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Ginzburg helped develop the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb in the late 1940s and early 1950s

Russian bomb physicist Ginzburg dead at 93

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Nobel Physics prize winner Vitaly Ginzburg, who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died at age 93, the Russian Academy of Sciences said Monday.


Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms

Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, ...


Danish nanowires have great potential

Danish nanowires have great potential

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Danish nanophysicists have developed a new method for manufacturing the cornerstone of nanotechnology research - nanowires. The discovery has great potential for the development of nanoelectronics and highly ...


Pinning Down Superconductivity to a Single Layer

Pinning Down Superconductivity to a Single Layer

Physics / Superconductivity

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 26

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using precision techniques for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a single layer ...


Students demonstrate flux pinning in low gravity

Students demonstrate flux pinning in low gravity

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Cornell researchers recently tested their work on the mysterious physical phenomenon of flux pinning aboard a near-zero gravity aircraft.


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 3

(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.


The LHC tunnel

LHC now colder than deep space

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (28) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is once again colder than deep space as it is prepared for experiments to resume in late November.


Magnet Lab to Investigate Promising Superconductor

Physics / Superconductivity

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Applied Superconductivity Center at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory has received $1.2 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to understand and enhance a new form of superconducting ...


Race for Superconductors Shrinks to Nanoscale

Race for Superconductors Shrinks to Nanoscale

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from UT Dallas, Clemson University and Yale University are using science on the nanoscale to address one of the most elusive challenges in physics - the discovery of ...


Physicists Measure Elusive 'Persistent Current' That Flows Forever

Physicists Measure Elusive 'Persistent Current' That Flows Forever

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (58) | comments 16

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Yale University have made the first definitive measurements of "persistent current," a small but perpetual electric current that flows naturally through tiny rings of metal wire ...


For Future Superconductors, a Little Bit of Lithium May Do Hydrogen a Lot of Good

For Future Superconductors, a Little Bit of Lithium May Do Hydrogen a Lot of Good

Physics / Superconductivity

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have a long and unsuccessful history of attempting to convert hydrogen to a metal by squeezing it under incredibly high and steady pressures.


Rice awarded $5M for light-based crystal simulator

Rice researchers to build light-based crystal simulator

Physics / Superconductivity

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A Rice University-led team of physicists at seven U.S. universities has won $5 million from the Department of Defense to build a simulator capable of tackling high-temperature superconductivity, one of the ...


Strain on nanocrystals could yield colossal results

Putting a Strain on Nanowires Could Yield Colossal Results

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In finally answering an elusive scientific question, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown that the selective placement ...


Atoms don't dance the 'Bose Nova'

Atoms don't dance the 'Bose Nova'

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hanns-Christoph Naegerl's research group at the Institute for Experimental Physics, Austria, has investigated how ultracold quantum gases behave in lower spatial dimensions. They successfully ...


China tries to calm unease over rare earths curbs

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

(AP) -- A Chinese official tried to calm unease about curbs on exports of rare earths used in clean energy products and superconductors, saying Thursday that sales will continue but must be limited to reduce damage to China's ...