News tagged with falling atoms
Bouncing atoms may be the key to the future of gravimetry
(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 ...
Apr 27, 2009 |
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With single laser pulses on single molecules
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at MPQ (Max Planck Institute) succeed in resolving the internal dynamics of individual molecules using UV femtosecond laser pulses.
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Many bodies make one coherent burst of light: Researchers see superfluorescence from solid-state material
In a flash, the world changed for Tim Noe – and for physicists who study what they call many-body problems. The Rice University graduate student was the first to see, in the summer of 2010, proof of a ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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Solving energy problems, one molecule at a time
Jeffrey Grossman says Cambridge has a better climate than California — for carrying out materials science research, that is. That’s why Grossman decided, two years ago, to make the move from the ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Does antimatter weigh more than matter? Lab experiment to find out the answer
Does antimatter behave differently in gravity than matter? Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have set out to determine the answer. Should they find it, it could explain why the universe ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Researchers define shape of enzyme linked to prostate, breast cancers
(Medical Xpress) -- A University of Kansas researcher has made a discovery that should lead to improved treatments for prostate and breast cancer.
Jan 25, 2012 |
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First atomic X-ray laser created
Scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and ...
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Waiting for Death Valley's Big Bang: A volcanic explosion crater may have future potential
In California's Death Valley, death is looking just a bit closer. Geologists have determined that the half-mile-wide Ubehebe Crater, formed by a prehistoric volcanic explosion, was created far more recently ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2012 |
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We may be less happy, but our language isn't
"If it bleeds, it leads," goes the cynical saying with television and newspaper editors. In other words, most news is bad news and the worst news gets the big story on the front page.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 12, 2012 |
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First Intel-powered smartphone to debut in China
US chip titan Intel on Tuesday announced it will move into the booming smartphone market with a China debut of a handset made by Chinese computer powerhouse Lenovo.
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Slippery when stacked: Theorists quantify the friction of graphene
(PhysOrg.com) -- Similar to the way pavement, softened by a hot sun, will slow down a car, graphene—a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon with wondrous properties—slows down an object sliding across its ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
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