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New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law

New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (75) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers of the future could be operating not on electrons, but on tiny waves traveling through an electron "fluid," if a new proposal is successful. The new circuit design, recently introduced ...


A line on string theory

A line on string theory

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (46) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Harvard theoretical physicist has discussed with scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland the possibility that they may discover a theorized "stau" particle, with a lifetime ...


Scientists react as they stand in front of a screen at CERN

First atoms reported smashed in Large Hadron Collider (Update)

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (38) | comments 35

Two circulating beams on Monday produced the first particle collisions in the world's biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), three days after its restart, scientists announced.


First Neutrino Events Observed at T2K Near Detector

First Neutrino Events Observed at T2K Near Detector

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from the Japanese-led multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration announced today that over the weekend they detected the first events generated by their newly built neutrino beam ...


New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: ...


A view of a superconducting solenoid magnet at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva

CERN atom-smasher restarts after 14-month hiatus: official

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 0

The world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, restarted on Friday, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said.


Restored machine to explore mysteries of Big Bang (AP)

Restored machine to explore mysteries of Big Bang

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 27

(AP) -- Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.


LHC sets new world record

Large Hadron Collider sets new power world record

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- CERN's Large Hadron Collider has today become the world's highest energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV in the early hours of the ...


Advanced nuclear fuel sets global performance record

Advanced nuclear fuel sets global performance record

Technology / Energy

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (21) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Idaho National Laboratory scientists have set a new world record with next-generation particle fuel for use in high temperature gas reactors (HTGRs).


Cassini's Big Sky: The View from the Center of Our Solar System

Cassini's Big Sky: The View from the Center of Our Solar System

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Cassini spacecraft began orbiting Saturn five years ago, a dozen highly-tuned science instruments set to work surveying, sniffing, analyzing and scrutinizing the Saturnian system.


Researchers create 'synthetic magnetic fields' for neutral atoms

Researchers create 'synthetic magnetic fields' for neutral atoms

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Achieving an important new capability in ultracold atomic gases, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University ...


Crashing the size barrier

Crashing the size barrier

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 6

Like surfers on monster waves, electrons can ride waves of plasma to very high energies in a very short distance. Scientists have proven that plasma acceleration works. Now they're developing it as a way to ...


Spinons -- confined like quarks

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 2

The concept of confinement is one of the central ideas in modern physics. The most famous example is that of quarks which bind together to form protons and neutrons. Now Prof. Bella Lake from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (Germany) ...


INL develops safer, more efficient nuclear fuel for next-gen reactors

INL develops safer, more efficient nuclear fuel for next-gen reactors

Technology / Energy

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 6

As the nation ponders its energy choices, Americans keep asking themselves: how can the country make better use of its resources and emit fewer greenhouse gases without hurting U.S. industries? A research ...


Engineer Discovers Why Particles Like Flour Disperse on Liquids

Engineer Discovers Why Particles Like Flour Disperse on Liquids

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Even if you are not a cook, you might have wondered why a pinch of flour (or any small particles) thrown into a bowl of water will disperse in a dramatic fashion, radiating outward as if it ...