Matter News

Researchers demonstrate for the first time how light squeezes through small holes (5/9/2008)

How does light pass through a tiny hole? For the first time, researchers have succeeded in mapping this process properly ...> Full Article

Physicist confines plasma components in a trap within a trap (5/7/2008)

Professor has taken a step toward simulating a type of matter found in the crusts of neutron stars, in the cores of gas giant planets, and in exotic plasmas thought to be present in the earliest universe. ...> Full Article

Quantum Mechanical Con Game (5/6/2008)

For the first time, physicists have come up with a scheme that would allow a quantum mechanical expert to win every time in a con game with a victim who only knows about classical physics ...> Full Article

Researchers discover theoretical model to predict jamming (5/2/2008)

The model could provide new avenues in materials innovation and medicine ...> Full Article

Heat transfer between materials is focus of new research grant (5/1/2008)

Managing heat is a major challenge for engineers who work on devices from jet engines to personal electronics to nano-scale transistors. ...> Full Article

High-flying electrons may provide new test of quantum theory (4/30/2008)

Researchers believe they can achieve a significant increase in the accuracy of one of the fundamental constants of nature by boosting an electron to an orbit as far as possible from the atomic nucleus that binds it ...> Full Article

Physics Advance Leads to a Better Understanding of Optics at the Atomic Scale (4/29/2008)

Advance improves our understanding of how light interacts with matter, and could make possible the development of new integrated-circuit technologies that result in faster computers that use less energy. ...> Full Article

The Physics of Whipped Cream (4/28/2008)

Science experiment aboard space shuttle Columbia recovered and reviewed. ...> Full Article

Pinpoint microwave resolution could lead to wireless power transfer (4/27/2008)

Researchers have focused microwaves to specks 20 times smaller than their wavelength and five times smaller than other devices have achieved. ...> Full Article

Light research opens door for optical storage and computing (4/27/2008)

Photonics research hopes to use slow and fast light pulses to store and process information ...> Full Article

UK computing Grid warming up for world's largest experiment (4/26/2008)

UK scientists building a computing Grid for particle physics have launched the next phase of their project, in advance of the start of the world's largest experiment ...> Full Article

Scientists discover exotic quantum state of matter (4/25/2008)

'Quantum Hall-like effect' found in a bulk material without an applied magnetic field ...> Full Article

Mining for Dark Matter (4/24/2008)

Researchers are working on an experiment that will sit in an abandoned South Dakota goldmine, looking for evidence of dark matter. ...> Full Article

Second family of high-temperature superconductors discovered (4/23/2008)

Researchers in Japan and China have discovered a new family of high-temperature superconductors ...> Full Article

Getting Wired for Terahertz (4/21/2008)

A step toward circuits for superfast far-infrared computers ...> Full Article

From cartilage to fruit-fly wings, physicist studies 'squishiness' in everyday things (4/20/2008)

Figuring out the physics of how cartilage moves, is compressed, twisted and otherwise deformed to eventually be replaced by better, longer-lasting artificial cartilage is goal of projects ...> Full Article

Researchers discover chromium's hidden magnetic talents (4/19/2008)

Researchers have determined that the element chromium displays electrical properties of magnets in surprising ways ...> Full Article

What happens when you pop a quantum balloon? (4/18/2008)

Study finds striking similarities and differences between quantum and classical chaos ...> Full Article

Graphene used to create world's smallest transistor (4/18/2008)

Researchers have used the world's thinnest material to create the world's smallest transistor, one atom thick and ten atoms wide. ...> Full Article

Laser triggers electrical activity in thunderstorm for the first time (4/17/2008)

Device on mountaintop takes first step toward manmade lightning ...> Full Article

Micro Sensor and Micro Fridge Make Cool Pair (4/17/2008)

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have combined two tiny but powerful NIST inventions on a single microchip, a cryogenic sensor and a microrefrigerator. The combination offers the possibility of cheaper, simpler and faster precision analysis of materials such as semiconductors and stardust. ...> Full Article

Matter, Anti-matter and MICE (4/16/2008)

The quest to understand more about the mysterious neutrino particle which is thought to be responsible for this phenomenon has taken a major step forward. ...> Full Article

Gravity wave 'smoking gun' fizzles, according to physics researchers (4/15/2008)

But gravitational waves may be more sensitive probe of early universe physics than previously thought ...> Full Article

Ready to go: mobile terahertz devices (4/14/2008)

Terahertz waves, which until now have barely found their way out of the laboratory, could soon be in use as a versatile tool ...> Full Article

World's shortest single photon pulse created (4/13/2008)

The world's shortest light pulse containing just one photon has been produced ...> Full Article

New research institute for shock physics launched at Imperial College (4/12/2008)

A new £10 million research institute dedicated to studying the fundamental science behind shock waves, high velocity collisions and extremes of pressure and heat ...> Full Article

Attraction at the atomic level (4/11/2008)

Researchers find the ties that bind electrons in high-temperature superconductivity ...> Full Article

Most Powerful Laser in the World Fires Up (4/10/2008)

Laser reaches greater than one petawatt of laser power ...> Full Article

Researchers Take Step Toward Creating Quantum Computers (4/9/2008)

A research group recently demonstrated one of the basic building blocks for distributed quantum computing using entangled photons generated in optical fibers ...> Full Article