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Physics News
One of the many sites regularly presenting important news in physics, is www.physicsweb.org. It belongs to the Institute of Physics . What follows, are Persian adaptations of these news, from the beginning of 2000 till the end of 2007. From 2007/07/01, summaries stressing on main points are given, instead of full translations which were given before that date. These texts are in the pdf format. To view them, Adobe (Acrobat) reader 5 or later is needed. Adobe reader can be obtained freely from Adobe reader download .
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Physics news, 2007 back to mamwad
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07/12/22 23 The best of 2007 07/12/21 22 US physics suffers budget setbacks 07/12/20 21 Superexchange spotted in optical lattice 07/12/20 20 Cosmology hub launches in the UK 07/12/19 19 Ampere could be defined one electron at a time 07/12/17 18 Conduction seen in DNA backbone 07/12/17 17 Photonic crystal bends light round corners 07/12/14 16 Compact synchrotron is unveiled 07/12/14 15 Noise might cause huge ocean waves 07/12/14 14 CERN reveals next director general 07/12/13 13 Light is stored as sound 07/12/13 12 Reactor shutdown delays medical procedures 07/12/13 11 Tony Bland: 1958-2007 07/12/11 10 UK pulls out of plans for ILC 07/12/11 09 Largest ever telescope gets $200m to proceed 07/12/11 08 Microscope reveals spins on the move 07/12/10 07 US centre tackles the big questions 07/12/07 06 Tiny sphere detects bacteria 07/12/06 05 Mission illuminates solar mysteries 07/12/06 04 'Dark stars' may have populated early universe 07/12/05 03 Tuneable gap semiconductor is a first 07/12/04 02 Venus flytrap inspires adaptive optics 07/12/03 01 Wet sand flows better than dry
07/11/30 34 New boss selected for ESRF 07/11/30 33 Neutrinos could probe Earth's structure 07/11/29 32 UK physicist takes key fusion post 07/11/29 31 Supersensitive Coulomb test proposed 07/11/28 30 Probe likens young Venus to Earth 07/11/28 29 Proto-galaxies tip cold dark matter 07/11/27 28 Tiny fridge thinks it's a motor 07/11/26 27 TASER is easy on the heart 07/11/23 26 Software tracks 'monster waves' 07/11/23 25 High-Tc superconductors plug 'terahertz gap' 07/11/22 24 Berry's phase seen in solid-state qubit 07/11/22 23 Uranium gives opal its shine 07/11/21 22 Results question merit of axion experiments 07/11/20 21 Protein calms the waters 07/11/16 20 Analysis confronts model of universe's formation 07/11/16 19 UK plans to withdraw from Gemini 07/11/16 18 'Nanosoldering' makes a clean contact 07/11/15 17 Physicists spot unusual charged meson 07/11/15 16 Nanotube fibres toughen up 07/11/14 15 Negative refraction 'could trap rainbows' 07/11/14 14 New calculations target brightest-ever supernova 07/11/14 13 Relativity passes new test of time 07/11/13 12 Sand could shed light on quark-gluon plasma 07/11/09 11 'Wormholes' could be made from exotic materials 07/11/08 10 Cosmic-ray mystery solved at last 07/11/08 09 Two is a crowd for quantum particles 07/11/08 08 FAIR gets the go-ahead 07/11/08 07 Universe could have 'a fifth less mass' than current estimates 07/11/07 06 Physicists learn to forecast harmful ozone events 07/11/06 05 Tiny rods steer themselves 07/11/06 04 Cosmic collision explained without dark matter 07/11/03 03 Single spins controlled by an electric field 07/11/01 02 Heavy atoms reduce nanoscale friction 07/11/01 01 New magnetic sensor could probe the brain
07/10/31 28 Scanning tunnelling microscope runs faster 07/10/31 27 Negative-index material modulates light 07/10/31 26 Bullets bounce off nanotubes 07/10/30 25 Did the early universe have 'texture'? 07/10/26 24 Nanoantenna focuses laser light 07/10/25 23 New supersolid signature sighted 07/10/25 22 China launches mission to the Moon 07/10/25 21 New isotopes push out the drip-line 07/10/24 20 Electrons timed with attosecond accuracy 07/10/23 19 Unravelling the mysteries of coiling ropes 07/10/22 18 Semiconductor bends light 'wrong' way 07/10/19 17 Light snakes across tiny gaps 07/10/18 16 'Spookytechnology' anyone? 07/10/17 15 Capacitance sheds light on complex flows 07/10/16 14 Work begins on Chinese-US neutrino experiment 07/10/14 13 Friends, not policies, win elections 07/10/12 12 Laser reveals new type of magnetic ordering 07/10/10 11 Stern-Gerlach effect goes chiral 07/10/09 10 CERN boss quashes LHC delay rumours 07/10/09 09 Nobel prize recognizes GMR pioneers 07/10/07 08 Particle-physics detector warms to forest fires 07/10/05 07 Wrinkle researchers bag physics Ig Nobel 07/10/05 06 Artifical-atom laser debuts 07/10/04 05 World celebrates half a century in space 07/10/03 04 Josephson effect seen in atomic gas 07/10/03 03 Carbon-doped magnetic semiconductor is a first 07/10/03 02 Anton Zeilinger scoops first Issac Newton medal 07/10/02 01 ILC names research director
07/09/28 22 A faster way to better quantum computers 07/09/27 21 Microchip 'bus' links up quantum bits 07/09/27 20 NASA's Dawn rises with the Sun 07/09/27 19 Wolfgang Panofsky: 1919-2007 07/09/26 18 Quantum spin Hall effect glimpsed in HgTe 07/09/24 17 Gas-giant chaos will remain a mystery for now 07/09/20 16 Physicists discover new layer in Earth's mantle 07/09/20 15 Single-photon microwave source fits on a chip 07/09/19 14 Sticky walls slow mixing 07/09/17 13 Electron microscope breaks half-Angstrom barrier 07/09/14 12 Experiment finds graphene's missing pi 07/09/14 11 Selene blasts off for the moon 07/09/13 10 Stringy 'filaments' could have produced first stars 07/09/12 09 Matter-antimatter molecule makes its debut 07/09/12 08 Earth could survive a red-giant Sun 07/09/11 07 Thundercloud 'accelerator' fires gamma-ray beam 07/09/11 06 Lensless X-ray microscope fits in the lab 07/09/07 05 Ideal materials make for perfect invisibility 07/09/07 04 Sound causes colossal drop in resistance 07/09/06 03 Single-atom entanglement goes further 07/09/05 02 Dinosaur extinction linked to colliding asteroids 07/09/04 01 Single-photon transistor plans unveiled
07/08/31 26 Superlens avoids absorption 07/08/31 25 Chinese law to promote honest research 07/08/30 24 IBM targets single-atom data storage 07/08/30 23 Warm ice could improve medical implants 07/08/29 22 Physicist models Spiderman suit 07/08/27 21 Polaron melting heralds colossal resistance 07/08/24 20 Modified gravity fails at long distances 07/08/23 19 Team claims first silicon spinFET 07/08/23 18 Ralph Alpher: 1921 - 2007 07/08/22 17 Light collapses step-by-step 07/08/21 16 Ionic winds could chill computers 07/08/20 15 Physicists hit the rippled road 07/08/17 14 'Cosmic train wreck' stumps dark-matter physicists 07/08/15 13 Helices swirl in space-dust simulations 07/08/15 12 Opaque lens focuses light 07/08/14 11 Nanotubes guide phonons with ease 07/08/14 10 Interferometry images living cells in 3D 07/08/10 09 Physicists minimize 'sticky friction' in tiny machines 07/08/09 08 X-ray holography breaks the femtosecond barrier 07/08/08 07 Dirac medal honours charm-quark physicists 07/08/06 06 Phoenix blasts off to Mars 07/08/04 05 Laser flips magnetic bit without any help 07/08/03 04 Atoms store 2D images for record time 07/08/02 03 Wrinkles winkle out film thickness 07/08/02 02 Humans are changing the climate, says new analysis 07/08/01 01 Labyrinths appear in bead mixtures
07/07/31 25 'Seesaw' explains light dark-energy particles 07/07/30 24 Perfect lens could reverse Casimir force 07/07/27 23 Microscope unravels the intricacies of protein folding 07/07/25 22 Atoms swap spins 07/07/25 21 Graphene oxide weaved into 'paper' 07/07/24 20 Artificial swimmers have no moving parts 07/07/22 19 Tiny magnets help drugs reach the spot 07/07/20 18 Supersolid saga continues 07/07/19 17 Partnership to boost fuel-cell research 07/07/19 16 Liquid jets bounce along 07/07/18 15 Nanostructures help mosquitoes walk on water 07/07/17 14 Dark-energy teams win cosmology prize 07/07/13 13 First 'heat transistor' unveiled 07/07/13 12 Steel balls make a splash in sand 07/07/12 11 Astronomers discover the power behind supernovae 07/07/11 10 Water found on distant planet 07/07/11 09 US chooses site for underground lab 07/07/10 08 Tiny organisms move microstructures 07/07/06 07 New limit placed on photon charge 07/07/05 06 Copper rods 'swarm' like fish 07/07/05 05 Magic cluster rules for hydrogen storage 07/07/04 04 Scuffed spheres rise to the top 07/07/02 03 Axions ruled out by PVLAS 07/07/02 02 Icy stars reveal the secret of their patterns 07/07/01 01 Quantum gravity shrouds time before the Big Bang
07/06/29 20 Astrophysicists draw up wish list 07/06/29 19 Graphene p-n junction is unveiled 07/06/28 18 Two relativity tests are better than one 07/06/27 17 Nanowires to probe biological samples 07/06/26 16 Big stars have weather too 07/06/22 15 LHC will switch on in May 2008, says CERN 07/06/22 14 Telescope limitation could reveal exoplanets 07/06/22 13 Laser technique could help redefine the kelvin 07/06/21 12 Single atom entangles two photons 07/06/21 11 Fundamental constant is pretty much constant 07/06/19 10 Single crystals go supersolid 07/06/18 09 The hunt for unparticles is on 07/06/15 08 Director quits Canadian theory institute 07/06/14 07 Tiny spheres could control light 07/06/12 06 NMR gets seriously small 07/06/07 05 Wireless power a reality 07/06/06 04 Casimir force learns to swim 07/06/06 03 LHC to skip low-energy test runs 07/06/05 02 European X-ray laser gets the go ahead 07/06/01 01 Big particles are secret to crack-free paint
