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Highlight: Capturing quasiparticles

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A physics research team from the University of St Andrews and Cornell University in the USA has managed to 'photograph' the traces left by orbiting electrons in a special oxide material, and their observations ...


A new technique identifies versions of the same song

A new technique identifies versions of the same song

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 4

A team of researchers from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF, Spain) has developed a system to identify common patterns in versions of songs, which will help to quantify the similarity of musical pieces. The technique, ...


Superstring theory useful for experimental physics

Superstring theory useful for experimental physics

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (24) | comments 9

Superstring theory aims to explain the laws of physics from extremely small strings in various states. Theoretical superstring theory is therefore normally not considered to be particularly relevant for practical ...


European astroparticle physicists to celebrate 100 years of cosmic ray experiments

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

From 10 to 17 October 2009, in France, Italy, Spain and many other countries, astroparticle physicists will meet the public to reveal some of the most exciting mysteries of the Universe. Within the first European Week of ...


Roadrunner supercomputer models nonlinear physics of high-power lasers

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

For years scientists have struggled with the difficult physics of inertial confinement fusion. This is the attempt to compress a target capsule containing isotopes of hydrogen with high-powered lasers to high enough pressure ...


Stretching opens up possibilities for graphene

Stretching opens up possibilities for graphene

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers say they have found a simple way to improve the semiconducting properties of the world’s thinnest material - by giving it a good tug.


Grant to Design Neutrino Detector

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A consortium led by UC Davis physics professor Robert Svoboda will design the world's largest neutrino detector under a $4.4 million contract recently awarded by the National Science Foundation.


The Physics Of A Bump In A Rug

The Physics Of A Bump In A Rug

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Scientists often have to make sacrifices for their work. Physicist Dominic Vella chopped his bathroom rug into strips, and L. Mahadevan's coauthor ran off with his bookshelf. With these sacrifices, these two ...


Astrophysicists Move Closer to Understanding the Beauty Behind Stellar Jets

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Certain stars stream vast amounts of matter into space, creating some of the most beautiful objects in astronomers' telescopes. But while the astronomers can enjoy the beauty, they can't explain it. Adam ...


New technology may cool the laptop, prof says (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 5

Does your laptop sometimes get so hot that it can almost be used to fry eggs? New technology may help cool it and give information technology a unique twist, says Jairo Sinova, a Texas A&M University physics professor.


PhD student solves decade-long mystery of magnetism

PhD student solves decade-long mystery of magnetism

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (31) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A PhD student from the London Centre for Nanotechnology has won a prize for solving a decade-long mystery central to understanding modern magnetic systems.


Nanotechnology gets a new light touch

Nanotechnology gets a new light touch

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Building the super-fast computers of the future has just become much easier thanks to an advance by Australian researchers that lets them grab hold of tiny electronics components and probe ...


bee

Physicist gets buzz from better bee behaviour model

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A physicist at the University of Manchester has paved the way for better research into how honey bees choose where to live.


Perfect image without metamaterials... and a reprieve for silicon chips (w/ Video)

Perfect image without metamaterials... and a reprieve for silicon chips (w/ Video)

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (17) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since 2000, John Pendry's work on metamaterials has been at the van guard of efforts to create a perfect image - images with perfect resolution that can stem from light being moved in odd ...


Schrodinger's cat

Schrodinger's Cat Experiment Proposed

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (39) | comments 39

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the classical problems in quantum mechanics concerns a man and his feline companion. The man has placed his cat in an opaque tank and is slowing pumping it full of poison. Now until ...