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New mechanism for superconductivity discovered in iron-based superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team at RIKEN, Japan’s flagship research organisation has experimentally determined the mechanism underlying the formation of electron pairs in iron-based high-temperature superconductors. ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Apr 22, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Birds of a feather: Study finds particles, molecules prefer not to mix

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the world of small things, shape, order and orientation are surprisingly important, according to findings from a new study by chemists at Washington University in St. Louis.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0




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Obstacles no barrier to higher speeds for worms, researchers find

Obstacles in an organism's path can help it to move faster, not slower, researchers from New York University's Applied Math Lab at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences have found through a series ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Speed limit on the quantum highway

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have measured the propagation velocity of quantum signals in a many-body system.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Under the electron microscope -- A 3-D image of an individual protein

(PhysOrg.com) -- When Gang Ren whirls the controls of his cryo-electron microscope, he compares it to fine-tuning the gearshift and brakes of a racing bicycle. But this machine at the U.S. Department of Energy ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers study why metals fail

(PhysOrg.com) -- The eventual failure of metals, such as the aluminum in ships and airplanes, can often be blamed on breaks, or voids, in the material's atomic lattice. They're at first invisible, only microns in size, but ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The great gas hydrate escape

For some time, researchers have explored flammable ice for low-carbon or alternative fuel or as a place to store carbon dioxide. Now, a computer analysis of the ice and gas compound, known as a gas hydrate, ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Team models ionic conductivity in doped ceria for use as a fuel cell electrolyte

(PhysOrg.com) -- Optimizing the conductivity of ceria based oxides, or doped ceria, is crucial to their use as electrolytes in future solid oxide fuel cells.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers measure and model inhomogeneous energy landscapes in graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- If graphene is to live up to its promise as a revolutionary component of future electronics, the interactions between graphene and the surrounding materials in a device must be understood and controlled. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Swimming upstream: Flux flow reverses for lattice bosons in a magnetic field

(PhysOrg.com) -- Matter in the subatomic realm is, well, a different matter. In the case of strongly correlated phases of matter, one of the most surprising findings has to do with a phenomenon known as the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 10 | with audio podcast feature

Mystery of car battery's current solved

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists have solved the 150 year-old mystery of what gives the lead-acid battery, found under the bonnet of most cars, its unique ability to deliver a surge of current.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (28) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

How long do electrons live in graphene?

Together with international colleagues, scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have added another important component towards understanding the material graphene; a material that is ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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