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A collaboration of physicists from the United States announces the development of designer electrons, tunable elementary particles that could theoretically be used to develop new classes of materials and electronic devices.
The exotic variants of regular electrons were created individually. Scientists drew inspirat... |
16 March 2012
06:37 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new investigation, it would appear that the basic knowledge we thought we had on static electricity is wrong. The study found that the physical principles that underlie this phenomenon are more complex than originally thought. Static electricity is one of the most commonly used ways ... |
27 June 2011
03:43 GMT |
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A group of physicists from the Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech) recently managed a breakthrough in this field of research, when they were able to collect the first-ever 3D images of a lightning strike. This has never been done before. In addition to being able to snap images in the X-ray portion of the ... |
15 December 2010
10:28 GMT |
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An international team of researchers that included specialists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, in Dresden, Germany, was able to gather conclusive evidence that magnetic fields can bring about unconventional superconductivity in a materials. Physicists have been looking for evidence to in... |
13 December 2010
05:27 GMT |
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For more than 600 years, diamonds have been used for a variety of applications, to cut materials, and o polish other diamonds. Now, all these years later, German researchers finally demonstrate how is it that this can be achieved with the hardest material in the world. Investigators from the Freiburg-based Fraunhofer... |
29 November 2010
10:01 GMT |
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A group of German researchers from the University of Bonn say that they were able to develop a new state of matter, which contains a new type of photons, the elementary particles that make up light.The stuff was obtained when the team, led by researchers Jan Klärs, Julian Schmitt, Frank Vewinger and Martin Weitz... |
25 November 2010
10:21 GMT |
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Over the past few years, making more sense of superconductivity in complex copper oxides has been one of the most avidly researched areas of physics. Now, investigators provide more insight into this phenomenon, by discovering an entirely new type of magnetic waves at action in the material. The group that made the f... |
11 November 2010
03:58 GMT |
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A team of researchers that arguably had too much time on its hands announces that it managed to count the number of atoms in a kilogram of silicon. They did so by dividing the quantity into smaller volumes. In science, this number is known as the Avogadro's constant, and it refers to the atoms that can be found ... |
14 October 2010
06:29 GMT |
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A recent test run of the world's most powerful laser proved that the instrument works, and raised hopes that scientists at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) will achieve nuclear fusion within two years. The firing of the laser was the first-ever complete dry run of the machine, which saw the laser being ai... |
13 October 2010
04:17 GMT |
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For the first time ever, a group of scientists has demonstrated experimentally that it is possible to produce a white hole inside a simple kitchen sink. The idea has been hypothesized a long time ago.At this point, there are numerous difficult-to-tackle issues in physics, one of which is the problem of hydraulic jump... |
12 October 2010
08:51 GMT |
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In a festivity held on October 5 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, the recipients of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics were announced. Expert physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both from the University of Manchester, in England, were awarded the prestigious award for developing a low-... |
5 October 2010
10:09 GMT |
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A team of expert led by physicists from the University of Bristol (UB) Center for Quantum Photonics (CQP) announces the development of a new approach to conducting quantum computing.The international collaboration is convinced that the innovation it produced will be used in the near future to create compute... |
17 September 2010
06:59 GMT |
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A group of physicists from the United States and Russia managed a breakthrough in the field of magnetic field research, when they were capable of maintaining the same spin polarization in a magnetometer at room temperature for more than 60 seconds. This achievement represents an improvement two orders of magnitude la... |
15 September 2010
03:31 GMT |
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An international team of experts has for the first time managed to observe the motions of an atoms' outer electron in real time. The accomplishment was made possible by using ultrashort pulses of laser light at the attosecond (one quintillionth of a second) scale. The work was conducted by scientists at the Max ... |
5 August 2010
04:56 GMT |
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Scientists from the Stanford University say that they have discovered a new way to look for the origin of superconductivity. This is a state that certain materials can take, in which they conduct electricity flawlessly, without allowing for losses to occur. The characteristic is very sought-for in scientific circles,... |
