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Physicists offer new theory for iron compounds

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

An international team of physicists from the United States and China this week offered a new theory to both explain and predict the complex quantum behavior of a new class of high-temperature superconductors.





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Researchers Use Sun Cycle to Predict Rainfall Fluctuations

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The sun’s magnetic field may have a significant impact on weather and climatic parameters in Australia and other countries in the northern and southern hemispheres.


Reversals of Earth's Magnetic Field Explained by Small Core Fluctuations

Reversals of Earth's Magnetic Field Explained by Small Core Fluctuations

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (42) | comments 25 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Based on studies of old volcanic basalt, scientists know that the Earth’s magnetic field reverses at irregular intervals, ranging from tens of thousands to millions of years. Volcanic basalt ...


Magnetic Sensor That Brooks No Interference

Magnetic Sensor That Brooks No Interference

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 03, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Sensors accurately register the slightest temperature fluctuations, the tiniest changes to a magnetic field, or barely perceptible air currents. In some cases, however, there are limits to their accuracy – ...


Dynamic frustration may lead to better understanding of glass in nature

Argonne scientists discover new class of glassy material

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 28, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (34) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are dealing with an entirely new type of frustration, but it's not stressing them out.


Scientists discover surprise in Earth's upper atmosphere

Scientists discover surprise in Earth's upper atmosphere

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA atmospheric scientists have discovered a previously unknown basic mode of energy transfer from the solar wind to the Earth's magnetosphere. The research, federally funded by the National ...


Magnetic Measurements Question Assumptions About High-Tc Superconductors

Magnetic Measurements Question Assumptions About High-Tc Superconductors

Physics / Superconductivity

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Conquering one of the biggest challenges in the study of high-temperature (high-Tc) superconductors, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have grown ...


Novel connector uses magnets for leak-free microfluidic devices

Novel connector uses magnets for leak-free microfluidic devices

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Like other users of microfluidic systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology researcher Javier Atencia was faced with an annoying engineering problem: how to simply, reliably and most of all, tightly, ...


Lasers can lengthen quantum bit memory by 1,000 times

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Physicists have found a way to drastically prolong the shelf life of quantum bits, the 0s and 1s of quantum computers.


Quantum Effects Make the Difference

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 01, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (40) | comments 0

The atomic constituents of matter are never still, even at absolute zero. This consequence of quantum mechanics can result in continuous transition between different material states. Physicists at the Max Planck Institute ...


Scientists reach milestone in study of emergent magnetism

Scientists reach milestone in study of emergent magnetism

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago have reached a milestone in the study of emergent magnetism.



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