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News: December 2008
Obama nominates physicist as science advisor
Dec 22, 2008 6 comments
'Science holds the key to our survival' says incoming US president
Random motion of bacteria could drive micromotors
Dec 18, 2008 1 comment
Tiny organisms could spin a rotor, say physicists
Top UK physics departments tumble in new assessment
Dec 18, 2008 6 comments
Oxford, Imperial and Southampton fall in physics rankings
Experiment verifies Nobel-winning theory
Dec 17, 2008 1 comment
Physicists take important step towards “quantum state engineering”
'Uncontrollable' nuclei sharpen up MRI
Dec 15, 2008
The solution to a theoretical puzzle could provide the basis for improved MRI techniques.
Michigan State will host rare isotope facility
Dec 12, 2008
New lab will benefit about 1000 researchers
Spinning drops could model black holes
Dec 11, 2008 1 comment
Water droplets take on strange shapes when levitated and spun
Nobel laureate goes to Washington?
Dec 11, 2008 6 comments
Steven Chu tipped to head US Department of Energy
Europe plans future research facilities
Dec 9, 2008 1 comment
New roadmap focuses on environmental sciences
LHC will restart end of June 2009
Dec 5, 2008 11 comments
Beams not likely to reach full energy until 2010
Lamb shift spotted in solid qubit
Dec 5, 2008 1 comment
Discovery could help physicists design more robust quantum computers
'Echoes' shine a light on Tycho Brahe's supernova
Dec 3, 2008 1 comment
New light from old supernova tells us how it exploded
Superconductor switches on and off
Dec 3, 2008 3 comments
Discovery could lead to faster and more efficient transistors
New thermometer could help redefine temperature
Dec 2, 2008 1 comment
Tunnel junction relates Kelvin degrees to Boltzmann constant
Is a new force at work in the dark sector?
Dec 1, 2008 8 comments
New theory tries to explain latest dark-matter search results
