, and us, a cold aren’t so easy to see.

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Does antimatter weigh more than matter? Lab experiment to find out the answer

Does antimatter behave differently in gravity than matter? Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have set out to determine the answer. Should they find it, it could explain why the universe ...

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Scientists create first free-standing 3-D cloak

Researchers in the US have, for the first time, cloaked a three-dimensional object standing in free space, bringing the much-talked-about invisibility cloak one step closer to reality.

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Cosmology in a Petri dish

Scientists have found that micron-size particles which are trapped at fluid interfaces exhibit a collective dynamic that is subject to seemingly unrelated governing laws. These laws show a smooth transitioning ...

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Researchers observe speed of propagation in non-relativistic lattice

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers have devised a means for observing the speed with which quasiparticles can travel through an optical lattice. The experiment performed at the Max-Planck-Institut für ...

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Scientists shed light on magnetic mystery of graphite

The physical property of magnetism has historically been associated with metals such as iron, nickel and cobalt; however, graphite – an organic mineral made up of stacks of individual carbon sheets – has baffled ...

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Researchers suggest a proximate cause of cancer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Chemical Engineering are the first to show that mechanical property changes in cells may be responsible for cancer progression ...

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Speed limit on the quantum highway

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have measured the propagation velocity of quantum signals in a many-body system.

Physics / Quantum Physics

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Solving energy problems, one molecule at a time

Jeffrey Grossman says Cambridge has a better climate than California — for carrying out materials science research, that is. That’s why Grossman decided, two years ago, to make the move from the ...

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How wings really work

(PhysOrg.com) -- A 1-minute video released by the University of Cambridge sets the record straight on a much misunderstood concept – how wings lift.

First atomic X-ray laser created

Scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and ...

Study supports role of quantum effects in photosynthesis

(PhysOrg.com) -- Until a few years ago, photosynthesis seemed to be a straightforward and well-understood process in which plants and other organisms use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars, ...

World's most powerful X-ray laser creates two-million-degree matter

Researchers working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to create and probe a two-million-degree piece of matter in a controlled way for the first time. ...

JQI cool nano loudspeakers could makes for better MRIs, quantum computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), the Neils Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Harvard University has developed a theory describing how to both detect weak ...

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Hacking the SEM: Crystal phase detection for nanoscale samples

(PhysOrg.com) -- Custom modifications of equipment are an honored tradition of the research lab. In a recent paper, two materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology describe how ...

Guinness World Record: DESY's X-ray laser FLASH shoots fastest movie

It's official: The world's fastest movie was shot by DESY's X-ray laser FLASH in Hamburg, Germany.

Method that can validate nuclear collision models benefits IAEA

A novel technique for materials research is unexpectedly also contributing to the nuclear safety efforts of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientist Dr. Weilin ...

Crystallizing the future of oxide materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Arkansas physicist and his colleagues have examined the challenges facing scientists building the next generation of materials and innovative electronic devices and identified ...

Rice lab mimics Jupiter's Trojan asteroids inside a single atom

Rice University physicists have gone to extremes to prove that Isaac Newton's classical laws of motion can apply in the atomic world: They've built an accurate model of part of the solar system inside a single ...


Making memories last: Prion-like protein plays key role in storing long-term memories

What drove the lunar dynamo? Moon's molten core was likely sustained by alternative power source

Blind moles use beauty for function, not fancy

Report: Facebook IPO filing could come next week

Study offers new information for flu fight

Grape seed extract kills head and neck cancer cells, leaves healthy cells unharmed

Jumping spider uses fuzzy eyesight to judge distance

Light but stable: novel cellulose-silica gel composite aerogels

SUMO-snipping protein plays crucial role in T and B cell development

Bitdefender researchers find evidence of viruses infecting worms creating new form of malware

What really happened prior to 'Snowball Earth'?

Investors clamor for Facebook's IPO

New study shows prions able to jump between species more easily than thought

Consumers in the middle of battle over Internet privacy

West takes Internet freedom for granted: Google boss

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