Physics and Matter News Archives Page 2

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

Physicists saved from drowning in complexities of wetting theory (4/8/2008)

The relationship between a thin liquid film or drop of liquid and the shape of the surface that it wets is explained with a new simplified mathematical formula ...> Full Article

Newly discovered 'superinsulators' promise to transform materials research, electronics design (4/6/2008)

Discovery opens new directions of inquiry in condensed matter physics and breaks ground for a new generation of microelectronics ...> Full Article

2,500 researchers, 1 supermachine, 1 new snapshot of the universe (4/5/2008)

physicist a key figure among international team that designed world's biggest particle physics detector ...> Full Article

Graphene gazing gives glimpse of foundations of universe (4/5/2008)

Researchers have used graphene to measure an important and mysterious fundamental constant - and glimpse the foundations of the universe. ...> Full Article

More Solid than Solid: A Potential Hydrogen-Storage Compound (4/4/2008)

Hydrogen storage material compacts molecules more densely than frozen block. ...> Full Article

Innovative Atom Trap Catches Highly Magnetic Atoms (4/3/2008)

A research team has succeeded in cooling atoms of a rare-earth element, erbium, to within two millionths of a degree of absolute zero using a novel trapping and laser cooling technique. Their recent report* is a major step towards a capability to capture, cool and manipulate individual atoms of erbium, an element with unique optical properties that promises highly sensitive nanoscale force or magnetic sensors, as well as single-photon sources and amplifiers at telecommunications wavelengths. It also may have applications in quantum computing devices. ...> Full Article

Research brings terahertz closer to everyday use (4/2/2008)

Researchers have recorded the highest operating temperature for a terahertz quantum cascade laser ...> Full Article

3-D imaging - first insights into magnetic fields (4/1/2008)

3-D images are not only useful in medicine; the observation of internal structures is also invaluable in many other fields of scientific investigation. Recently, researchers from the Hahn-Meitner-Institute (HMI) in Berlin in cooperation with University of Applied Sciences in Berlin have succeeded, for the first time, in a direct, three-dimensional visualisation of magnetic fields inside solid, non-transparent materials. ...> Full Article

Quantum Channel Between Earth And Space? Firing Photons Makes Advance In Space Communication (3/31/2008)

For the first time, physicists have been able to identify individual returning photons after firing and reflecting them off of a space satellite in orbit almost 1,500 kilometres above the earth. The experiment has proven the possibility of constructing a quantum channel between Space and Earth. ...> Full Article