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Two rockets fly through auroral arc

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

After days of waiting for precise aurora conditions, a team from the University of Iowa finally saw the launch of its two scientific sounding rockets from Poker Flat Research Range. The NASA rockets launched Jan. 29, just ...





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Wizard at circuits, physics

Wizard at circuits, physics

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, uses his personal energy and understanding of physics to design innovative integrated circuits.


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: ...


How Perfect Can Graphene Be?

How Perfect Can Graphene Be?

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (30) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have investigated the purest graphene to date, and have found that the material possesses unprecedented high electronic quality. The discovery has raised the bar for this relatively ...


Black hole

A Newtonian system that mimics the baldness of rotating black holes

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- The rotating black hole has been described as one of nature's most perfect objects. As described by the Kerr solution of Einstein's gravitational field equations, its spacetime geometry is ...


Making magnetic monopoles, and other exotica, in the lab

Making magnetic monopoles, and other exotica, in the lab

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (25) | comments 21

Physicist Shou-Cheng Zhang has proposed a way to physically realize the magnetic monopole. In a paper published online in the January 29 issue of Science Express, Zhang and post-doctoral collaborator Xiao-Liang ...


Busy rocket season to launch at Poker Flat Research Range

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A total of eight National Aeronautics and Space Administration sounding rockets will launch from Poker Flat Research Range in 2009. The rocket season is split into two launch windows. The first launch window opens Jan. 10, ...


Quantum Cascade Laser

Researchers discover new type of laser

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 0

A Princeton-led team of researchers has discovered an entirely new mechanism for making common electronic materials emit laser beams. The finding could lead to lasers that operate more efficiently and at higher ...


Physicists investigate how time moves forward

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 05, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (155) | comments 56

As humans, we have a very intuitive concept of time, and of the differences between the past, present, and future. But, as scientists Edward Feng of the University of California, Berkeley, and Gavin Crooks of the Lawrence ...


The Lightness of Electrons in a Twisting Metal Crystal

The Lightness of Electrons in a Twisting Metal Crystal

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 25, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (24) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at Princeton University's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center has observed electrons moving through a crystal of bismuth metal behaving like light.


NSF awards grant to track 'space weather' in Earth's near-space environment

NSF awards grant to track 'space weather' in Earth's near-space environment

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 21, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Global and real-time "space weather" observations of near-Earth space--and the solar storms that can knock out electric power grids--is about to happen for the first time, thanks to funding from the National ...



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