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A step closer to an ultra precise atomic clock

A step closer to an ultra precise atomic clock

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 7

A clock that is so precise that it loses only a second every 300 million years - this is the result of new research in ultra cold atoms. The international collaboration is comprised of researchers from the ...


Bouncing atoms may be the key to the future of gravimetry

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- When studying cold atoms, scientists often use magnetic or optical traps to keep the atoms in place. However, in some cases experimentalists want to study free atoms, avoiding the effects of a trap. "One ...


New Research Promises Better Atomic Clocks

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The most accurate timekeepers in the world are atomic clocks, which tell time based on the absorption of a very specific and unchanging microwave frequency, which induces electrons in an atom to “jump” from ...


Is random lasing possible with a cold atom cloud?

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Random lasing, Robin Kaiser tells PhysOrg.com, is like standard lasing, with a little bit of a twist: “You don’t know the direction the photons will go, as you do with a more standard laser. This is becaus ...





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Physicists see through the opaque with 'T-rays'

Physics / General Physics

created 4 hours ago | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

"T-rays" may make X-rays obsolete as a means of detecting bombs on terrorists or illegal drugs on traffickers, among other uses, contends a Texas A&M physicist who is helping lay the theoretical groundwork to make the concept ...


Transplant guide highlights daily infection risks from factors like pets and food

Medicine & Health / Other

created 4 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Keeping pets healthy can reduce infection risks for people who have received solid organ transplants and veterinarians should be seen as an integral part of the healthcare team. That's just one of the key pieces of advice ...


Caltech scientists discover fog on Titan

Scientists discover fog on Titan

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 5 hours ago | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, looks to be the only place in the solar system—aside from our home planet, Earth—with copious quantities of liquid (largely, liquid methane and ethane) sitting on its surface. ...


Acid oceans: the 'evil twin' of climate change (AP)

Acid oceans: the 'evil twin' of climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created 7 hours ago | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 6

(AP) -- Far from Copenhagen's turbulent climate talks, the sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters reposing along the shoreline and kelp forests of this protected marine area stand to gain from any global ...


Nanotech treatment gets boost with GSK licensing agreement

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created 20 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- GlaxoSmithKline and Ann Arbor-based NanoBio Corporation announced today that they have signed an exclusive over-the-counter licensing agreement for NanoBio’s unique nanoemulsion treatment for cold sores in ...


Glint of Sunlight Confirms Liquid in Northern Lake District of Titan

Glint of Sunlight Confirms Liquid in Northern Lake District of Titan

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 20 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini Spacecraft has captured the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn's moon Titan, confirming the presence of liquid on the part of the moon dotted with many large, ...


Heme channel found

Heme channel found

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 21 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In some ways a cell in your body or an organelle in that cell is like an ancient walled town. Life inside either depends critically on the intelligence of the gatekeepers.


Researcher studies the universe through quantum electrodynamics

Physics / Quantum Physics

created 22 hours ago | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fundamental constants, such as the standards for length and mass, are a given in our society. However, research has shown that these constants might be changing slightly with the expansion of the universe.


Beaming in on Warm Dense Matter (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created 22 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment II (NDCX-II) now under construction at Berkeley Lab will deliver a high-current pulse of lithium ions to a foil target almost simultaneously, momentarily heating ...


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Science's breakthrough of the year: Uncovering 'Ardi'

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

The research that brought to light the fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia, has topped Science's list of this year's most significant s ...



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