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Study finds particles, molecules prefer not to mix

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

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

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

(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.





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Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms

Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, ...


Moving Quarks Help Solve Proton Spin Puzzle

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 11, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- New theory work at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has shown that more than half of the spin of the proton is the result of the movement of its building blocks: ...


Rice awarded $5M for light-based crystal simulator

Rice researchers to build light-based crystal simulator

Physics / Superconductivity

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A Rice University-led team of physicists at seven U.S. universities has won $5 million from the Department of Defense to build a simulator capable of tackling high-temperature superconductivity, one of the ...


New electron microscopy images reveal the assembly of HIV

New electron microscopy images reveal the assembly of HIV

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the University Clinic Heidelberg, Germany, have produced a three-dimensional reconstruction of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), which shows ...


Exerting better control over matter waves

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (29) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- “The concept of matter waves is at the heart of quantum mechanics,” Oliver Morsch tells PhysOrg.com. “At the beginning of the last century, scientists discovered that solid particles could exhibit proper ...


Nano-sandwich Triggers Novel Electron Behavior

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A material just six atoms thick in which electrons appear to be guided by conflicting laws of physics depending on their direction of travel has been discovered by a team of physicists at the University of ...


Investigating new materials with ultracold atoms

Investigating new materials with ultracold atoms

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 1

The investigation of complex materials such as high-temperature superconductors is problematic because of the presence of disorder and many competing interactions in real crystalline materials. "This makes ...


Researcher Discovers Method to Fully Process Encrypted Data Without Knowing its Content

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- An IBM Researcher has solved a thorny mathematical problem that has confounded scientists since the invention of public-key encryption several decades ago. The breakthrough, called "privacy homomorphism," ...


Scientists Demonstrate Microscale System to Study Frustration in Buckled Monolayers of Microspheres

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of University of Pennsylvania physicists has demonstrated a simple system based on micron-sized spheres in water to study and control geometric frustration. Their research, published today in the ...


NIST research collaboration spies Galfenol's inner beauty mark

Scientists spy Galfenol's inner beauty mark

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The sonar on submarines may get far more sensitive ears in the near future thanks to a mysterious compound developed by the military. Developed over a decade ago, it took a collaboration of ...



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