07/05/31 23 Physicists SCORE for third world 07/05/30 22 Supersolids: the plot thickens 07/05/30 21 Quantum well fires single electrons on demand 07/05/25 20 Quasar eclipses could clarify axion mystery 07/05/24 19 Soft-matter pioneer dies 07/05/22 18 Negative refraction gets natural 07/05/17 17 Physicists confirm existence of polariton condensate 07/05/17 16 Electrons hold their spin in silicon 07/05/16 15 Ghostly ring provides strong evidence for dark matter 07/05/15 14 Martian sands shift slowly but surely 07/05/15 13 Negative resistance found in 2D electron gas 07/05/14 12 Black hole shrinks braneworld dimensions 07/05/10 11 Fermions pair up without superfluidity 07/05/10 10 Laser pioneer dies 07/05/09 09 Hunt for fifth force focuses on Bullet Cluster 07/05/08 08 Chilling out with polaritons 07/05/07 07 Speckles expose magnet's noisy secrets 07/05/04 06 Molten core solves mystery of Mercury's magnetic field 07/05/03 05 Diamond maker focuses on particle detectors 07/05/02 04 Casimir force could drive tiny ratchets 07/05/01 03 Supersolids reliant on disorder, say physicists 07/05/01 02 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: 1912-2007 07/05/01 01 Entanglement dies a sudden death
07/04/27 20 Optical lattices could give insight into QCD 07/04/26 19 MRI resolution reaches 90 nm 07/04/25 18 New lower limit set for Newton's law 07/04/24 17 Twin spacecraft take first 3D images of the Sun 07/04/24 16 Fibonacci spirals in nature could be stress-related 07/04/20 15 Perturbative QCD fails for Compton scattering 07/04/20 14 Quantum physics says goodbye to reality 07/04/19 13 Microscope could scan optical lattices 07/04/17 12 Black-hole eclipse sizes up X-ray source 07/04/16 11 Gravity Probe B backs general relativity 07/04/13 10 Photosynthesis takes a leaf out of the quantum book 07/04/13 09 Evidence mounts for Bose glass 07/04/12 08 MiniBooNE rules out new kind of neutrino 07/04/11 07 Mild forecast for next solar cycle 07/04/09 06 Spins turn light off 07/04/06 05 Buffer boosts optical integration 07/04/05 04 Relativity trick slashes computing times 07/04/04 03 Electron tunnelling seen in real time 07/04/03 02 Angling for the best knot 07/04/02 01 Physicists take a crack at rocks
07/03/30 23 Large Hadron Collider faces delay 07/03/29 22 Nanotubes chill chips 07/03/29 21 Quasicrystals are selective with terahertz light 07/03/28 20 Quantum lottery is your best bet 07/03/27 19 Polariton laser reaches room temperature 07/03/23 18 Probe seeks changes in fine-structure constant 07/03/22 17 Magnifying superlenses show more detail than ever before 07/03/22 16 Spins take their time to relax 07/03/22 15 Physicists control light at the nanoscale 07/03/20 14 Hospital scanners could control cell-sized medical devices 07/03/16 13 Double-negative metamaterial edges towards the visible 07/03/16 12 Experiment sets the ultimate test for Newton's laws 07/03/15 11 Nanowires could boost memory density 07/03/15 10 Geophysicists offer explanation for Andes formation 07/03/14 09 Physicists watch the 'birth, life and death of a photon' 07/03/12 08 'Thermal runaway' weakens even the best crystals 07/03/09 07 Molten sodium mimics Earth's magnetic-field flipping 07/03/08 06 Gamma-ray observatory takes share of Descartes prize 07/03/07 05 Sunlight puts asteroids in a spin 07/03/06 04 Fermilab data hint at Higgs boson 07/03/02 03 Model puts new spin on hurricane prediction 07/03/02 02 When graphene meets negative refraction 07/03/01 01 Nanorods make 'ideal' anti-reflection coatings
07/02/28 25 Microscope 'fingerprints' atoms 07/02/27 24 Quantized magnetoresistance observed for the first time 07/02/27 23 European Research Council launched today 07/02/27 22 Limits set on size of dark matter clumps 07/02/23 21 'Chemical origami' shrinks 2D discs into 3D objects 07/02/22 20 Islamic 'quasicrystals' predate Penrose tiles 07/02/21 19 Magnetic fields put the heat on neutron stars 07/02/21 18 Magnet misbehaves near absolute zero 07/02/20 17 Bacterium battles against the current 07/02/15 16 Photons denied a glimpse of their observer 07/02/15 15 Firm claims first 'commercial' quantum computer 07/02/14 14 Ocean waves keep Earth humming 07/02/14 13 Plasma wakefield 'turbocharges' particle accelerator 07/02/14 12 Extra dimensions could leave trace in Big Bang's aftermath 07/02/09 11 New particle resolves erratic sightings of axions 07/02/08 10 Multibillion-dollar collider plans unveiled 07/02/08 09 Bubbles compute in logical devices 07/02/08 08 A moon that puts a shine on its neighbours 07/02/07 07 Storing light here - and retrieving it there 07/02/06 06 Diamond light source ready for business 07/02/05 05 Molecules self-assemble into stripes 07/02/02 04 Tiny mass detectors come out of the cold 07/02/02 03 Mankind to blame for global warming says IPCC 07/02/02 02 Strongly interacting Fermi condensates are put on trial 07/02/01 01 Two-photon emission seen in semiconductor
07/01/31 27 Ultrafast probe uses femtosecond electron pulses 07/01/31 26 Maxwell's demon tamed 07/01/30 25 Computer chips cut energy consumption 07/01/26 24 Lensless x-ray microscope focuses on biological samples 07/01/25 23 Graphene resonator is one atom thick 07/01/25 22 'Crowd turbulence' has deadly consequences 07/01/24 21 Another new twist on the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect 07/01/24 20 Refrigerator cools one electron at a time 07/01/23 19 Caesium slows down optical image 07/01/21 18 Synchrotron accelerates neutral molecules 07/01/19 17 Nanopolymers make their debut 07/01/18 16 Tropical beetle has the brightest whites 07/01/18 15 Molecular carrier is on the straight and narrow 07/01/18 14 Neutrino detector is compact yet sensitive 07/01/18 13 COROT sees first light 07/01/17 12 Pendulum swings away from dark energy 07/01/16 11 Photonic Schrödinger cat breaks record 07/01/16 10 GEANT4 helps hadrons destroy tumours 07/01/16 09 Giant-magnetoresistance pioneers win Wolf prize 07/01/12 08 Sound breaks the light barrier 07/01/11 07 Climate-change breaks records in Prague, not Philadelphia 07/01/10 06 Light squeezes through nano coax 07/01/10 05 NMR finds holes in nuclear waste storage 07/01/09 04 May the best man win 07/01/08 03 Dark-matter map points to galaxy formation 07/01/05 02 Lakes of methane spotted on Titan 07/01/05 01 Physicists make religion crystal clear
Physics news, 2006 back to mamwad
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06/12/23 15 The best of 2006 06/12/22 14 The quantum nose 06/12/21 13 Stars meet a darker death 06/12/20 12 Water pores reveal age of paper 06/12/19 11 Tiny dip could point to cosmic-ray origins 06/12/18 10 Cosmic structure explained without dark matter 06/12/14 09 Sea-level rise could be greater than IPCC predictions, warns physicist 06/12/13 08 Creating monoenergetic electron beams on a tabletop 06/12/11 07 Magnets take the spin out of blood separation 06/12/08 06 Physicists peer into ultrashort laser pulses 06/12/08 05 Ultrafast electron microscope makes movies 06/12/06 04 Water flows on Mars 06/12/06 03 Optical clocks strike again 06/12/01 02 Binary star pulsates with high-energy gamma rays 06/12/01 01 A sticky problem
06/11/30 23 Fish cells swim circles around physics lab 06/11/29 22 Metamaterial bridges the terahertz gap 06/11/28 21 Thinning thermosphere gives satellites a boost 06/11/23 20 To knot or not to knot 06/11/23 19 Magnetic vortex flipping made easy 06/11/22 18 Silicon becomes a superconductor 06/11/22 17 Hydrogen storage goes metal-free 06/11/21 16 ITER fusion reactor gets final approval 06/11/17 15 Dark energy dates back nine billion years 06/11/16 14 X-ray laser focuses on tiny objects 06/11/15 13 Graphene makes its mark on spin 06/11/14 12 Climbing plants get wrapped up 06/11/14 11 Gadget recharging goes wireless 06/11/13 10 Plants halt shifting sands 06/11/10 09 Spin measured without destruction 06/11/10 08 Moon's surface is alive and gassing 06/11/08 07 Sound science behind glowing sugar 06/11/08 06 Stuff of life descended from hazy skies 06/11/07 05 Chiral liquid splits light by polarization 06/11/03 04 Antiprotons excel at cancer treatment 06/11/02 03 Supersolid's existence remains in dispute 06/11/02 02 A Casimir force for good in MEMS design 06/11/01 01 Hubble to get new lease of life
06/10/31 18 Mobile-phone network reveals the ties that bind 06/10/29 17 New particles turn up in the US 06/10/27 16 On the case of the 'missing' helium 06/10/26 15 3D solar satellites blast off 06/10/24 14 Underwater sound breaks the surface 06/10/20 13 Microparticles feel the pinch 06/10/19 12 Invisibility cloak unveiled in the US 06/10/19 11 Researchers discover element 118 06/10/18 10 Bubbles never forget 06/10/18 09 Splashing out against tumours 06/10/13 08 Laser controls chemical reaction rates 06/10/12 07 'Smust' soaks up ethane on Titan 06/10/05 06 Now you see it, now you don't 06/10/04 05 Virus boosts nanoparticle memory 06/10/03 04 UK physics department faces closure 06/10/03 03 Physicist proves it's location, location, location 06/10/03 02 Quantum encryption sets long-distance record 06/10/03 01 Nobel Prize shared for cosmic microwave background studies
06/09/28 19 Doughnuts cause stars to gain weight 06/09/28 18 BECs confound at higher temperatures 06/09/25 17 Japan launches satellite to study the Sun 06/09/22 16 Stresses determine the shape of life 06/09/22 15 Magnet falls freely in superconducting tube 06/09/21 14 Impossible supernova confounds astronomers 06/09/21 13 Newton, Einstein and a monstrous calf 06/09/19 12 Pulsars prove Einstein right (nearly) 06/09/15 11 Quantum back-action has a cooling effect 06/09/15 10 Slow death for a hot topic 06/09/14 09 Superlens microscope gets up close 06/09/13 08 Bubbles collapse without weight 06/09/11 07 Spin Hall effect detected at room temperature 06/09/08 06 Earth-like planets form in the wake of giants 06/09/08 05 Superconducting qubits get entangled 06/09/07 04 Grand deuterium challenge unveiled 06/09/06 03 Atom optics moves into space 06/09/05 02 NMR goes optical 06/09/01 01 Photonic crystals go magnetic
