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Scientists Generate Black Hole Radiation in the Lab

Physics / Plasma Physics

Dec 07, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (30) | 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Due to their violent nature and long distance from Earth, black holes and their surroundings are very difficult to study. Currently, the main method to observe a black hole is to use an X-ray ...

A see-through surprise: Scientists make solid material transparent to terahertz waves

Physics / Condensed Matter

Dec 07, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (18) | 1

Very often in science, the unexpected discovery turns out to be the most significant. Rice University Professor Junichiro Kono and his team weren't looking for a breakthrough in the transmission of terahertz signals, but ...

Highlight: Exploiting strain fields

Physics / Condensed Matter

Dec 10, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic devices of the future may benefit from a fundamental discovery that allows researchers to customize the electronic properties of complex materials such as single-crystal thin-film structures.

Aussie galaxy survey to lead to 'new physics'

Space & Earth / Astronomy

Dec 08, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (23) | 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian astronomers have released the first set of data from the first project to look at the effects of "dark energy" halfway back in the Universe's lifetime.

City Tech physicist thinks small and big with CERN Large Hadron Collider research

Physics / General Physics

Dec 11, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

New York City College of Technology Physics Professor Giovanni Ossola thinks both small and big. He is currently developing a new tool that will lead to more precise computations involving the actions of particles (the smallest ...

Metamaterials could reduce friction in nanomachines

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Dec 07, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanoscale machines expected to have wide application in industry, energy, medicine and other fields may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to important theoretical discoveries concerning the manipulation ...

Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

Physics / General Physics

Dec 07, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (27) | 29

(PhysOrg.com) -- New high-energy particle research by a team working with data from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory further heightens the uncertainty about the exact nature of a key theoretical component ...

Entropy alone creates complex crystals from simple shapes, study shows

Chemistry / Materials Science

Dec 09, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (21) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study that elevates the role of entropy in creating order, research led by the University of Michigan shows that certain pyramid shapes can spontaneously organize into complex quasicrystals.

Bacteria offer insights into human decision making

Physics / General Physics

Dec 08, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (18) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying how bacteria under stress collectively weigh and initiate different survival strategies say they have gained new insights into how humans make strategic decisions that ...

Queen Mary scientists shed light on a mysterious particle

Physics / General Physics

2 hours ago | not rated yet | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Queen Mary, University of London have begun looking deep into the Earth to study some of nature's weirdest particles; neutrinos.

Reaching the summit of protein dynamics

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

Dec 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Understanding the incredibly speedy atomic mechanisms at work when a protein transitions from one shape to another has been an elusive scientific goal for years, but an essential one for elucidating the full ...

New biosensors reveal workings of anti-psychotic drugs in the living brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Dec 13, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0

Scientists have resolved a question about how a popular class of drugs used to treat schizophrenia works using biosensors that reveal previously hidden components of chemical communication in the brain.

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