News tagged with shell states

Researchers Control the Spin of Semiconductor Quantum Dot Shell States

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have recently demonstrated the ability to control the spin population of the individual quantum shell states of self-assembled indium arsenide (InAs) quantum ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Miami battling invasion of giant African snails

No one knows how they got there. But an invasion of African giant snails has southern Florida in a panic over potential crop damage, disease and general yuckiness surrounding the slimy gastropods.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Russia 'drills into' Antarctic subglacial lake

A Russian team has succeeded in drilling through four kilometres (2.5 miles) of ice to the surface of a mythical subglacial Antarctic lake which could hold as yet unknown life forms, reports said Monday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 13

NASA's NuSTAR ships to Vandenberg for March 14 launch

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Tuesday, to be mated to its Pegasus launch vehicle. The observatory will detect X-rays ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

First atomic X-ray laser created

Scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Rice lab mimics Jupiter's Trojan asteroids inside a single atom

Rice University physicists have gone to extremes to prove that Isaac Newton's classical laws of motion can apply in the atomic world: They've built an accurate model of part of the solar system inside a single ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

California condor still threatened by human activities

A recently released scientific paper authored by San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research scientists shows the leading causes of death of the endangered California condor in the wild are human influenced, with lead ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mesoparapylocheles michaeljacksoni: Fossil hermit crab named after Michael Jackson

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Kent State University researcher was part of an international team of paleontologists that recently made a significant discovery in northern Spain. The group discovered a new family, genus ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers engineer a switch to tame aggressive cancers

When cancers become aggressive and spread they are the most deadly. Unfortunately, little is known about how to stop this development. A new imaging platform developed by Lawson Health Research Institute's Drs. Ann Chambers ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Origin of thermonuclear supernova discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have solved a longstanding mystery on the type of star, or so-called progenitor, which caused a supernova seen in a nearby galaxy. The ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New material for thermonuclear fusion reactors

Scientists at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Oxford University and the University of Michigan have joined efforts to develop new materials for thermonuclear fusion reactors. Their research focuses on characterization ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 38


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