06/08/31 21 Nanotube resonators break gigahertz barrier 06/08/30 20 Hidden hydrogen could force galaxy rethink 06/08/30 19 Neutrino Nobel laureate dies 06/08/25 18 Pluto relegated to dwarf status 06/08/25 17 Gravity lens reveals dark matter 06/08/24 16 Satellite protection plan could backfire 06/08/24 15 Top hydrogen-storing polymer revealed 06/08/22 14 See-through silver 06/08/17 13 World's most creative physicist revealed 06/08/16 12 Plasmas move into dentistry 06/08/15 11 COBE team wins cosmology prize 06/08/15 10 Galaxy survey fails to add up 06/08/11 09 Atomic clocks feel the heat 06/08/10 08 Astrophysicist and space pioneer dies 06/08/09 07 Where did all the lithium go? 06/08/08 06 Dirac medal for atomic physicist 06/08/07 05 It's raining again 06/08/03 04 Superconductor reveals its true colours 06/08/03 03 Moon's bulge linked to early orbit 06/08/02 02 World's 'bluest' sky revealed 06/08/01 01 Refining the fine-structure constant
06/07/31 14 A cool solution to waste disposal 06/07/28 13 Rydberg atom mirror makes its debut 06/07/27 12 A sensitive approach to frescoes 06/07/26 11 Superconducting wire breaks record 06/07/25 10 Laser could create dark-matter particles 06/07/21 09 Organic transistors act as sensors 06/07/20 08 New look for graphene 06/07/19 07 Physicists solve pebble mystery 06/07/14 06 Towards frictionless nanomachines 06/07/12 05 Singing to the tune of sand 06/07/11 04 Shedding light on biomaterials 06/07/07 03 Are you reading the news? 06/07/07 02 Extinction gets synchronized 06/07/05 01 Giant 'starshade' could reveal new exoplanets
06/06/30 16 From the present to the past 06/06/29 15 Holey germanium 06/06/28 14 Sizing up nanotubes 06/06/27 13 LEDs target tumours 06/06/23 12 LHC due for 2007 start 06/06/23 11 New names for Pluto's moons 06/06/22 10 Chandra solves black hole mystery 06/06/20 09 Single-electron counter breaks new record 06/06/15 08 Repulsion binds atoms 06/06/14 07 Dry ice forms ultrahard glass 06/06/13 06 New look for nanocomposites 06/06/09 05 Theorists devise world's smallest fridge 06/06/07 04 Shaking causes aftershocks 06/06/05 03 Milky Way arms pinned down 06/06/02 02 Neutrino pioneer dies 06/06/01 01 A fresh look at glass
06/05/31 17 Property market set to slump 06/05/26 16 How to make an object invisible 06/05/25 15 Heavy ions feel the squeeze 06/05/24 14 Amateur astronomers prove their mettle 06/05/23 13 Silver clusters go magnetic 06/05/19 12 Change of focus for liquid crystals 06/05/18 11 Magnetic fields go to the maximum 06/05/17 10 LEDs move into the ultraviolet 06/05/17 09 Quantum gases in 3D 06/05/12 08 New look for Newton's bucket 06/05/11 07 Ships shed light on geomagnetic field 06/05/10 06 How Triton met Neptune 06/05/09 05 Titan in pictures 06/05/05 04 Hottest topic in physics revealed 06/05/05 03 Cyclic universe could explain cosmological constant 06/05/04 02 Ice freezes at room temperature 06/05/03 01 Plastics go metallic
06/04/28 15 New light on giant tilts 06/04/27 14 Insects inspire artificial eyes 06/04/27 13 Nuclear waste should be buried 06/04/26 12 US told to invest in particle physics 06/04/25 11 No WIMPS - only superWIMPS 06/04/21 10 Google unearths physics gems 06/04/20 09 Metals protect Milky Way from gamma-ray bursts 06/04/19 08 General relativity reveals its secrets 06/04/13 07 Putting equilibrium on hold 06/04/12 06 Fermilab probes matter-antimatter transitions 06/04/11 05 Physics goes to the movies 06/04/07 04 Water drops bounce into action 06/04/07 03 Spray-on silicon makes its debut 06/04/05 02 A new look for bifocals 06/04/04 01 Solitons show up in uranium
06/03/31 22 Galaxy simulation breaks new ground 06/03/30 21 Nanoscale boost for superwires 06/03/29 20 Naoparticles join a new league 06/03/27 19 Optical rotation sheds light on vacuum 06/03/24 18 New look for comets 06/03/23 17 Surface plasmons squeeze light 06/03/22 16 Incoherent boost for light surgery 06/03/21 15 Geomagnetic flip may not be random after all 06/03/17 14 New direction for cosmic radiation 06/03/16 13 Hurricane intensity linked to warmer oceans 06/03/15 12 Bosons form quantum threesome 06/03/15 11 Barrow lifts religion prize 06/03/14 10 Inner-ear mystery solved 06/03/13 09 Mars mission passes key test 06/03/10 08 Tiny motor turns giant rods 06/03/09 07 How to calculate hardness 06/03/08 06 The oldest explosion in the universe 06/03/07 05 Antiproton co-discoverer dies 06/03/06 04 Towards entangled-photon LEDs 06/03/03 03 Keeping cool with oxide films 06/03/02 02 Milky Way X-ray mystery solved 06/03/02 01 Retreiving data from a black hole
06/02/28 16 Artificial atoms amplify light 06/02/24 15 Physicists learn how to 'teleclone' 06/02/23 14 Entanglement heats up 06/02/22 13 Three's company 06/02/22 12 Lab boss makes surprise exit 06/02/21 11 Astronomers find a mixed-up solar system 06/02/17 10 Physicists look at birdsong 06/02/15 09 New type of star discovered 06/02/14 08 Nanotubes break superconducting record 06/02/10 07 The importance of staying clean 06/02/09 06 Great balls of lightning 06/02/08 05 Calculating with Bose condensates 06/02/07 04 Theorists claim dark energy does not exist 06/02/03 03 Fluid lenses feel the pressure 06/02/02 02 Quantum gravity for real 06/02/01 01 And then there were ten?
06/01/31 14 Light and atoms get entangled 06/01/26 13 Ceramics come out of the cold 06/01/25 12 Volcanoes reveal a new side 06/01/24 11 How physics can improve your football 06/01/20 10 Cruise control avoids jams 06/01/19 09 Matter bound by light 06/01/18 08 Comet samples return to Earth 06/01/17 07 Crystals light up 06/01/13 06 Pulsar breaks speed record 06/01/11 05 Live cells jetted with electric fields 06/01/10 04 New look for nanodetection 06/01/09 03 A medium-sized black hole? 06/01/05 02 Cosmic magnetism revealed 06/01/04 01 Closing in on Charon
Physics news, 2005 back to mamwad
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05/12/22 13 Review of the year 05/12/20 12 Ferromagnets and superconductors make negative-index materials 05/12/15 11 Hubble reveals dark-matter details 05/12/14 10 Fluids mix in reverse 05/12/13 09 Ions trapped on a chip 05/12/09 08 DNA pyramids make their debut 05/12/08 07 Perseus arm is closer than thought 05/12/07 06 Ministers support Europe in space 05/12/07 05 Photons create primitive quantum network 05/12/06 04 Exploding dark-matter balls predicted 05/12/02 03 Exotic materials and pulsars win European prize 05/12/02 02 Optical devices get fishy 05/12/01 01 Entanglement reaches new levels
05/11/30 18 Saturn's moon reveals its secrets 05/11/30 17 Einstein to star in global webcast 05/11/25 16 Nanotube foams are strong and flexible 05/11/24 15 Tiny swimmer makes a splash 05/11/23 14 Pseudogap puzzle for superconductors 05/11/22 13 Breakthrough for quantum measurement 05/11/18 12 Nanotubes beam out bright light 05/11/17 11 Chaos protects networks in Athens 05/11/16 10 How do stars form? 05/11/15 09 New look for optical microscopy 05/11/11 08 Sound waves target new applications 05/11/10 07 Search engines are not unfair 05/11/09 06 Electrons lose their mass in carbon sheets 05/11/08 05 Doing physics with bacteria 05/11/04 04 Einstein paper turns up on arXiv 05/11/03 03 Silicon chip puts the brakes on light 05/11/02 02 Tracking down the first stars 05/11/01 01 Could sound move at the speed of light?
05/10/31 18 Richard Smalley: 1943-2005 05/10/27 17 Beating the sub-wavelength limit 05/10/27 16 Tragedy at CERN 05/10/26 15 What do Einstein, Darwin and emails have in common? 05/10/25 14 Foam result surprises scientists 05/10/24 13 Nanocrystals enhance photovoltaics 05/10/24 12 Particles come to life 05/10/20 11 STM reveals molecular first 05/10/19 10 Making the most of doping 05/10/18 09 Nanotube switch makes its debut 05/10/14 08 Heavy ions damage DNA 05/10/13 07 Water in a whirl 05/10/12 06 Physics goes abstract 05/10/11 05 New look for Hall effect 05/10/07 04 Working with water waves 05/10/05 03 It takes two 05/10/05 02 Did warm waters fuel Hurricane Katrina? 05/10/04 01 Nobel prize recognizes optics researchers
05/09/30 18 Monitoring the Moon 05/09/29 17 Metallic superfluid seen in computer 05/09/28 16 New pill gets a grip 05/09/27 15 New look for laser accelerators 05/09/23 14 Can proteins perform logic? 05/09/22 13 A giant leap for nanodroplets 05/09/21 12 Thyristors go organic 05/09/20 11 Cold plasmas move on 05/09/16 10 A cold twist on the Hanbury Brown Twiss effect 05/09/16 09 What music do you like? 05/09/15 08 Nanomagnets come together 05/09/14 07 Sir Hermann Bondi: 1919 - 2005 05/09/08 06 Power walking 05/09/07 05 Colloids go exotic 05/09/06 04 Comet reveals its secrets 05/09/02 03 Joseph Rotblat dies 05/09/02 02 Europe plans laser-fusion facility 05/09/01 01 The physics of pasta
05/08/31 19 Big stars like to feed from dust 05/08/30 18 Foreign atoms trigger superconductivity in carbon 05/08/26 17 Diamonds are not forever 05/08/25 16 Critical breakthrough 05/08/25 15 How the Earth spins 05/08/24 14 Making ice at room temperature 05/08/23 13 Fibres control the speed of light 05/08/18 12 John Bahcall dies 05/08/18 11 Nanotubes make perfect diodes 05/08/17 10 Photonic crystals move into new areas 05/08/16 09 Number theory 05/08/11 08 The ups and downs of doping 05/08/10 07 Cluster makes turbulent breakthrough 05/08/09 06 Going for gold 05/08/08 05 Dirac Medal goes to condensed matter physicists 05/08/05 04 Hydrogen result causes controversy 05/08/04 03 Just add salt 05/08/02 02 Purity pays off for nanotubes 05/08/01 01 Solar system gets bigger
05/07/28 17 Quantum boost for optical clocks 05/07/27 16 Geoneutrinos make their debut 05/07/27 15 Surfaces have built-in 'fingerprints' 05/07/26 14 Electric fields move water droplets 05/07/22 13 Atomic crystals go 2D 05/07/21 12 Timing electrons 05/07/20 11 New light on the weak force 05/07/19 10 New look for hydrogen storage 05/07/19 09 Commemorating 60 years of the bomb 05/07/15 08 Is bubble fusion back? 05/07/14 07 Prizes reward high-energy physics 05/07/13 06 New exoplanet defies theory 05/07/13 05 Understanding the Boxing Day earthquake 05/07/11 04 Fingernails store personal information 05/07/07 03 Bottoms down for quarks 05/07/05 02 Swimming around in circles 05/07/04 01 Crash exposes comet's inner secrets
