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News: August 2008
Obama takes a stand on science
Sep 1, 2008 1 comment
More research funding and 'restored science integrity', says US presidential candidate
Bubble-fusion researcher loses professorship
Aug 28, 2008 10 comments
Purdue's Rusi Taleyarkhan says penalty is 'unfair and egregious'
Memory device could store data using heat
Aug 29, 2008 2 comments
Researchers develop a way of storing and reading information with phonons
Gamma-ray telescope renamed after Fermi
Aug 27, 2008
NASA mission begins mapping cosmic gamma-ray sources
Quantum repeater demonstrated
Aug 27, 2008 3 comments
Principle could be extended to open-up global quantum communication
Cold atoms explode like cloverleafs
Aug 27, 2008 4 comments
Spectacular exploding 'bosenovas' seen in clouds of chromium atoms
Bush honours US atomic physicist
Aug 26, 2008 1 comment
David Wineland wins US National Medal of Science
Spin-flip speed is pushed to the limit
Aug 21, 2008 3 comments
Physicists discover a faster way to store data using spin-polarized electrons
Do citations take the shine off the Nobel prize?
Aug 21, 2008 10 comments
The path to Stockholm is not as clear as it once was, researchers claim
Massive young stars defy tidal forces
Aug 21, 2008 34 comments
Simulations shed light on star formation near black holes
Spinning electrons make for an unconventional metal
Aug 20, 2008 15 comments
Simple exception to Landau-Fermi liquid could provide new route to spintronics
Entanglement remains a mystery
Aug 13, 2008 38 comments
Swiss experiment implies information would have to travel thousands of times faster than light to explain quantum entanglement
Camera captures at record rate
Aug 12, 2008 4 comments
Researchers unveil system with “unprecedented” image quality, frame rate and frame count
LHC sees first protons
Aug 11, 2008 62 comments
World’s most powerful particle collider passes major milestone towards September switch-on
The most direct signal of dark energy?
Aug 8, 2008 12 comments
A recent analysis of the so-called Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect could help physicists to understand the mysterious entity
Carbon nanotubes, but without the 'nano'
Aug 8, 2008 6 comments
New structures are 30 times stronger than Kevlar, say researchers
CERN points to early September start-up date for LHC
Aug 7, 2008 11 comments
First attempt to circulate proton beams at Large Hadron Collider to be made in just over a month
Stretching the boundaries of electronics
Aug 7, 2008 1 comment
Material can be stretched by up to 70% and is still electrically conductive
Dark-matter simulation reveals lumpy haloes
Aug 6, 2008 1 comment
Researchers say simulation is the most detailed yet
Chinese particle collider turns up the charm
Aug 6, 2008 6 comments
Hundred-fold increase in electron-positron collision rate expected at Beijing facility
Tiny microscope aims for Third World market
Aug 5, 2008
Device is the size of a penny and could be manufactured for as little as £5
Ballistic breakthrough could lead to molecular logic gates
Aug 2, 2008 2 comments
Electrons travel with ease between benzene and platinum
Cold atoms could help build 'spintronics' transistor
Aug 1, 2008
Analogue "may help understand problems in real systems"
