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News: June 2008
Gamma-rays put limit on universe’s background light
Jun 26, 2008 6 comments
Radiation from distant quasar travels relatively unhindered to Earth
Glass arrested on the road to crystallization
Jun 26, 2008 4 comments
Experiments on colloidal gels shed light on how glass is formed
Rising cost of oil 'due to speculation'
Jun 24, 2008 12 comments
Statistical physics-based study implies growing demand cannot account entirely for trend
Table-top experiment could explain why continents drift
Jun 24, 2008
Interactions between convection cells and solid objects provide insight into how 'supercontinents' form and then break apart
CERN hopes LHC report will dispel doomsday fears
Jun 23, 2008 15 comments
New report reinforces earlier conclusion that there is no cause for concern from strangelets or black holes
'Excitonic integrated circuit' is a first
Jun 19, 2008 1 comment
Device used excitons to switch beams of light
Combination technique shows the strain
Jun 19, 2008 1 comment
Moiré technique and electron holography combined to give 2D strain map
No extra cash for UK physics
Jun 18, 2008
Suggestion that £80m was 'cut' from budget is 'simply wrong', says government
NMR sheds new light on protein interactions
Jun 17, 2008 1 comment
Free proteins change shape prior to binding, say biophysicists
Disorder puts the brakes on matter waves
Jun 16, 2008
Independent groups see 'Anderson localization' in ultracold gases
'Plutoids': the new name for Pluto-like dwarf planets
Jun 12, 2008 8 comments
IAU decides on sub-classification that will include larger sibling Eris
GLAST blasts off in search of gamma rays
Jun 11, 2008 13 comments
Space telescope could soon shed light on some of the most violent astrophysical processes in the universe
DAFNE enjoys a particle boost
Jun 11, 2008 2 comments
Upgrade is proving to be a success, and will lead to 'new physics'
Fastest supercomputer overtaken by Roadrunner
Jun 9, 2008 4 comments
US machine will be used initially to model cosmology, astrophysics and the climate
What's your Wu index?
Jun 5, 2008 3 comments
New measure aims to improve how scientists are ranked according to their publication record
Multi-particle entanglement in solid is a first
Jun 5, 2008 3 comments
Three diamond nuclei are entangled by international team
Electrical noise measures Boltzmann constant
Jun 4, 2008 1 comment
Measurement could help to redefine the Kelvin unit of temperature
Extreme UV light made easy
Jun 4, 2008 1 comment
Breakthrough could lead to the first 'tabletop' EUV source