05/06/30 20 How do solids melt? 05/06/29 19 Magnetic surprise for liquids 05/06/28 18 Europe beats Japan to ITER prize 05/06/27 17 Plasma accelerators move on 05/06/23 16 New limits for exotic molecules 05/06/22 15 Vortices seen in Fermi gas 05/06/22 14 Jack Kilby: 1923-2005 05/06/20 13 Strange turn for protons 05/06/17 12 Superconducting nanowires pulse to a new beat 05/06/17 11 Entanglement made simple 05/06/16 10 Background neutrinos join the limelight 05/06/15 09 'Magic' numbers remain magic 05/06/13 08 'Smoking' grass leads to nanotubes 05/06/10 07 X-rays reveal more about exotic atoms 05/06/09 06 Molecular surprise in one dimension 05/06/08 05 Propane powers fuel cells 05/06/07 04 US bubble set to burst 05/06/03 03 Oxygen loses its magnetism under pressure 05/06/02 02 New light on early stars 05/06/01 01 How animals find things
05/05/26 18 Spontaneous improvements on the horizon 05/05/25 17 Solving three mysteries at once 05/05/24 16 Amino acids meet electronics 05/05/23 15 Lattice trap improves optical clocks 05/05/23 14 Tackling hospital epidemics 05/05/20 13 New isotope doubles up 05/05/19 12 Dots for data storage 05/05/18 11 Particle physicists discover new meson 05/05/17 10 Physicists tackle polluted rivers 05/05/13 09 Art turns to thermodynamics 05/05/12 08 Taking a close look at Titan 05/05/11 07 A recipe for making strings in the lab 05/05/11 06 Microscopes reach new depths 05/05/10 05 Quantum cryptography tackles video 05/05/06 04 How to make a blockbuster 05/05/05 03 Lens makers go flat out 05/05/04 02 Looking inside glass 05/05/02 01 Mechanical microscope nudges the nanoscale
05/04/28 16 Tiny fridge aims big 05/04/27 15 Fusion seen in table-top experiment 05/04/26 14 Bomb builder turned critic passes away 05/04/26 13 Supercomputing 'Grid' passes latest test 05/04/21 12 Superlens breakthrough 05/04/20 11 Negative refraction goes optical 05/04/19 10 Quark-gluon plasma goes liquid 05/04/18 09 Unnatural look for nickel 05/04/15 08 And then there were two 05/04/14 07 New transistor breaks speed record 05/04/12 06 Nickel nuclei yield magic finding 05/04/08 05 Photonic crystals come under the microscope 05/04/07 04 White dwarf feels the heat - again 05/04/06 03 Turning the lotus effect on its head 05/04/04 02 Breaking the ice 05/04/01 01 Phononic crystals go hypersonic
05/03/31 18 New look for molecular transistors 05/03/30 17 Unconventional wisdom 05/03/24 16 Cosmic rays enter the 'dark' age 05/03/23 15 First light from exoplanets 05/03/22 14 New look for nanomotors 05/03/22 13 Einstein on CD 05/03/18 12 Microscope zooms in on crystallisation 05/03/16 11 Counting electrons one by one 05/03/15 10 Photonic crystal slows down light 05/03/10 09 Chromium condensate makes its mark 05/03/09 08 Can stars become only so big? 05/03/09 07 Laser pioneer scoops religion prize 05/03/08 06 New look for the kilogram 05/03/08 05 Atom bomb designer dies 05/03/07 04 Total reflection doubles up 05/03/03 03 Bubbles feel the heat 05/03/02 02 Galaxies break new records 05/03/02 01 New look for classic experiment
05/02/26 16 Bacteria turn to chemistry 05/02/25 15 Cassini reveals Saturn's secrets 05/02/24 14 Have we seen the first 'dark galaxy'? 05/02/23 13 New look for chemical bonds 05/02/21 12 The biggest bang 05/02/18 11 Novel molecule makes its debut 05/02/17 10 Mars Express gets busy 05/02/16 09 Neutrinos for geophysics 05/02/14 08 Longer lives for organic LEDs 05/02/11 07 Astronomers find smallest exoplanet 05/02/10 06 Global terrorism follows a power law 05/02/08 05 Nanobelts tackle nerve gases 05/02/07 04 Optics enters the single-cycle regime 05/02/03 03 'End states' come into view 05/02/02 02 Astronomers find missing baryons 05/02/01 01 Making a splash
05/01/27 16 Cosmologists win Crafoord award 05/01/26 15 Winters warm up 05/01/25 14 Antiprotons galore 05/01/24 13 Making porous semiconductors 05/01/21 12 Mechanical ear makes its debut 05/01/19 11 Looking at electrons without touching 05/01/18 10 Wolf prize goes to atomic physicist 05/01/17 09 Devices controlled by thought move closer 05/01/13 08 All change for stellar evolution 05/01/12 07 Galaxy surveys put cosmology on sound footing 05/01/11 06 Why stalactites are all similar? 05/01/11 05 X-ray satellite chalks up black hole first 05/01/10 04 Making microscopes go faster 05/01/06 03 Nanotubes respond to gas attacks 05/01/06 02 Nanowires form atomic switch 05/01/05 01 All-silicon laser makes its debut
Physics news, 2004 back to mamwad
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04/12/23 13 Highlights of the year 04/12/22 12 Microlever feels the chill 04/12/20 11 Supercool helium ions make their debut 04/12/16 10 Science selects 'Water on Mars' as breakthrough of the year 04/12/15 09 Molecular orbitals come into view 04/12/14 08 Red blood cells are go! 04/12/10 07 A microscopic 'fountain pen' 04/12/09 06 Ups and downs for superconducting films 04/12/08 05 Physicist solves desert mystery 04/12/06 04 Magnetic effects seen in water 04/12/03 03 New look for nanofabrication 04/12/02 02 Quantum cryptography wins Descartes prize 04/12/01 01 Quantum errors can be corrected
04/11/30 15 Physicists tackle linguistics 04/11/25 14 Astrophysicist thinks big 04/11/24 13 Axion experiment makes its debut 04/11/22 12 Fermilab names new director 04/11/22 11 Swift takes off 04/11/18 10 Good news for causality 04/11/17 09 Neutrino oscillations are here to stay 04/11/16 08 Equivalence principle passes atomic test 04/11/12 07 Hall effect takes a spin 04/11/11 06 Superconductors take an odd turn 04/11/10 05 A train that runs on feathers 04/11/09 04 IBM tops supercomputing table 04/11/04 03 A new type of solar cell 04/11/03 02 Saturn gets a shock 04/11/01 01 To see more neutrinos, just add salt
04/10/29 18 Optical trap dates Egyptian water 04/10/28 17 Liquids double up 04/10/27 16 Sunspots hit new highs 04/10/26 15 Mechanical memories take off 04/10/22 14 Silicon nanocrystals made easy 04/10/21 13 Carbon goes ballistic 04/10/20 12 Relativity passes latest test 04/10/19 11 Magnetic sensors tackle viruses 04/10/15 10 Superstructures add to superconducting mystery 04/10/14 09 Earthquake shakes up gravity 04/10/13 08 Composite fibres light up 04/10/11 07 Fingerprint model makes an impression 04/10/08 06 Nanodevices target viruses 04/10/07 05 DNA imager dies 04/10/06 04 Nanotubes shape up for spintronics 04/10/05 03 Strong-force theorists scoop Nobel prize 04/10/01 02 Pionium atoms arrive en masse 04/10/01 01 Angular pits boost DVD storage
04/09/29 17 Table-top accelerators make progress 04/09/28 16 The small world of Brazilian soccer 04/09/24 15 Law-breaking liquid defies the rules 04/09/23 14 Mars attacked by solar wind 04/09/22 13 Explosive breakthrough 04/09/21 12 Radioactivity speeds up 04/09/16 11 Microscope focuses on sub-Angstrom scales 04/09/15 10 Nanotubes feel the force 04/09/14 09 Petroleum under pressure 04/09/13 08 Have we seen an exoplanet? 04/09/10 07 Tiny writing heats up 04/09/09 06 Taking a close look at turbulence 04/09/08 05 Nanoparticles target tumours 04/09/07 04 Magic clusters double up 04/09/06 03 Floating femtodroplets 04/09/03 02 NIST unveils smallest atomic clock 04/09/02 01 Evidence for supersolid is firmed up
04/08/31 18 A small step for extrasolar planets 04/08/27 17 Looking inside a laser pulse 04/08/25 16 Taking a chance on physics 04/08/25 15 New look for NMR 04/08/20 14 German lab wins linear collider contest 04/08/19 13 Cryptography system goes underground 04/08/18 12 New moons galore for the solar system 04/08/17 11 Colder, slower, better 04/08/12 10 Closing in on planet formation 04/08/11 09 Glass breakthrough 04/08/10 08 Physicists stop forgers in their tracks 04/08/10 07 Particle theorists win Dirac Medal 04/08/09 06 Examining Newton's darker side 04/08/06 05 New tools for blocked arteries 04/08/05 04 Rover reveals magnetic Mars 04/08/04 03 Faint gamma-ray bursts on the horizon 04/08/03 02 Women needed for bed-rest study 04/08/03 01 Dramatic differences found in matter and antimatter
04/07/30 19 Lunar rock sheds new light on the Moon 04/07/30 18 DNA pioneer dies 04/07/29 17 UK study calls for extra safety measures for nanotechnology 04/07/29 16 Table-top synchrotron defies convention 04/07/28 15 Liquid separation goes electric 04/07/26 14 Graphite magnets get ready for applications 04/07/23 13 STM turns atoms into ions 04/07/22 12 Fermi gas goes superfluid 04/07/22 11 Hawking loses black hole bet 04/07/20 10 Cancer detection made faster 04/07/16 09 Negative refraction goes acoustic 04/07/14 08 Single spins come into view 04/07/13 07 £1bn boost for UK science 04/07/12 06 Did cosmic rays cause ice ages? 04/07/09 05 Quantum well energizes nanocrystals 04/07/08 04 Microscopy moves to 4D 04/07/07 03 Old galaxies shed new light on young universe 04/07/05 02 US team breaks power density record 04/07/01 01 New shift seen in cyclotrons
04/06/30 18 Entanglement breaks new record 04/06/29 17 Could dark energy be studied in the lab? 04/06/25 16 Russian physicist scoops low temperature award 04/06/24 15 New look for molecular photodiodes 04/06/24 14 New light on dark energy 04/06/23 13 Thomas Gold: 1920-2004 04/06/22 12 Extraterrestrial impact created in the lab 04/06/18 11 New particle baffles physicists 04/06/16 10 Teleportation breaks new ground 04/06/16 09 Astrophysics project wins outreach award 04/06/15 08 Bill Bryson bags book prize 04/06/11 07 Self-assembly made easy 04/06/10 06 Microscopy moves to the picoscale 04/06/09 05 Over the top 04/06/08 04 Elephants turn to seismic communication 04/06/04 03 Nanobulbs make their debut 04/06/03 02 New clues in search for theory of superconductivity 04/06/02 01 Hidden black holes come into view
04/05/28 14 Physicists tackle EU constitution 04/05/27 13 Solar explosions seen in 3D 04/05/26 12 Single-electron transistor goes mechanical 04/05/24 11 Stars may be older than we think 04/05/21 10 Nanotubes switch back and forth 04/05/19 09 When bosons behave like fermions 04/05/18 08 The turbulent life of dolphins 04/05/13 07 SLAC sees parity violation in electrons 04/05/12 06 Entanglement beats the diffraction limit 04/05/11 05 Brain scans made easy 04/05/07 04 Accelerating universe will limit technology 04/05/06 03 Viruses go from strength to strength 04/05/05 02 Dark matter remains at large 04/05/04 01 Physics meets archaeometry in ancient Greece
