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News: March 2009

Seeing inside living bodies with nanoparticles

Mar 31, 2009

New imaging technique yields 3D, real-time footage

World’s biggest laser powers up

Mar 31, 2009 9 comments

Fusion facility completed in California

Flu fighters use the Web to track virus

Mar 30, 2009

Project aims to pin down the spread of flu

New technique boosts NMR sensitivity 1000-fold

Mar 27, 2009 1 comment

Spin-transfer using "hyperpolarization" could lead to faster, more precise MRI scans

China experiments with solar-thermal power

Mar 26, 2009 1 comment

1.5 MW facility will be built outside Beijing

Dangled DNA reads genetic code

Mar 26, 2009 2 comments

Identifying DNA using a scanning tunnelling microscope

Do cosmic rays destroy the ozone layer?

Mar 26, 2009 1 comment

New data support alternative process, says physicist

Graphene works as a frequency multiplier

Mar 25, 2009 3 comments

Wonder material could give high-speed electronics a boost

Nanotubes flex their muscles

Mar 24, 2009 1 comment

Artificial muscle pulled from CNT array

US energy boss reveals $1.2bn spending plans

Mar 24, 2009 3 comments

Steven Chu names national labs and clean energy as big winners of stimulus package

Technique to mass produce metamaterials

Mar 20, 2009

Silver nanowires negatively refract visible light

Seeing chemicals at the nanoscale

Mar 19, 2009

Synchrotron radiation and microscopy combine to reveal chemical identities

Gravity probe blasts off

Mar 17, 2009 2 comments

€350m craft to provide high-resolution map of Earth’s gravitational field

Physicist bags Templeton prize

Mar 16, 2009 4 comments

Bernard d’Espagnat awarded for his work on the foundation of quantum mechanics

TEAM sees crystals smaller and clearer

Mar 13, 2009

Berkeley researchers revamp their transmission electron microscope

Battery charges in a hurry

Mar 12, 2009 2 comments

New battery could speed up hybrid cars

Quantum friction: does it exist after all?

Mar 17, 2009 6 comments

New calculations suggest no lateral force between moving plates in a vacuum

US pays price for $500m budget blunder

Mar 12, 2009 8 comments

Carbon-capture demonstration plant was cancelled due to miscalculation

Molecular junctions make a switch

Mar 11, 2009 2 comments

Study sheds light on tunnelling

Double graphene coat is slippery stuff

Mar 10, 2009

Two layers of carbon atoms could reduce wear and tear in tiny machines

Top result for Tevatron

Mar 6, 2009 2 comments

Sightings of singly produced top quarks will help in the hunt for the Higgs boson

Kepler mission set for blast-off

Mar 6, 2009 3 comments

$590m craft targets 100,000 stars in search for Earth-like planets

Supernovae recorded in the Antarctic ice

Mar 6, 2009 1 comment

Nitrate levels in ice holds information about historic astronomical events

NASA missions: late and expensive

Mar 5, 2009 1 comment

Report finds bulk of projects delayed or over budget

Lasers take a measure of halo nucleus

Mar 9, 2009 2 comments

Frequency-comb and clever calculations pin down nuclear radius

CERN hold-up hurts graduate students

Mar 5, 2009 3 comments

Delayed LHC leaves some students without data for theses

Power source from human vibrations

Mar 4, 2009

Energy “harvesting” from the body could power new types of medical sensor

Nanotubes wreak havoc with heat

Mar 2, 2009

Electrons flowing in 1D structures dissipate energy in strange ways