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News: December 2009
2009 in pictures
Dec 21, 2009 4 comments
People and research that have helped shape the year in physics
Top 10 books for 2009
Dec 21, 2009 6 comments
Physics World unveils its choices for top physics books of the year
What's in store in 2010?
Dec 21, 2009 3 comments
From new data at the Large Hadron Collider to deep research budget cuts in the UK and Japan, 2010 could be both the best and worst of times
CDMS gives possible evidence for dark matter
Dec 18, 2009 9 comments
Two 'events' silence the rumour mill
Evanescent waves bring new window into the nanoworld
Dec 20, 2009 3 comments
Electrons and light team up in new microscopy technique to image nanostructures
Breakthrough of the year
Dec 21, 2009 4 comments
NIST researchers demonstrate sustained quantum computing in trapped ions
'Electroweak' stars predicted
Dec 18, 2009 6 comments
New kind of star would burn quarks and generate neutrinos
Paper battery could boost energy storage
Dec 17, 2009 1 comment
Nanotube-coated paper could enhance batteries and supercapacitors
Atomic spins measure ultracold temperatures
Dec 17, 2009
New thermometer could work down to a few trillionths of a Kelvin
Storing carbon dioxide in water cages
Dec 17, 2009 2 comments
Synchrotron shines a light on hydrate formation
UK physics hit by savage cuts
Dec 16, 2009 10 comments
Funding council announces UK withdrawal from over 25 international projects
Slowed light breaks record
Dec 15, 2009 11 comments
Light stored for over a second in an ultracold cloud of sodium atoms
NASA launches sky surveyor
Dec 14, 2009 1 comment
WISE will search for cool stars and study the structure of nearby galaxies
Solar cell grabs hot electrons
Dec 14, 2009 3 comments
Ultrathin photovoltaic device extracts more energy per photon
UK physicists prepare for “deep” budget cuts
Dec 11, 2009 6 comments
Researchers express concern to the UK's science minister over funding council's budget deficit
Higgs could reveal itself in dark-matter collisions
Dec 10, 2009 3 comments
Searching for the Higgs? Forget the LHC and look to space
Video imaging brings liquid friction into focus
Dec 10, 2009 3 comments
Researchers study interplay between oil droplets and gravity
'Quantum trampoline' measures gravity
Dec 9, 2009 4 comments
Bouncing rubidium atoms give precise value for acceleration due to gravity
Earth's response to CO₂ underestimated
Dec 9, 2009 16 comments
Ice sheets and other slow systems could intensify long-term warming
Attacking tumours with tiny discs
Dec 7, 2009 1 comment
Triggering the death of cancer cells with magnetic vortices
Fish swishing mixes the oceans
Dec 4, 2009
Mathematicians enter the debate on whether marine swimmers stir the seas
Budget deficit threatens Japanese science
Dec 3, 2009 25 comments
Scientists braced for severe cuts to the country’s research programme
Are quasars star-making machines?
Dec 3, 2009 8 comments
Supermassive black holes might help, and hinder, the star-making process
Lasers simulate magnetic field in a BEC
Dec 2, 2009 2 comments
Vector potential puts ultracold atoms in a spin
