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News: November 2009
Quark-like confinement seen in the lab
Nov 30, 2009 16 comments
Spinons in a solid behave like quarks
Physical forces at work in biocomposites
Nov 27, 2009
Study reveals how single crystals incorporate polymer strands
Snail shell spiral switched
Nov 26, 2009 3 comments
Biophysicists change the chirality in developing snail embryos
Plasmas have healing powers
Nov 26, 2009 6 comments
Low-temperature ions can sterilize hands and wounds
Spins spotted in room-temperature silicon
Nov 26, 2009 1 comment
Physicists pass important milestone in spintronics
Skin cells ruffle to heal open wounds
Nov 25, 2009
Novel microscopy technique captures migrating skin cells
First neutrinos for Japanese lab
Nov 24, 2009 1 comment
Tokai-to-Kamioka experiment will study neutrino oscillations
Fish inspire wind farm configuration
Nov 23, 2009 6 comments
Calculations show how a turbine can benefit from the wakes of its neighbours
Nanoparticles sink or swim in sewage
Nov 20, 2009
Neutron scattering could help make wastewater nanoparticle free
Binary systems share stardust
Nov 19, 2009 2 comments
Rare glimpse of planet formation in binary star system
UK to pull out of Gemini Observatory
Nov 19, 2009 3 comments
Funding is 'almost certain' to stop after 2012
Photo finish in race for strontium condensate
Nov 18, 2009 1 comment
Isotope’s scattering length is ‘just right’
Holes block light in very thin films
Nov 17, 2009 3 comments
Another strange twist found in the physics of holey materials
Quantum processor executes 160 different operations
Nov 16, 2009 3 comments
Pair of trapped ions is first 'universal' quantum computer
Scientists spy on the first stages of crystal growth
Nov 13, 2009
Beginnings of crystallization observed for the first time
Distant stars shed light on the solar cycle
Nov 12, 2009 208 comments
Are sustained solar minima the norm?
Isotope study puts a chill on ancient oceans
Nov 11, 2009
Early life may have formed in seas cooler than previously thought
APS rejects plea to alter stance on climate change
Nov 11, 2009 66 comments
American Physical Society maintains view that human activities are causing global warming
X-ray diffraction microscopy peers into tiny cells
Nov 10, 2009 3 comments
'Plunge-freezing' living cells could improve 3D imaging
Laser creates record-breaking protons
Nov 9, 2009 14 comments
High-energy protons could yield compact source for cancer therapy
Vitaly Ginzburg: 1916–2009
Nov 9, 2009 3 comments
Eminent Nobel-prize-winning Russian theorist dies on 8 November aged 93
'Universal' equation describes how materials behave at nanoscale
Nov 5, 2009 2 comments
'No supercomputers involved', says physicist
Fundamental physics enters war on cancer
Nov 5, 2009 4 comments
A dozen new US research centres receive cash to apply physics to oncology
High-temperature superconductor goes super thin
Nov 2, 2009 4 comments
Experimentalists start to hone in on puzzling phenomenon
