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News: July 2008
Simulation points to lightweight first stars
Jul 31, 2008 2 comments
First protostars could have been just a hundredth the mass of our Sun
Plasmons put laser light on the straight and narrow
Jul 31, 2008
Tiny collimator reduces divergence of light from semiconductor lasers
Will first LHC protons be injected within a fortnight?
Jul 30, 2008 27 comments
Proton beams will be running round the whole ring by first half of September, says CERN spokesperson
Laser beams are entangled in space
Jul 29, 2008 2 comments
Breakthrough could allow optical measurements to beat the 'diffraction limit'
Superfluids point to the origin of 'monster' ocean waves
Jul 25, 2008 4 comments
Researchers say wave energy can cascade towards long wavelengths
Themis reveals the secret of Earth's auroras
Jul 25, 2008 3 comments
Magnetic field 'reconnection' transfers solar energy towards Earth, say researchers
Liquid mirror shows promise for adaptive optics
Jul 24, 2008 3 comments
Device is controlled by an array of magnetic coils
Moving to the music
Jul 24, 2008 6 comments
Doppler effect can make happy music sound sad, says physicist
Bubble-fusion scientist to appeal over misconduct charge
Jul 23, 2008 24 comments
Rusi Taleyarkhan plans to fight back against findings of Purdue University investigation
Motion of exploding stars could shed light on dark energy
Jul 24, 2008 3 comments
Cosmologists call for decades-long survey of type-Ia supernovae
Nanotube cantilever weighs up
Jul 21, 2008
'Double-walled' nanotube measures mass of single gold atom
Football fans cheer to the science of solitons
Jul 18, 2008 2 comments
Experiment kicks-off on the bicentenary of the Netherlands's Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences
Graphene has record-breaking strength
Jul 17, 2008 10 comments
Stiffness of the material is 'off the chart'
Pumped atom laser brings high-precision measurements in sight
Jul 17, 2008
Technique uses a second atomic condensate to feed the laser
Electron microscope sees single hydrogen atoms
Jul 16, 2008 4 comments
Placing samples on graphene substrate allows light atoms such as hydrogen to be observed
BaBar gets to the bottom of bottomonia
Jul 16, 2008
First measurement of ground state could improve our understanding of the early universe
'Anaconda' could be the best way to harness wave power
Jul 15, 2008 4 comments
Huge rubber tube will be cheap and almost maintenance free, say researchers
Japanese particle-physics leader dies
Jul 11, 2008
Yoji Totsuka, former head of the KEK high-energy physics lab, dies at 66
Thin-film dyes boost solar cells
Jul 12, 2008
Concentrators increase solar cells' power output by an order of magnitude
Quote me fairly, I'm a scientist!
Jul 10, 2008 5 comments
Survey indicates that scientists get along with the media better than they thought
Fitting food for physics
Jul 10, 2008 2 comments
Social physicists try to understand why national dishes endure
Method could cut number of vaccinations by half
Jul 9, 2008
Scientists devise new strategy to improve efficiency of immunization
Do cosmic rays get bogged down in the cosmos?
Jul 8, 2008 3 comments
Pierre Auger and HiRes observatories confirm rapid drop-off in number of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays reaching Earth
Nuclear fallout used to spot fake art
Jul 4, 2008
New technique identifies unnatural isotopes in post-war forgeries
Voyager 2 reports from the edge of the solar system
Jul 4, 2008 5 comments
NASA mission confirms that the solar system is “squashed” by interstellar space
US presidential candidates receive questions on science
Jul 3, 2008 3 comments
ScienceDebate organizers hope questions will prompt a national science debate
33 years later, NASA finds Mercury to be even more active
Jul 3, 2008
Messenger's first flyby answers some questions raised by Mariner 10
Seeking an African Einstein
Jul 2, 2008 3 comments
New centre for maths and computer science opens in Nigeria as part of plan to find the "next Einstein" in Africa
Survey of distant galaxies sets limit on cosmic strings
Jul 2, 2008
Gravitational lensing measurement suggets that cosmic strings make up no more than 2% of mass of universe
Lay-offs at Fermilab set to be reversed
Jul 1, 2008
Bush signs spending bill that includes emergency support for physics
