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New technology may cool the laptop, prof says (w/ Video)
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Does your laptop sometimes get so hot that it can almost be used to fry eggs? New technology may help cool it and give information technology a unique twist, says Jairo Sinova, a Texas A&M University physics professor.
Highlight: Capturing quasiparticles
Oct 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A physics research team from the University of St Andrews and Cornell University in the USA has managed to 'photograph' the traces left by orbiting electrons in a special oxide material, and their observations ...
Breakthrough with light could help viral research
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a method using the force of light to gently trap, manipulate and study tiny, active objects as miniscule as viruses -- opening doors to expanded viral research.
Quantum-limited Measurement Method for Nanosensors
Oct 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Ludwig Maximilians University have succeeded in applying a novel optical method to nano-mechanical ...
Graphite mimics iron's magnetism
Oct 04, 2009 |
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Researchers of Eindhoven University of Technology and the Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands show for the first time why ordinary graphite is a permanent magnet at room temperature. The results ...
Stretching opens up possibilities for graphene
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers say they have found a simple way to improve the semiconducting properties of the world’s thinnest material - by giving it a good tug.
'Metamaterials' used to look at effects of black holes, other celestial objects
Sep 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Dentcho Genov, an assistant professor of physics and electrical engineering at Louisiana Tech University and a Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) Institute fellow, is featured ...
Researchers develop thin films showing promise for solar applications
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed thin films that exhibit carrier multiplication (CM). This development is of great interest for future solar cells.
Transparent aluminium is 'new state of matter'
Jul 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. 'Transparent aluminium' previously only existed in science ...
Research looks at how light and matter behave around black holes, other celestial objects
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Dr. Dentcho Genov, an assistant professor of physics and electrical engineering at Louisiana Tech University and a Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) Institute fellow, is featured in the most recent issue of Nature Ph ...
Testing relativity in the lab
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Even Albert Einstein might have been impressed. His theory of general relativity, which describes how the gravity of a massive object, such as a star, can curve space and time, has been successfully used to ...
Raindrops keep falling on your head -- but they burst first
Jul 20, 2009 |
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For generations, schoolchildren have been taught that raindrops start as micro-droplets that then gather together in clouds with their neighbours to become bigger droplets.
Scientists develop novel ion trap for sensing force and light
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Miniature devices for trapping ions (electrically charged atoms) are common components in atomic clocks and quantum computing research. Now, a novel ion trap geometry demonstrated at the National Institute ...
Scientists discover giant Rydberg atom molecules
Jun 24, 2009 |
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A group of University of Oklahoma researchers led by Dr. James P. Shaffer, Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, have discovered giant Rydberg molecules with a bond as large as a red blood cell. Determining ...
How growing cells move together
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Our cells are more than inert bags of proteins and genes whose complex signaling networks confound the world’s most powerful computers. They also have a physical side whose brawny feats may ...
