http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Mr Pradyumna Thiruvenkatanathan, a second year doctoral student in Engineering, is the recipient of the best student paper award in the sensors and transducers sub-field at the IEEE Frequency Control conference. The IEEE Frequency Control conference is a premier event highlighting research in the areas of frequency and timing, frequency control and related technologies including Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS). http://www.physorg.com/news171128812.html Technology Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:10:03 EST news171128812 (PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Vienna and Innsbruck, Austria, have created an interaction between light and a micromechanical resonator that is strong enough to transfer quantum effects. This is an important step towards quantum physics experiments in the macroscopic domain. They report about their result in the latest issue of the scientific journal Nature. http://www.physorg.com/news168771383.html Physics Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:57:26 EST news168771383 Light is intangible and, in addition, it travels at great velocity. Nevertheless, it can be confined to a very small space by controllably inserting light into a microscopic container surrounded by reflective walls. The light will then be stored by continuous reflections and cannot escape. In the scientific domain, such a small reflective microcavity is termed a microresonator. These microresonators find applications in all areas where the interaction between light and matter shall be enhanced and studied in a controlled manner. An important area of usage is, for example, the laser diode, which has revolutionized telecommunications and optical data storage in the past few decades. http://www.physorg.com/news168074155.html Physics Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:30:01 EST news168074155 Using devices millionths of a meter in size, physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a technique to determine the mass of a single molecule, in real time. http://www.physorg.com/news167490673.html Nanotechnology Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:11:57 EST news167490673 (PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum information processing is one of the hottest areas of science and technology right now. Making quantum information processing scalable is an important part of the efforts involved with regard to practical quantum computing. `By tuning the gap of a superconducting qubit, we can allow different types of coupling for use in quantum information processing,` Hans Mooij tells PhysOrg.com. http://www.physorg.com/news156769523.html Physics Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:05:56 EST news156769523 Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have recently reached what they are calling a milestone in experimental quantum mechanics. http://www.physorg.com/news137164506.html Physics Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:15:06 EST news137164506