18 May 2010
14:01 GMT |
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The factors underlining droplet dynamics have been an object of intense scrutiny for physicists. One of the most important goals in this research was figuring out how ultrasound waves traveling over a surface can influence liquid droplets, eventually forcing them to move. Experts hypothesized that a wide array of phy... |
1 April 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Physicists at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) recently managed an exceptional achievement, when they instilled a mixed quantum state on an object that is visible to the unaided eye. This is a momentous achievement, given that until now only nanoscale objects could be placed into such states, and ... |
18 March 2010
06:17 GMT |
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Using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) machine at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), a team of researchers managed to create an extreme state of matter. Their test results produced a form of matter that was about four trillions of degrees Celsius, a temperature ab... |
3 March 2010
06:32 GMT |
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For the better part of the last 20 years, University of Colorado in Boulder (UCB) physics professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn have been inching towards creating a tabletop X-ray laser at a snail's pace. As the old adagio goes, slowly but surely, they managed to set a very solid foundation for their wor... |
22 February 2010
07:04 GMT |
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Physicists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have recently managed to demonstrate that the magnetic properties a material has are a clear indicator of its superconducting properties. They add that the same mechanisms allowing for superconductivity to appear in copper-bas... |
3 February 2010
06:25 GMT |
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Scientists at the Rice University have recently determined that certain types of superconductors are able to carry electrons indefinitely – as in to store electrical energy – only if those electrons have certain magnetic properties. The new discovery, which was made by US and Chinese experts, may help phy... |
11 January 2010
06:30 GMT |
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For the first time ever, experts have discovered a form of nanoscale symmetry underlying solid state matter. The finding is of tremendous proportions, especially when considering the fact that this symmetry shows all the attributes and traits of the “golden ratio,” the famous concept from paintings and ar... |
8 January 2010
18:01 GMT |
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When the W and Z bosons were proven to be the mediators of the weak nuclear force, the Standard Model of particle physics received one of the most definitive pieces of evidence in its favor. At the time, all the jigsaws to the puzzle appeared to be falling into place, and physicists were more than happy with the meas... |
21 December 2009
09:41 GMT |
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For the last decade or so, astrophysicists have been trying to find signs of the elusive dark matter, the stuff believed to make up about 90 percent of the mass of the Universe. Its existence can only be inferred through the gravitational effects it has on galaxies and other celestial bodies around it, but physicists... |
18 December 2009
04:30 GMT |
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have recently observed for the first time the hypothesized confinement of spinons inside condensed matter. The structures are nothing more than particle-like magnetic excitations, which, apparently, can be confined in very muc... |
30 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Atomic physicists were recently puzzled to discover a type of gas that could have the ability to start a new type of physics all by itself. The chemical exhibits some very peculiar properties, when its initial conditions are changed. For instance, when its temperature is dropped to the ultra-cold range, it begins to ... |
19 September 2009
02:52 GMT |
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US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) experts have recently taken a crucial step in advancing the fields of magnetoresistance and high-temperature superconductivity research, when they have finally answered one of the elusive questions in physics today. The team has... |
18 September 2009
05:01 GMT |
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The final form of predicted ice has been successfully obtained in the laboratory. After years of research, scientists at the University of Oxford, in England, managed to create ice XV, a never-before-reached form of ice, with a special form of molecular layout. Thus far, 16 new types of the stuff have been discovered... |
14 September 2009
06:42 GMT |
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Physicists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), in Garching, and chemists from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU), in Munich, Germany, have recently managed to devise a new way of controlling single electrons inside complex molecules. Among swarms of other electrons, the team's method is ... |
2 September 2009
04:34 GMT |
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Planck's law is one of the most basic in physics, and is widely used to explain what governs the heat transfer between two bodies. The fact that the law breaks down when the objects are very close to each other has been theorized for many years, but no one has been able to demonstrate scientifically that this is... |
31 July 2009
08:23 GMT |
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