04/04/30 15 Nanotube transistors speed up 04/04/29 14 Carbon-50 makes its debut 04/04/28 13 Making new minerals on the Moon 04/04/27 12 Physics and fame 04/04/23 11 Physics goes to Hollywood 04/04/21 10 Magnetic recording has a speed limit 04/04/20 09 Spiders get a grip 04/04/20 08 Gravity Probe B takes off 04/04/15 07 Fermi gases approach superfluid regime 04/04/14 06 Terahertz radiation targets skin cancer 04/04/13 05 Reversal of fortune for Turin Shroud 04/04/08 04 Geophysicists turn up the pressure 04/04/08 03 When did stars form? 04/04/06 02 Gravitational-wave detector goes underground 04/04/02 01 Physicists move closer to the quantum limit
04/03/31 17 Superconducting diamond turns up in Russia 04/03/30 16 Claustrophobics breathe sigh of relief at new MRI scanner 04/03/25 15 Ultrasound imaging goes supersonic 04/03/23 14 Rare kaon decay hints at new physics 04/03/23 13 Nano-foam makes magnetic debut 04/03/22 12 Prizes reward cosmologists 04/03/19 11 Femtosecond lasers aid frequency standards 04/03/18 10 Mars Express finds water – official 04/03/17 09 Charmed pentaquark appears at DESY 04/03/15 08 DNA detection made easy 04/03/12 07 Single molecules pass doping test 04/03/11 06 Looking inside planets 04/03/10 05 French researchers put pressure on the government 04/03/08 04 Carbon nanotubes go magnetic 04/03/04 03 Bubble fusion makes controversial return 04/03/03 02 Making atoms cooler 04/03/01 01 Galaxy breaks distance record
04/02/27 14 Zinc-oxide nanorings circle new applications 04/02/26 13 Revealing the secrets of planetary formation 04/02/25 12 Spintronics goes organic 04/02/24 11 Mass detection enters attogram regime 04/02/19 10 Closing in on a theory of superconductivity 04/02/18 09 Looking at decoherence 04/02/16 08 Packing them in 04/02/13 07 Silicon achieves optical success 04/02/12 06 Fuel cells turn to alcohol 04/02/11 05 Radical molecule breaks the rules 04/02/06 04 Physicists attack cosmological model 04/02/05 03 Are you just four steps away from a genius? 04/02/04 02 Crystal breaks surface area record 04/02/03 01 Elements 115 and 113 discovered in Dubna
04/01/30 15 Electromagnets double up 04/01/28 14 Fermionic condensate makes its debut 04/01/28 13 X-rays light up gamma-ray burst 04/01/27 12 Medical physicists think small 04/01/26 11 'ViriChip' shows up viruses 04/01/23 10 Climate model predicts even hotter summers 04/01/22 09 Condensate research heats up 04/01/20 08 Wolf prize goes to particle theorists 04/01/16 07 Argon accuracy reaches new limit 04/01/14 06 Supersolid is seen in the lab 04/01/13 05 Lasers overcome the Lorentz force 04/01/09 04 First double pulsar comes into view 04/01/08 03 Muons continue to defy Standard Model 04/01/07 02 Supernova survivor lives to tell the tale 04/01/06 01 The life and death of antibubbles
Physics news, 2003 back to mamwad
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03/12/19 11 Highlights of the year 03/12/19 10 A BRIL-I-NT new game for C-R-STMAS 03/12/17 09 Magnetism on the move 03/12/17 08 New doubts on dark energy 03/12/16 07 Another superconductor shows up 03/12/12 06 Radio waves tackle dehydration 03/12/10 05 Switching light on and off 03/12/09 04 Indium nitride springs a surprise 03/12/05 03 Radar reveals asteroid force 03/12/02 02 Solar activity reaches new high 03/12/01 01 Scientists bring light to sharpest focus
03/11/28 16 New look for the Doppler effect 03/11/26 15 Plasma physicists move into medicine 03/11/26 14 EU backs France as ITER site 03/11/24 13 DNA self-assembles nanotube transistor 03/11/21 12 Optical vortices show their true colours 03/11/21 11 Displays scoop Descartes prize 03/11/19 10 New look for micro fuel cells 03/11/19 09 Condensates enter new era 03/11/17 08 Nanowires drop out of fluid research 03/11/14 07 New particle turns up in Japan 03/11/13 06 Nanotubes join the army 03/11/12 05 Data storage made easy 03/11/11 04 Ups and downs for big projects 03/11/06 03 Mesons violate Bell's inequality 03/11/05 02 Mixed messages from the edge of the solar system 03/11/03 01 NMR breakthrough for bone fracture
03/10/30 16 Photonic crystals boost semiconductor lasers 03/10/29 15 A new spin on black holes 03/10/27 14 Gold plating on the cheap 03/10/23 13 Cosmic-ray detector breaks size record 03/10/22 12 Super-cool detector spots single photons 03/10/21 11 Extracting electricity from water 03/10/17 10 Negative-index materials made easy 03/10/16 09 Frogs turn to physics 03/10/15 08 New conductor stands the heat 03/10/13 07 Nanothermometers feel the heat 03/10/09 06 Darmstadt gets credit for new elements 03/10/08 05 Is the universe a dodecahedron? 03/10/07 04 Nobel prize goes to low-temperature theorists 03/10/06 03 Physicist shares Nobel prize for medicine 03/10/02 02 Have physicists seen magnetic monopoles? 03/10/01 01 Magnetic logic devices move closer
03/09/29 16 Hidden graphite atoms revealed 03/09/25 15 Electronic paper reaches video speeds 03/09/24 14 General relativity passes Cassini test 03/09/23 13 New look for ball lightning 03/09/19 12 Hollow fibre carries megawatt pulses 03/09/18 11 Nanowires line up for plastic electronics 03/09/17 10 First light for one-atom laser 03/09/16 09 Silicon joins race to redefine the kilogram 03/09/12 08 Bose-Einstein condensates break temperature record 03/09/10 07 Carbon dating confirms origins of biblical tunnel 03/09/10 06 Edward Teller dies 03/09/09 05 Gold lights up biological cells 03/09/05 04 Biomolecule behaves like a wave 03/09/04 03 A new place to store toxic waste? 03/09/03 02 Entanglement goes macroscopic 03/09/01 01 Dark matter deficiency puts theory in the shade
03/08/28 15 Quantum effect improves tomography 03/08/27 14 Turbulent breakthrough in superfluid helium 03/08/22 13 Cold molecules come of age 03/08/21 12 Carbonates found on Mars 03/08/20 11 Nanotubes boost ceramic performance 03/08/18 10 Squeezed light breaks quantum barrier 03/08/14 09 Microscope sketches quantum circuits 03/08/13 08 Lasers tackle radioactive waste 03/08/11 07 Amino acid detected in space 03/08/11 06 Dirac Medal recognizes work on turbulence 03/08/08 05 Quantum logic gate lights up 03/08/07 04 Where do supernovae come from? 03/08/06 03 Archaeology turns to superconductivity 03/08/04 02 Organic devices get back on track 03/08/01 01 Molecules build a bridge to spintronics
03/07/31 22 Ytterbium joins the condensates 03/07/30 21 Llewellyn Smith to lead UK fusion programme 03/07/29 20 Superconductors could help Europe meet Kyoto target 03/07/25 19 Nanoactuator gets in a spin 03/07/24 18 Why is the tropopause getting higher? 03/07/23 17 Stars make an early entrance 03/07/23 16 VIRGO takes off 03/07/22 15 Particles win prizes 03/07/18 14 Nanoparticles reinforce steel 03/07/17 13 Zealots put the spin into voting 03/07/16 12 Nanoscale sensor approaches the quantum regime 03/07/14 11 Rashid Sunyaev wins cosmology prize 03/07/11 10 A new way to flip bits 03/07/10 09 Fast and slow light made easy 03/07/10 08 Nanotubes make miniature gas sensors 03/07/09 07 Pressure builds on Pluto 03/07/09 06 Super-fast microscope comes into focus 03/07/04 05 Nuclear physicists confirm element 110 discovery 03/07/03 04 Where did the Moon come from? 03/07/02 03 Fermi gas atoms form supercool molecules 03/07/01 02 New look for nanowire devices 03/07/01 01 Physicists discover particle with five quarks
03/06/30 20 Entanglement bridges the Danube 03/06/27 19 Nanotubes go their separate ways 03/06/26 18 Nanocrystals double up 03/06/25 17 Giant jets caught on camera 03/06/24 16 Room-temperature single-electron devices made easier 03/06/20 15 Super-cool thermometer relies on noise 03/06/18 14 RHIC unveils new results 03/06/18 13 Micromachines made easy 03/06/17 12 Celebrating Einstein with dance 03/06/17 11 Spinning star goes flat out 03/06/13 10 Fuel cells: environmental friend or foe? 03/06/12 09 New look for space shuttle tiles 03/06/11 08 Closing in on neutron stars 03/06/11 07 Renaissance pottery comes under the microscope 03/06/09 06 Cryptography breaks 100 km barrier 03/06/06 05 Water reaches new depths 03/06/05 04 'Gecko tape' sticks with polymer fibres 03/06/04 03 Hydrogen goes universal 03/06/03 02 Insects stay cool with thermoelectricity 03/06/02 01 Mars Express takes off
03/05/31 18 Scientists spy on growing nanoparticles 03/05/30 17 Viscount Ilya Prigogine 1917-2003 03/05/30 16 Starquakes shed light on stellar evolution 03/05/28 15 Positronium puzzle is solved 03/05/23 14 Supermassive black hole binary might lurk in nearby galaxy 03/05/22 13 Transistors go transparent 03/05/22 12 Thermopower in a spin 03/05/20 11 Superconductivity and magnetism in harmony 03/05/16 10 Cobalt breaks magnetism record 03/05/15 09 Entanglement reaches new lengths 03/05/14 08 Route one to the centre of the Earth 03/05/13 07 Could neutrinos destroy nuclear weapons? 03/05/09 06 First light for pure silicon 03/05/08 05 Tinnitus treatment tones up 03/05/07 04 Potassium-40 heats up Earth's core 03/05/02 03 Carbon nanotubes light up 03/05/01 02 Heavy elements lend weight to early stars 03/05/01 01 Magnesium diboride at the double
03/04/30 20 BaBar detects new particle 03/04/30 19 Cold plasmas destroy bacteria 03/04/25 18 Titan may have an icy surface 03/04/24 17 Physicists investigate brain power 03/04/23 16 Bismuth breaks half-life record for alpha decay 03/04/22 15 Computer models make 'super-alloys' 03/04/18 14 Caesium violates parity in a new way 03/04/17 13 Giant CCD imager snaps first shot 03/04/16 12 Light flashes investigated on Mir 03/04/15 11 Solar cells become thinner and cheaper 03/04/11 10 Novel crystals form under pressure 03/04/09 09 Gold floats in magnetized oxygen 03/04/08 08 Breaking charge symmetry with nuclei 03/04/08 07 Z-fusion makes progress 03/04/08 06 New neutrons for European scientists 03/04/04 05 Can diamond now be a superconductor? 03/04/03 04 Energy R&D needs more investment 03/04/03 03 Solar surgery makes progress 03/04/02 02 Double funding boost for Daresbury 03/04/02 01 B mesons decay in a new way
