News: September 2007
Microchip ‘bus’ links up quantum bits
Sep 27, 2007
Devices bring quantum computing on a chip one step closer
NASA’s Dawn rises with the Sun
Sep 27, 2007 1 comment
Probe will investigate bodies in the main asteroid belt
Wolfgang Panofsky: 1919-2007
Sep 27, 2007 1 comment
Particle physicist and SLAC founding director dies
Gas-giant chaos will remain a mystery for now
Sep 24, 2007 5 comments
Current observations not good enough to predict future orbits
Physicists discover new layer in Earth’s mantle
Sep 20, 2007
Layer marks the transition of spin states in iron
Single-photon microwave source fits on a chip
Sep 20, 2007 1 comment
Device brings quantum communication one step closer
Selene blasts off for the Moon
Sep 14, 2007
Japan’s spacecraft will look into the moon’s origin and evolution
Stringy ‘filaments’ could have produced first stars
Sep 13, 2007
“Warm” dark matter gives a very different early universe formation
Matter-antimatter molecule makes its debut
Sep 12, 2007
Discovery could lead to "annihilation gamma-ray laser"
Thundercloud "accelerator" fires gamma-ray beam
Sep 11, 2007 2 comments
40-second pulse seen over the Sea of Japan
Lensless X-ray microscope fits in the lab
Sep 11, 2007
“High-harmonic generation” makes small lasers suitable
Ideal materials make for perfect invisibility
Sep 7, 2007
Slightest fault causes “significant” light scattering
Single-atom entanglement goes further
Sep 6, 2007 1 comment
Entanglement over one metre could make quantum networks feasible
Sound causes colossal drop in resistance
Sep 7, 2007
Laser technique avoids "chicken and egg" problem
Dinosaur extinction linked to colliding asteroids
Sep 5, 2007
Computer models track fragments to Earth