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Study Yields Surprising New Insight into High-Temp Superconductors

Physics / Superconductivity

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 135

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, an international group of researchers discovered that the underlying mechanism producing high-temperature superconductivity in a widely studied class of copper-oxygen-based superconductors may be ...


'Single-Crystal' Superconductors are a Big Step for the Field

'Single-Crystal' Superconductors are a Big Step for the Field

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 28, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (33) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In key advances for the field of superconductivity, a research group has created versions of a class of widely studied superconducting compounds that are each one continuous crystal, rather ...





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Scientists prove unconventional superconductivity in new iron arsenide compounds

Scientists prove unconventional superconductivity in new iron arsenide compounds

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory used inelastic neutron scattering to show that superconductivity in a new family of iron arsenide superconductors cannot ...


Iron-arsenic superconductors in class of their own

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 5

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have experimentally demonstrated that the superconductivity mechanism in the recently-discovered iron-arsenide superconductors is unique compared to all other ...


An iron-based superconductor under pressure

Putting the Pressure on Iron-Based Superconductors

Physics / Superconductivity

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Traditionally, magnetism and superconductivity don't mix. For more than 20 years, the only known superconductors that worked at so-called "high" temperatures (above 30 K, or about -406 degrees ...


Danish nanowires have great potential

Danish nanowires have great potential

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Danish nanophysicists have developed a new method for manufacturing the cornerstone of nanotechnology research - nanowires. The discovery has great potential for the development of nanoelectronics and highly ...


Common gene variant found to regulate iron levels

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team including researchers at UQ's Diamantina Institute and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research has identified a new variant of a gene that helps to regulate iron and haemoglobin ...


Graphene and gallium arsenide: Two perfect partners find each other

Graphene and gallium arsenide: Two perfect partners find each other

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

It is the marriage of two top candidates for the electronics of the future, both excentric and extremely interesting: Graphene, one of the partners, is an extremely thin fellow and besides, very young.


Iron regulates the TLR4 inflammatory signaling pathway

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Iron is a micronutrient essential to the survival of both humans and disease-causing microbes. Changes in iron levels therefore affect the severity of infectious diseases. For example, individuals with mutations in their ...


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Red, White Wine, Fish And Science

Chemistry / Other

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1

The long-standing rule of matching wine and food -- red wine with red meat and white wine with fish -- actually has a scientific explanation, according to two scientists working for the Mercian Corporation, ...


A scientific basis the 'golden rule' of pairing wines and foods

A scientific basis the 'golden rule' of pairing wines and foods

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Scientists in Japan are reporting the first scientific explanation for one of the most widely known rules of thumb for pairing wine with food: "Red wine with red meat, white wine with fish." The scientists ...


Acidic clouds nourish world's oceans

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists at the University of Leeds have proved that acid in the atmosphere breaks down large particles of iron found in dust into small and extremely soluble iron nanoparticles, which are more readily used by plankton.



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