News tagged with thermal behavior

Startling thermal energy behavior revealed by neutron scattering

(PhysOrg.com) -- A discovery by researchers working at the Spallation Neutron Source upends long held assumptions about the microscopic behavior of materials in an equilibrium condition. The findings could ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New NASA temperature maps provide 'whole new way of seeing the moon'

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's first-ever moon temperature-mapping effort has returned its first data.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1

Flatland physics probes mysteries of superfluidity

(Physorg.com) -- If physicists lived in Flatland—the fictional two-dimensional world invented by Edwin Abbott in his 1884 novel—some of their quantum physics experiments would turn out differently (not just ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 3




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Report on Texas fire urges firefighters to consider wind effects

(PhysOrg.com) -- Wind conditions at a fire scene can make a critical difference on the behavior of the blaze and the safety of firefighters, even indoors, according to a new report by the National Institute of Standards and ...

Technology / Other

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A quantum connection between light and motion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have demonstrated a system in which light is used to control the motion of an object that is large enough to be seen with the naked eye at the level where quantum mechanics governs ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (24) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Manipulating the texture of magnetism

Knowing how to control the combined magnetic properties of interacting electrons will provide the basis to develop an important tool for advancing spintronics: a technology that aims to harness these properties ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Optical nanoantennas enable efficient multipurpose particle manipulation

University of Illinois researchers have shown that by tuning the properties of laser light illuminating arrays of metal nanoantennas, these nano-scale structures allow for dexterous optical tweezing as well ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Engineer guest authors PNAS commentary on directing colloidal assembly

The University of Delaware's Eric M. Furst authored a commentary in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) advance online edition Dec. 19.

Physics / Soft Matter

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

IBM reveals five innovations that will change our lives in the next five years (Update)

Today IBM formally unveiled the sixth annual “IBM 5 in 5" (#ibm5in5) – a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (25) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

International collaboration reveals magnetization textures in NiPd nanostructures

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international collaboration led by the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology  has used scanning electron microscopy with polarization analysis (SEMPA) to acquire images ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

IBM researchers demonstrate future of computing with graphene, racetrack and carbon nanotube breakthroughs

Today at IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IBM scientists unveiled several exploratory research breakthroughs that could lead to major advancements in delivering dramatically smaller, faster and more powerful computer ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Pluto's hidden ocean

When NASA's New Horizons cruises by Pluto in 2015, the images it captures could help astronomers determine if an ocean is hiding under the frigid surface, opening the door to new possibilities for liquid water ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

When it comes to churning out electrons, metal glass beats plastics

By adding carbon nanotubes to a glass-like metal compound, researchers have devised a new breed of field emission electrodes. This technology, which produces a stream of electrons, may have promising applications in the consumer ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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