03/03/28 18 Ruby slows light at room temperature 03/03/26 17 Black holes give as well as take 03/03/27 16 Energetic star becomes a cool supergiant 03/03/26 15 Trapped ions make logic gates 03/03/25 14 Nuclear era ends at Risø 03/03/21 13 Gamma-ray after-glow reveals new secrets 03/03/20 12 Good news for negative-index materials 03/03/19 11 Muons join the fight against nuclear smugglers 03/03/18 10 European research performance comes under scrutiny 03/03/17 09 Terahertz breakthrough at BESSY 03/03/14 08 Silver nanoclusters make logic gates 03/03/12 07 How the Earth's core was formed 03/03/12 06 New structure seen in the Crab pulsar 03/03/11 05 Making physics work for the economy 03/03/07 04 Optical microscopy sets new records 03/03/07 03 Hydrogen-7 makes its debut 03/03/06 02 Mars might have a soft centre 03/03/05 01 Water helps cobalt oxide to become a superconductor
03/02/28 15 Glass behaves like a metal 03/02/27 14 No sign yet of extra dimensions 03/02/26 13 Photonic circuits move a step closer 03/02/25 12 Lorentz symmetry stays intact 03/02/21 11 Single molecule switches for less 03/02/20 10 Hubble photographs the Boomerang Nebula 03/02/20 09 Nanowires approach the quantum realm 03/02/19 08 Qubits are on solid ground 03/02/18 07 Superconductor transistor breaks records 03/02/13 06 Teleportation moves on 03/02/12 05 Astronomers detect 'missing' baryons 03/02/11 04 Ancient radiation sheds new light on the universe 03/02/08 03 Dyes boost solar cells 03/02/06 02 Novel photomasks make 3-D microstructures 03/02/03 01 DNA acts like a 'piston'
03/01/31 18 How do stones skip? 03/01/31 17 US rejoins ITER negotiations 03/01/30 16 New director of Brookhaven unveiled 03/01/30 15 New planet challenges theorists 03/01/29 14 Nobel laureates oppose war against Iraq 03/01/24 13 Molecular dots rise for information storage 03/01/23 12 First quasars shed light on the early universe 03/01/22 11 Adaptive optics may help opticians 03/01/20 10 Fires destroy world-renowned observatory 03/01/17 09 New look for Cerenkov radiation 03/01/16 08 Bad news for code breakers 03/01/16 07 Nanowire lasers go electric 03/01/15 06 Comet chaser is grounded 03/01/14 05 Life, death and physics 03/01/10 04 Nanotechnology is good for the heart 03/01/09 03 Rayleigh jets come into view 03/01/08 02 Gravity and light move at the same speed 03/01/07 01 Los Alamos director resigns
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02/12/20 14 Highlights of the Year 02/12/18 13 Brightness boost for organic LEDs 02/12/18 12 Sand-dune science creeps ahead 02/12/18 11 Noise threatens Moore's Law 02/12/13 10 Plasma physicist to head CERN 02/12/12 09 Ultra-cold Fermi gases enter new regime 02/12/11 08 More evidence for neutrino oscillation 02/12/10 07 Physics gets shot in the arm 02/12/10 06 Proxima Centauri comes into focus 02/12/06 05 Caesium condensate makes its debut 02/12/06 04 Astrophysicists bag Euro prize 02/12/06 03 A sound way to make polymers 02/12/04 02 Anti-bubbles hint at fragile economic prospects 02/12/04 01 Derek Robinson 1941 - 2002
02/11/29 18 Antiprotons probe hyperfine splitting 02/11/29 17 Physics teaching comes down to earth 02/11/27 16 Light powers artificial membrane 02/11/22 15 Magnets double up 02/11/22 14 Semiconductor lights up solar cells 02/11/22 13 Imaging an infant brain 02/11/21 12 Plasma accelerators take shape 02/11/20 11 Plutonium is also a superconductor 02/11/15 10 Sunspots come into focus 02/11/14 09 Power from terahertz beams 02/11/13 08 Magnetic meteorites 02/11/13 07 Evidence for 'dark energy' gets stronger 02/11/08 06 Easy escape for Martian meteorites 02/11/08 05 Nanowires within nanowires 02/11/06 04 X-rays probe neutron stars 02/11/06 03 New director at ICTP 02/11/05 02 World record for silicon light-emission 02/11/01 01 Electronic devices based on single molecules
02/10/31 20 Old star sheds light on creation of elements 02/10/30 19 First glimpses inside an anti-atom 02/10/29 18 Per Bak 1948 - 2002 02/10/25 17 First light for attophysics 02/10/24 16 Molecules power nanoscale computers 02/10/23 15 Quantum logic: to be, or NOT to be? 02/10/22 14 Lasers target hard drugs 02/10/17 13 INTEGRAL takes off 02/10/16 12 The Milky Way's dark secret 02/10/16 11 Cesium joins the condensates 02/10/14 10 Lithium joins the superconductors 02/10/11 09 Hollow core cuts Raman thresholds 02/10/10 08 X-rays illuminate nova explosions 02/10/08 07 Nobel Prize rewards neutrino astrophysics and X-ray astronomy 02/10/07 06 Beer paper wins Ig Nobel physics prize 02/10/03 05 Quantum key travels record distance 02/10/03 04 Pugwash urges end to weapons 02/10/02 03 Invisible circuits in a flash 02/10/01 02 Atom lithography sees the light 02/10/01 01 Water powers novel chips
02/09/25 15 Bell Labs physicist fired for misconduct 02/09/25 14 Poles hint at past climate on Mars 02/09/24 13 Laser pioneer loses court battle 02/09/19 12 Cosmic microwaves get polarized 02/09/18 11 Cold antiatoms arrive in large numbers 02/09/16 10 NASA names the successor to Hubble 02/09/16 09 HP announces molecular electronics breakthrough 02/09/16 08 Nuclei reveal novel decay 02/09/16 07 Optical tweezers grab the limelight 02/09/16 06 Stars prove their magnetic attraction 02/09/13 05 MEMs see the light 02/09/13 04 DNA gives new life to dye lasers 02/09/12 03 Diamond - a physicist's best friend 02/09/11 02 Female-friendly physics 02/09/10 01 Condensate cracks Fermi gas
02/08/30 17 Gekos' feet get sticky from static 02/08/29 16 Martin Deutsch 1917 - 2002 02/08/27 15 Climate prediction gets a boost 02/08/23 14 Waves and the sounds of science 02/08/22 13 Innovations boost disabled literacy 02/08/20 12 Hope fades for comet mission 02/08/20 11 Anti-matter made easy - on paper 02/08/15 10 EPS announces prize winners 02/08/14 09 Magnetism diboride: mind the gaps 02/08/14 08 Prize opportunity for women in condensed matter 02/08/08 07 Water vapour supplies new climate clues 02/08/08 06 Electrons probe single atoms 02/08/08 05 Cosmologists collect 2002 Dirac medal 02/08/06 04 Lasers lick dentists' drills 02/08/02 03 Scientists push for laser links in space 02/08/02 02 Semiconductors stride ahead 02/08/01 01 Earth's expanding girth
02/07/30 21 Muons measurements bounce back 02/07/29 20 B factories close in on CP violation 02/07/25 19 Photons double up for solar power 02/07/24 18 Bubble bursts for 'sono-fusion' 02/07/24 17 US maps fusion landscape 02/07/23 16 DNA goes spintronic 02/07/19 15 Mobile NMR leaves the field behind 02/07/19 14 Ultrashort pulses help gene therapy 02/07/18 13 Earthshine sheds light on extrasolar planets 02/07/17 12 Entanglement passes screen test 02/07/16 11 Small systems defy second law 02/07/15 10 UK science nets extra cash 02/07/12 09 Silicon atoms play a bit part 02/07/11 08 X-ray beams thin out 02/07/10 07 Diamond-free space dust puzzles astronomers 02/07/10 06 Electron pairs behave like bosons 02/07/05 05 Young stars challenge old ideas 02/07/04 04 Crystalline silicon shapes up 02/07/03 03 Nano-boost for data storage 02/07/03 02 Laser lights up water droplets 02/07/03 01 Oil company's 'microlepton' technology dismissed
02/06/26 17 Electron pulses reach the femtosecond scale 02/06/26 16 Galactic lenses cut black holes down to size 02/06/26 15 Defects combine to make perfect devices 02/06/26 14 Hawking scoops book prize 02/06/24 13 KEK names new leader 02/06/20 12 Silver foils the diffraction limit 02/06/20 11 Magnetic spins to store quantum information 02/06/19 10 Laser lithography makes cheaper chips 02/06/19 09 Jets unravel nebula puzzle 02/06/14 08 Single photons to soak up data 02/06/13 07 Magnets open the gate to nanoscale logic 02/06/12 06 Tiny transistors nudge the nanoscale 02/06/11 05 Lasers propel paper aeroplanes 02/06/10 04 Lawrence Livermore names new boss 02/06/07 03 Three more nations offer to host $4bn fusion experiment 02/06/06 02 New phase shift for neutron 02/06/04 01 Quantum dots count microwave photons
02/05/30 21 Tantalizing evidence for molecular condensation 02/05/30 20 Odyssey finds evidence for ice on Mars 02/05/29 19 Astronomers tune in to youngest pulsar yet 02/05/28 18 Europe unveils new plan for space science 02/05/27 17 Multi-talented material signals new devices 02/05/24 16 CBI zooms in on cosmic microwaves 02/05/23 15 Molecular electronics claims called into question 02/05/23 14 Crystals get in a twist 02/05/22 13 'Nanotorus' nets giant magnetic moment 02/05/20 12 Jupiter clocks up eleven new moons 02/05/17 11 Condensates get longer lives 02/05/16 10 Noisy signals strengthen human brainwaves 02/05/15 09 Lights switch to organic LEDs 02/05/14 08 Physicists get a taste of `tetraneutrons' 02/05/10 07 Neutrino pioneer wins 2001 National Medal of Science 02/05/10 06 Molecular machines get light battery 02/05/08 05 Semiconductors plug tetrahertz gap 02/05/08 04 Doubt cast on 'left-handed' materials 02/05/03 03 Small-scale radiation check for mobile phones 02/05/01 02 LCDs paint a bright future 02/05/01 01 Silver surface boosts supercondivity
02/04/30 22 Long polymers light up LEDs 02/04/26 21 Cyclic universe bounces back 02/04/25 20 Nanotubes reach flash point 02/04/25 19 Victor Weisskopf 02/04/25 18 Cosmic rays reveal their roots 02/04/24 17 Acoustics map out the brass section 02/04/23 16 Cooperation to answer cosmic questions 02/04/22 15 Physicists scoop cool prize 02/04/22 14 New results back neutrino oscillation 02/04/18 13 Photonic fibres weave smart fabrics 02/04/18 12 Spintronics gets serious 02/04/17 11 Solutions to the skills gap 02/04/17 10 NMR could help clear landmines 02/04/16 09 Super-sensor seeks out water 02/04/12 08 Condensed matter escapes the lab 02/04/11 07 Binary asteroid apperas on the radar 02/04/10 06 Hydrogen metal on the horizon 02/04/10 05 Bright future for UK laser 02/04/09 04 Microscopes move to smaller scales 02/04/05 03 Ultrasound targets brain surgery 02/04/04 02 Sound check for the Sun's magnetic dynamo 02/04/02 01 Superconductors tell left from right
