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Using lasers to cool and manipulate molecules

Using lasers to cool and manipulate molecules

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- "For years, we have been using laser cooling to trap and manipulate atoms," David DeMille tells PhysOrg.com. "This has been very useful for both basic science and many applications. Recent ...


Super cool atom thermometer

Super cool atom thermometer

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

As physicists strive to cool atoms down to ever more frigid temperatures, they face the daunting task of developing new, reliable ways of measuring these extreme lows. Now a team of physicists has devised ...





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Report shows CIMT may improve arm use in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) is a potentially effective form of intervention for children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy, but more research is needed, according to a new systematic review published in the November ...


Loves Me, Loves Me Not: Researchers Discover New Method for Measuring Hydrophobicity at the Nanoscale

Loves Me, Loves Me Not: Researchers Discover New Method for Measuring Hydrophobicity at the Nanoscale

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a new, more precise method for measuring how much — or how little - nanoscale interfaces love water.


Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 31

(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 ...


Physics Model Determines Dynamics of Friends and Enemies

Physics Model Determines Dynamics of Friends and Enemies

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes friends can become enemies and enemies become friends, and it’s difficult to understand exactly how or why the changes took place. A new study shows that when the shifting of alliances ...


Metamaterials could reduce friction in nanomachines

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 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 ...


Bacteria offer insights into human decision making

Bacteria offer insights into human decision making

Physics / General Physics

created 10 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 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 ...



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