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Light transmission

Physicists Transmit Light through Opaque Materials

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 18, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (47) | comments 6

No matter how thick an opaque "scattering material" is, physicists have shown how to weave light through tiny open channels in the material, so that the light passes through on the other side.





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Researchers create 'synthetic magnetic fields' for neutral atoms

Researchers create 'synthetic magnetic fields' for neutral atoms

Physics / Quantum Physics

created 8 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Achieving an important new capability in ultracold atomic gases, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University ...


Researchers put a new spin on atomic musical chairs

Researchers put a new spin on atomic musical chairs

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created 9 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Naval Research Laboratory have developed a new way to introduce magnetic impurities in a semiconductor crystal by prodding it with ...


Will copper keep us safe from the superbugs?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Three papers scheduled for publication in the January issue of the Journal of Hospital Infection, published by Elsevier, suggest that copper might have a role in the fight against healthcare-associated infections.


Security ID cards with built-in holograms

Security ID cards with built-in holograms (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plastic cards with security features are ubiquitous these days, having a wide variety of uses such as credit cards, employee cards, licenses, and so on. Many have holographic images, but they ...


 Chang'E-1 has blazed a new trail in China's deep space exploration

Chang'E-1 has blazed a new trail in China's deep space exploration

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A huge amount of scientific data have been accumulated by the CE-1 lunar orbiter. Using laser altimeter data, Jinsong Ping and Qian Huang et al obtained improved 3D lunar topography, and based on this, they ...


Spinons -- confined like quarks

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 2

The concept of confinement is one of the central ideas in modern physics. The most famous example is that of quarks which bind together to form protons and neutrons. Now Prof. Bella Lake from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (Germany) ...


Using superconducting probes to get a picture of what it's like inside CNTs

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Carbon nanotubes are exciting for fundamental physics, and for potential technological applications," Nadya Mason tells PhysOrg.com. "However, we are generally limited in the way that we can study them. ...


NSLS-II Project Beamline Conceptual Designs

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The NSLS-II Experimental Facilities Division achieved an important milestone in September when the conceptual design reports for the initial six project beamlines were completed and submitted to NSLS-II management.


An exquisite container

Smart drug delivery system -- Gold nanocage covered with polymer (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

In campy old movies, Lucretia Borgia swans around emptying powder from her ring into wine glasses carelessly left unattended. The poison ring is usually a confection of gold filigree holding a cabochon or ...


Physicists discover novel electronic properties in two-dimensional carbon structure

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Rutgers researchers have discovered novel electronic properties in two-dimensional sheets of carbon atoms called graphene that could one day be the heart of speedy and powerful electronic devices.



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