02/03/28 21 Photons get the quantum cloning treatment 02/03/28 20 Earth's magnetic field linked to changing orbit 02/03/27 19 CERN delays collider start-up 02/03/25 18 The physics of classical poetry 02/03/25 17 Superconductivity clue comes out of the blue 02/03/21 16 Binary star breaks speed record 02/03/20 15 A recipe for female success 02/03/20 14 Losses and games for quantum computers 02/03/18 13 Willibald Jentschke 1911-2002 02/03/15 12 Astronomers see the most distant galaxy yet 02/03/15 11 'DNA computer' cracks code 02/03/14 10 Physicist scoops religion prize 02/03/13 09 Light flashes charge the atmosphere 02/03/12 08 Physicists forecast 'super-Niño' 02/03/08 07 Thermal emission goes coherent 02/03/08 06 Cold atoms carry light pulses 02/03/06 05 US could beam neutrinos to Japan 02/03/05 04 Fusion-in-a-bubble sparks controversy 02/03/04 03 Institute of Physics names next chief executive 02/03/01 02 New clue for planet hunters 02/03/01 01 Holograms help build 3D nanostructures
02/02/28 21 Miccro-jets make designer droplets 02/02/27 20 Spacecraft join forces at Jupiter 02/02/26 19 The physics of personal income 02/02/22 18 Prizes reward geophysics and optoelectronics 02/02/21 17 Crystals give clues to ancient cosmetics 02/02/20 16 Semiconductor laser makes broadband debut 02/02/19 15 Acoustics sound out strained steel 02/02/15 14 Spider-Man spins a web of contacts 02/02/14 13 Molecules test electron dipole 02/02/13 12 Triple jump lights up laser 02/02/13 11 Supernova link to ancient extinction 02/02/11 10 Rare decay claim stirs controversy 02/02/08 09 'Lasetron' could probe the nucleus 02/02/08 08 Scrunched sheets resist pressure 02/02/06 07 Silica spheres make low-power laser 02/02/06 06 Nanotubes feel the heat 02/02/06 05 New letters expose war-time secrets 02/02/06 04 Max Perutz 02/02/05 03 Sound waves size up sonoluminescence 02/02/04 02 The quantum afterburner 02/02/01 01 New experiment to probe netrino mass
02/01/31 20 Quantum wires probe electrons 02/01/30 19 Materials win medals 02/01/28 18 Organics aid planetary aggregation 02/01/25 17 Laser tweezers get a grip on DNA 02/01/24 16 Secret of superconductivity in sight 02/01/23 15 Artificial black holes on the horizon 02/01/23 14 Medics get a dose of physics 02/01/22 13 Electrical pulses break light speed record 02/01/18 12 First light on Gemini South 02/01/18 11 Robert Hanbury Brown 02/01/17 10 Probe to predict landslides and earthquakes 02/01/17 09 Neutrons reveal quantum effects of gravity 02/01/16 08 Nuclei put a new spin on quantum computing 02/01/15 07 Crystal catches light pulses 02/01/10 06 George Rochester 02/01/10 05 Aleksander Prokhorov 02/01/09 04 Attractive advance towards magnetic refrigerator 02/01/09 03 Space-age material could restore sight 02/01/08 02 Cool laser puts special relativity to the test 02/01/07 01 New look for Bose condensates
Physics news, 2001 back to mamwad
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01/12/20 11 Highlights of the year 01/12/19 10 Leading neutron lab appoints new director 01/12/17 09 CERN to find funds for costly collider 01/12/17 08 Uncertainty over muon result 01/12/14 07 UK research hits new heights 01/12/13 06 Single-photon machine gears up 01/12/12 05 Random laser feels the heat 01/12/11 04 A new twist for stellar magnetism 01/12/07 03 'Microlens' could bring dark matter into focus 01/12/07 02 Solar cell edges towards endless energy 01/12/04 01 Ice crystals pull together
01/11/29 17 Stellar link helps black holes weigh in 01/11/28 16 Super-short laser flashes light up ultra-fast events 01/11/27 15 Sodium spotted in the atmosphere of distant planet 01/11/23 14 Small is beautiful for new neutron generator 01/11/22 13 Simple superconductor sheds light on its complex cousins 01/11/21 12 Liquid crystals single out microwaves 01/11/16 11 Magnetic polymer makes its debut 01/11/15 10 Star signs first light in cosmos 01/11/15 09 Accident grounds neutrino lab 01/11/14 08 Old star caught in the act 01/11/14 07 Quickening pulses probe plasma 01/11/09 06 Canaries sing simple harmonics 01/11/09 05 Shrinking electronics charges ahead 01/11/08 04 Fresh light shed on black holes 01/11/08 03 Rave review for Hawking's new book 01/11/02 02 Physicists go for goal 01/11/01 01 Taking a closer look at light
01/10/31 18 US group calls for new linear collider 01/10/30 17 Quantum Hall effect gets new dimensions 01/10/30 16 Leicester imports student hotshots 01/10/26 15 Super shock absorber could protect buildings 01/10/26 14 Dynamo effect forces energy from black holes 01/10/25 13 X-ray device sets pulses racing 01/10/19 12 OSA elects British president 01/10/18 11 Organic magnetism hots up 01/10/17 10 Welcome to the new-look PhysicsWeb 01/10/16 09 Lasers illuminate the flight of the bumblebee 01/10/11 08 Diamond comes under the microscope 01/10/11 07 Nanotubes win Euro prize 01/10/11 06 Chaotic lasers decode data 01/10/09 05 Nobel Prize for Bose condensates 01/10/05 04 First nanotube circuits get logical 01/10/04 03 Condensate control could lead to 'atom circuits' 01/10/01 02 UK tackles student shortage 01/10/01 01 Heavy water tests body water
01/09/28 15 Collider costs shake CERN 01/09/28 14 City air pollution becomes clear 01/09/27 13 Excitons take charge of optoelectronics 01/09/27 12 Entanglement leaps to larger scales 01/09/25 11 Electron laser packs a punch 01/09/21 10 British firms lag the world in R&D 01/09/21 09 Interference makes super-sensitive ruler 01/09/20 08 Friction riddle is cracked 01/09/13 07 Fusion hitch could help heavy elements 01/09/13 06 Martin Rees wins cosmology prize 01/09/12 05 Laser light diffracts electrons 01/09/07 04 The magnetic attraction of learning 01/09/07 03 Magic layer solves semiconductor snag 01/09/06 02 Experts reject Bush astronomy shake-up 01/09/05 01 X marks the spot for our local black hole
01/08/31 22 Six of the best for gravitational lens 01/08/30 21 Bigger buckyballs bolster superconductivity 01/08/29 20 Quantum entanglement gets a laser-like lift 01/08/23 19 Fragment of ancient asteroid falls to Earth 01/08/23 18 Lasers energise fusion research 01/08/22 17 Silicon LED strides ahead 01/08/22 16 Sir Fred Hoyle 1915 - 2001 01/08/21 15 First hints of novel nuclei 01/08/16 14 New nano-technique hits the bull's-eye 01/08/16 13 Mars-sized object probably created the Moon 01/08/15 12 Ion strings make brilliant beams 01/08/14 11 When is a constant not a constant? 01/08/13 10 Hälg prize rewards neutron scattering in Europe 01/08/10 09 Did interplanetary dust seed life on Earth? 01/08/10 08 Jupiter helps to explain planets around multiple stars 01/08/09 07 First snapshot of superconductor twisters 01/08/08 06 Biophysicist scoops 2001 Dirac medal 01/08/08 05 Counting photons in a flash 01/08/03 04 Helping 'big G' get back on track 01/08/02 03 Condensates create Josephson arrays 01/08/02 02 Can phonons help explain high-temperature superconductivity? 01/08/02 01 Element 118 disappears two years after it was discovered
01/07/27 20 Positive ions pull together 01/07/26 19 Quantum pulses pinpoint position 01/07/25 18 DIAMOND boss appointed 01/07/23 17 Astronomy meets angels in a divine comedy 01/07/20 16 Fluid dynamics slips up 01/07/20 15 Crystals could make super semiconductors 01/07/19 14 Tiny black hole lurks in neighbouring galaxy 01/07/18 13 Bose-Einstein condensation bursts out 01/07/18 12 Latest superconductor has an iron constitution 01/07/13 11 Optical clock is on the dot 01/07/12 10 Superconductivity: boron goes it alone 01/07/11 09 Moon-count rises on Saturn 01/07/11 08 Relativity passes the pulsar test 01/07/11 07 X-rays light up chemical reactions 01/07/06 06 BaBar claims matter-antimatter first 01/07/06 05 Antiproton weighs in 01/07/06 04 High-energy and particle physics win prizes 01/07/06 03 Single electrons flick the switch 01/07/05 02 Atoms perform a quantum flip 01/07/04 01 Nikolai Basov 1922 - 2001
01/06/28 15 Nanotubes are the new superconductors 01/06/26 14 Elastic lava blows its top 01/06/26 13 Physicist mooted as new US science advisor 01/06/25 12 Liquid marbles roll out 01/06/22 11 Nucleus sheds light on neutron stars 01/06/20 10 Finding the formula for freak waves 01/06/18 09 Solar neutrinos change their tune 01/06/15 08 Exotic quasars may be commonplace 01/06/14 07 Single atoms on demand 01/06/13 06 Doctoring the spin on Venus 01/06/12 05 Fibre optics detect drunk drivers 01/06/08 04 Buckyballs bounce back 01/06/07 03 Ultraviolet light to squeeze in the data 01/06/06 02 New X-ray probe lights up the cosmos 01/06/01 01 Nuclear theory gets analytical
01/05/31 16 Optical clocks look up 01/05/31 15 New superconductor gets ready for applications 01/05/24 14 Spintronics turns a corner 01/05/23 13 Lively proteins move and shake 01/05/21 12 Nitrogen tally tests the nebula 01/05/18 11 Comet collapse opens a window on the past 01/05/17 10 Baby star blows a bubble 01/05/16 09 Elastic laser spans the spectrum 01/05/15 08 The magnetic mysteries of atom clusters 01/05/10 07 Carbon clock could show the wrong time 01/05/09 06 Cannibal star ate planet 01/05/09 05 Novel nitrogen is a semiconductor 01/05/04 04 Into the Antiworld 01/05/03 03 Wonder wire puts up no resistance 01/05/02 02 Particle beams that bend like light 01/05/01 01 Early universe comes into focus
01/04/26 12 Nanotube devices in the pipeline 01/04/26 11 Lagging behind the solar cycle 01/04/26 10 Moon illuminates climate study 01/04/19 09 Zooming in on the Eros asteroid 01/04/11 08 New 'light transistor' for optical circuits 01/04/11 07 Plutonium puzzle pieced together 01/04/11 06 Jets on Jupiter: first view of an auroral flare 01/04/11 05 Cracking the Brazil nut problem 01/04/05 04 Magic material flips refractive index 01/04/05 03 Best of PhysicsWeb goes live 01/04/04 02 Internet aids the spread of computer viruses 01/04/04 01 Slingshot test for general relativity
