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Rice ties in race for atomic-scale breakthrough

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Everybody loves a race to the wire, even when the result is a tie. The great irony is the ultraprecise clocks that could result from this competition could probably break any tie.


First Bose-Einstein condensation of strontium

First Bose-Einstein condensation of strontium

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 5

In an international first, scientists from the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI, Austria) produced a Bose-Einstein condensate of the alkaline-earth element strontium, thus narrowly ...


Scientists Show Strontium's Swimming Skills

Scientists Show Strontium's Swimming Skills

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, a trio from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Louisiana Tech University showed that strontium ions congregate on water's surface. Their computer simulation and careful calculations ...


LED closes the yellow gap: Full conversion of blue into amber light by new nitride phosphor

LED closes the yellow gap: Full conversion of blue into amber light by new nitride phosphor

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Monochromatic light-emitting diodes cover a large part of the visible spectrum with high effi-ciency. For blue light, nitride diodes achieve external quantum efficiencies in excess of 65%, ...


Vise Squad: Putting the Squeeze on a Crystal Leads to Novel Electronics

Vise Squad: Putting the Squeeze on a Crystal Leads to Novel Electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A clever materials science technique that uses a silicon crystal as a sort of nanoscale vise to squeeze another crystal into a more useful shape may launch a new class of electronic devices ...


Putting the squeeze on an old material could lead to 'instant on' electronic memory

Putting the squeeze on an old material could lead to 'instant on' electronic memory

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The technology of storing electronic information - from old cassette tapes to shiny laptop computers - has been a major force in the electronics industry for decades.


Baby teeth re-studied for effects of radiation fallout

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Questionnaires will soon be sent to thousands of men who donated their baby teeth half a century ago to scientists seeking to learn whether radioactive fallout in milk the donors drank as children affected their health later ...