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Some fundamental interactions of matter found to be fundamentally different than thought

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 02, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (60) | comments 4

Collisions have consequences. Everyone knows that. Whether it's between trains, planes, automobiles or atoms, there are always repercussions. But while macroscale collisions may have the most obvious effects - mangled steel, ...





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Atomic Tug of War

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 02, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (38) | comments 4

A new form of energy-transfer, reported today in Nature (3 July 2008) may have implications for the study of reactions going on in the atmosphere, and even for those occurring in the body.


A leading edge camera for molecules

A leading edge camera for molecules

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 08, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (31) | comments 0

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, have visualised vibration and rotation in the nuclei of a hydrogen molecule as a quantum mechanical wave packet. What is ...


Laser wave steers electrons in chemical bonds

Laser wave steers electrons in chemical bonds

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created Apr 13, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0

As is now reported in Science, a team of scientists from the Netherlands (FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics) and Germany (Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching and the Universities of Bie ...


Neutrons Born In Lightning

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created Sep 21, 2005 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

To produce thermonuclear reaction it is necessary, firstly, to have nuclei with a large quantity of neutrons available, for example, deuterium nuclei, and secondly, these nuclei should possess sufficiently high velocity and ...


Researchers Observe Hydrogen-Bond Exchange

Researchers Observe Hydrogen-Bond Exchange

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created May 08, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (52) | comments 8

Hydrogen bonds are quite small, on the level of a few angstroms. They can also be passed between two different molecules very quickly, at speeds of tens of times per second. But in spite of these properties, ...


Physicists Devise New Technique for Detecting Heavy Water

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created Jun 13, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 1

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have created a new method of detecting heavy water that is 30 times more sensitive than any other existing method. The detection method could be helpful in the fight against ...


Scientists isolate new antifreeze molecule in Alaska beetle

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 4

Scientists have identified a novel antifreeze molecule in a freeze-tolerant Alaska beetle able to survive temperatures below minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Unlike all previously described biological antifreezes that contain ...


Molecular chords

Molecular chords

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created Nov 16, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (29) | comments 0

Max Planck researchers have for the first time analyzed the frequency of molecular resonance, in the same way as musicians analyze the notes of a chord. Their results have even been made audible.


Scientists take theoretical research on 'nasty' molecule to next level

Scientists take theoretical research on 'nasty' molecule to next level

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some atoms don't always follow the rules. Take the beryllium dimer, a seemingly simple molecule made up of two atoms that University of Delaware physicists Krzysztof Szalewicz and Konrad Patkowski ...


Scientists identify quantum differences between light and heavy water

Scientists identify quantum differences between light and heavy water

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created Aug 26, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (55) | comments 16

Scientists know that light water (H2O) and heavy water (D2O) have similar but not identical structures. Using quantum mechanics, researchers have recently identified several differences between the two water ...



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