01/03/29 14 Lithography teams up with liquid crystals 01/03/28 13 Single charge raises the current standard 01/03/27 12 Grand challenges for physics in the US 01/03/23 11 Linear collider race gets serious 01/03/22 10 First sighting of dark matter 01/03/21 09 Neutrino messages from across the Universe 01/03/15 08 Deepest ever picture of the universe reveals new quasar 01/03/14 07 Astronomers tune in to brown dwarf 01/03/14 06 X marks the atom 01/03/14 05 Success for Irish physicist 01/03/09 04 Physicists create first superconducting polymer 01/03/08 03 Cosmological model gets a boost 01/03/07 02 LED could signal silicon laser 01/03/02 01 B factories go into overdrive
01/02/28 15 The flood-plains of Ganymede 01/02/26 14 Exciting times for superconductors 01/02/23 13 Busquin calls for EU Framework increase 01/02/21 12 Turbulent times for fluids 01/02/20 11 The hunt for new dimensions 01/02/20 10 Leonard Mandel and Ugo Fano die 01/02/15 09 Beating the femtosecond limit 01/02/15 08 Heat leaves atom clusters cold 01/02/09 07 Muon result could jeopardise Standard Model 01/02/08 06 A new spin on magnets 01/02/07 05 Uranium reveals the age of the universe 01/02/05 04 Neutron flashes may forecast earthquakes 01/02/02 03 Metal superconductors reach new high 01/02/02 02 Chirality crops up in nuclear physics 01/02/01 01 Twisters turn up the current in superconductors
01/01/25 13 Speed skating for water droplets 01/01/25 12 Old riddle illuminates solar system's birth 01/01/24 11 DIY black holes could supply the missing link 01/01/18 10 Night-time on Venus 01/01/18 09 Playing stop and go with light 01/01/18 08 Cell-phone capacity multiplies 01/01/18 07 11 key questions about the universe 01/01/17 06 Physics and the stock market: playing with fire 01/01/12 05 Superconductivity: it's in the genes 01/01/12 04 Going with the flow 01/01/10 03 New light on dark clouds 01/01/10 02 Photonics and particles win 2001 King Faisal prize 01/01/10 01 The Milky Way's last meal
Physics news, 2000 back to mamwad
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00/12/21 09 Highlights of the year 00/12/13 08 Flying the flag for fluid dynamics 00/12/13 07 Star high-school students find pulsar 00/12/11 06 Radiation from mobile phones amplified in human cells 00/12/11 05 UK physics scoops extra money 00/12/07 04 Superconducting tape promises more efficient energy 00/12/07 03 The pulsar's powerhouse 00/12/05 02 Martian sedimentary rocks suggest a watery past 00/12/01 01 Buckyball scores high-temperature goal
00/11/28 14 Green light for nanomotors 00/11/28 13 Louis Néel and Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh 00/11/23 12 Good news for UK physics 00/11/22 11 First light on silicon laser 00/11/22 10 US science awards recognize physics 00/11/22 09 Descartes prize applauds European cooperation 00/11/16 08 Complex fluids go through a strange phase 00/11/16 07 Magnetism's standard model gets a facelift 00/11/09 06 Space to play a starring role in Europe's future 00/11/08 05 End of the line for LEP 00/11/07 04 Vortices get in a spin 00/11/03 03 A celebration of science 00/11/02 02 Supernova link to gamma-ray bursts 00/11/02 01 The great atom race
00/10/31 14 No space like home 00/10/24 13 Physicists discover new kind of radioactivity 00/10/24 12 Southwood named as ESA's new science chief 00/10/20 11 Magnetic media: faster and smaller 00/10/19 10 Clouds gather on Titan 00/10/13 09 Molecular fingerprints in sonoluminescence 00/10/13 08 ESA space missions: the next generation 00/10/11 07 Radiation check for airlines 00/10/10 06 Physicist shares Nobel prize for chemistry 00/10/10 05 Joseph Weber 1919 - 2000 00/10/09 04 Nobel prize goes to semiconductor pioneers 00/10/06 03 Shadow cast on dark matter 00/10/05 02 'Floating planets' challenge theorists 00/10/05 01 Defects boost optical communications
00/09/29 18 Quantum theory beats diffraction limit 00/09/29 17 Astronomers close in on swelling star 00/09/28 16 The physics of human traffic 00/09/22 15 Milky Way's central black hole located 00/09/21 14 CODAG: watching dust gather 00/09/21 13 The bubble bursts for shrimps 00/09/14 12 CERN chases the Higgs 00/09/14 11 Astronomers find middleweight black hole 00/09/13 10 SOLEIL synchrotron for Saclay 00/09/13 09 Superconductivity: getting warmer 00/09/08 08 Ulysses probes the solar maximum 00/09/07 07 Nanoscientists go on a roll 00/09/07 06 Breaking through the quantum limit 00/09/07 05 Sonic crystals make the sound barrier 00/09/07 04 Bad vibrations from acoustic lenses 00/09/07 03 First evidence for the Brain Drain 00/09/05 02 Higgs boson on the horizon 00/09/01 01 Exciting times for heavy nuclei
00/08/24 13 Europa: water, water everywhere 00/08/23 12 Argon makes a cold compound 00/08/17 11 Old galaxies, new problems 00/08/17 10 Sandage and Peebles win cosmology prize 00/08/16 09 Organic superconductivity 00/08/11 08 DNA 'tweezers' take shape 00/08/11 07 Antimatter factory opens at CERN 00/08/09 06 Cluster takes shape 00/08/09 05 Dirac medal goes to particle theorists 00/08/07 04 New planets and star birth in Manchester 00/08/04 03 Abraham Pais dies 00/08/04 02 Promising new materials for better nuclear waste storage 00/08/02 01 Wobbling pulsar discovered
00/07/31 11 Organic laser breakthrough 00/07/26 10 Strength is weakness on the Internet 00/07/25 09 Tau neutrino identified at last 00/07/19 08 Laser smashes light-speed record 00/07/19 07 Microscopy: two lasers are better than one 00/07/19 06 Sir Mark Oliphant dies 00/07/13 05 Nuclei show their soft side 00/07/13 04 Superconducting gains 00/07/12 03 Laser control of X-ray output 00/07/05 02 Schrödinger's cat comes into view 00/07/05 01 £1bn boost for UK science
00/06/29 12 Closing in on gamma-ray bursts 00/06/29 11 Quantum entanglement spreads to Bose condensates 00/06/22 10 Magnets help tell left from right 00/06/22 09 Looking inside quantum dots 00/06/16 08 New materials stretch the imagination 00/06/14 07 RHIC makes its debut 00/06/14 06 Physics, polymers and pesticides 00/06/09 05 Surface features on Europa explained? 00/06/09 04 Nanoplotter draws multiple patterns 00/06/09 03 Imaging antiferromagnets at the atomic scale 00/06/02 02 Physics goes inside the ear 00/06/02 01 Changes at PhysicsWeb
00/05/31 17 Could Maxwell have deciphered quantum mechanics? 00/05/25 16 New insights into surfaces 00/05/25 15 Not all clusters are the same 00/05/24 14 The many shapes of lead-186 00/05/24 13 Phenomenology success for Durham 00/05/19 12 PPARC starts to identify its priorities 00/05/19 11 US astronomers look to the future 00/05/18 10 Single molecules demonstrate resolving power 00/05/18 09 Hendrik Casimir and John Ward 00/05/17 08 How good is physics in the UK? 00/05/12 07 PhysicsWeb editor moves on 00/05/12 06 Data, data everywhere 00/05/12 05 Quantum dots detect single photons 00/05/12 04 Mini Earth created in the lab 00/05/05 03 Turbulence turns elastic 00/05/05 02 'The Quantum Project' hits the Web 00/05/05 01 Heat flow surprise in space
00/04/28 17 Quantum heat flow in the lab 00/04/28 16 Nuclear treaty review starts in New York 00/04/28 15 Carbon-60 and the ultimate switch 00/04/26 14 The universe is flat - official 00/04/20 13 Hubble prepares for the next ten years 00/04/20 12 The physics of a spinning coin 00/04/20 11 Calling all cosmophysicists 00/04/20 10 Boost for particle physics in Canada 00/04/20 09 UK plans to sell off defence research agency 00/04/14 08 Astronomers look to 'virtual' observatories 00/04/14 07 Snooker moves to the atomic scale 00/04/14 06 New evidence for superconducting stripes 00/04/14 05 Hubble sees mystery object 00/04/07 04 Universities receive third funding boost 00/04/07 03 High-speed switching at low voltages 00/04/06 02 Comet Hyakutake makes a mark on Ulysses 00/04/06 01 Quantum computers think big
00/03/31 20 Polymer outshines other mirrors 00/03/29 19 The hard X-ray background comes into view 00/03/29 18 Double first for superfluids 00/03/29 17 New research minister in France 00/03/24 16 New tools for X-rays 00/03/24 15 Physicists invent 'left-handed' material 00/03/22 14 Magnetism researchers win Agilent prize 00/03/22 13 Space-based telescope will look for Earth-like planets 00/03/22 12 New head for ESRF 00/03/17 11 How to keep your optical fibres clear and dry 00/03/17 10 Physics get physical 00/03/17 09 Quantum leap for entanglement 00/03/13 08 New synchrotron will be built at Rutherford 00/03/10 07 ESA gets flexible 00/03/10 06 Astronomers check out the far side of the Sun 00/03/03 05 New technique promises cheaper photonic crystals 00/03/03 04 Fractional effects in nanotubes explained 00/03/03 03 Burning mystery remains 00/03/01 02 World order upset by new citation study 00/03/01 01 The music of earthquakes
00/02/25 16 Dark matter claim meets resistance 00/02/25 15 Physics in a bubble 00/02/25 14 Magnetic microchips to process information 00/02/23 13 New phase for quantum computers 00/02/18 12 Atom opticians think small 00/02/18 11 Climate discrepancy solved 00/02/18 10 Black holes 'mimic' the Sun 00/02/18 09 New light on organic LEDs 00/02/11 08 Conductivity measurements made on a single strand of DNA 00/02/11 07 Molecules made in a Bose-Einstein Condensate 00/02/11 06 Life, longevity, and a $6000 bet 00/02/10 05 X-ray telescope burns-up 00/02/10 04 CERN claims quark-gluon first 00/02/04 03 New light on ball lightning 00/02/04 02 Physics and life in a cold climate 00/02/02 01 Quantum theory survives three-photon test
00/01/28 14 Nanotubes get smaller 00/01/28 13 Literate physicist gets taste for fiction 00/01/26 12 Clinton backs science 00/01/26 11 Hubble back in business 00/01/21 10 Neutrino pioneers win Wolf prize 00/01/21 09 Polymer lasers without mirrors 00/01/19 08 Overlooking female innovation in science 00/01/19 07 Measuring decoherence in real time 00/01/14 06 'Naked' black holes seen 00/01/14 05 Physicist queries test-ban evidence to US Senate 00/01/14 04 Asteroid threat over estimated 00/01/07 03 Solitons formed in Bose-Einstein Condensate 00/01/07 02 NAUTILUS detects cosmic rays 00/01/07 01 Adaptive-optics to cover the sky