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Particle physics is not just black holes and antimatter
May 28, 2009 |
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Particle physics saves lives, connects continents through new channels of communication, helps us understand the world around us and inspires tomorrow's leaders.
What if there is only one universe?
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lee Smolin, author of the bestselling science book The Trouble with Physics and a founding member and research physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, ...
Big prize for 'small science' physicist
May 07, 2009 |
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CSIRO scientist, Dr Amanda Barnard, has been awarded the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) 2009 Young Scientist Prize in Computational Physics.
Lessons from Schon -- the worst physics fraudster?
May 05, 2009 |
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How did a 31-year-old physicist working at Bell Labs in New Jersey, US, get away with possibly the worst case of physics research fraud known? From claims to have made the world's first organic electrical laser to the fictional ...
French physicists claim breakthrough in ultra-fast data access
May 31, 2009 |
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French physicists said on Sunday they had used ultra-fast lasers that could accelerate storage and retrieval of data on hard discs by up to 100,000 times, pointing the way to a new generation of IT wizardry.
Scientists discover giant Rydberg atom molecules
Jun 24, 2009 |
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A group of University of Oklahoma researchers led by Dr. James P. Shaffer, Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, have discovered giant Rydberg molecules with a bond as large as a red blood cell. Determining ...
Researchers putting a freeze on oscillator vibrations
Jun 17, 2009 |
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University of Oregon physicists have successfully landed a one-two punch on a tiny glass sphere, refrigerating it in liquid helium and then dosing its perimeter with a laser beam, to bring its naturally occurring mechanical ...
Scientists create first electronic quantum processor
Jun 28, 2009 |
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A team led by Yale University researchers has created the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, taking another step toward the ultimate dream of building a quantum computer.
Breakthrough in radiotherapy promises targeted cancer treatment
May 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Current radiation therapy treatment damages a patient's healthy tissue as well as eradicating the tumour it is intended to destroy, making the treatment especially invasive and often causing nasty side effects.
Researchers discover new fluorescent silicon nanoparticles
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester have developed a new synthesis method, which has led them to the discovery of fluorescent silicon nanoparticles and may ...
Nvidia Adds Five New GPU's to Their Mobile Line
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Nvidia adds five new GPU's to their mobile GeForce lineup. These new chips have up to twice the performance and half the power consumption of previous chips.
Officials break ground for the world's most advanced neutrino experiment
May 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Construction begins this month on a cutting-edge physics laboratory in northern Minnesota, supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota ...
Seeing beyond the invisible: Scientists find formula to uncover our planet’s past and help predict its future
May 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies of climate evolution and the ecology of past-times are often hampered by lost information - lost variables needed to complete the picture have been long thought untraceable but scientists ...
The Earth's magnetic field remains a charged mystery
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 15, 2009 |
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400 years of discussion and we’re still not sure what creates the Earth’s magnetic field, and thus the magnetosphere, despite the importance of the latter as the only buffer between us and deadly solar wind ...
Evidence of macroscopic quantum tunneling detected in nanowires
May 27, 2009 |
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A team of researchers at the University of Illinois has demonstrated that, counter to classical Newtonian mechanics, an entire collection of superconducting electrons in an ultrathin superconducting wire is ...
