News: November 2010
Fear rises among Iranian physicists
Nov 30, 2010 2 comments
Assassination of a nuclear scientist leaves academics in shock
New particle links dark matter with missing antimatter
Nov 29, 2010 26 comments
Two mysteries could be solved by one particle
Guest molecule builds 3D nanostructures
Nov 26, 2010 1 comment
New self-assembly technique could lead to molecular computers
Graphene supercapacitor breaks storage record
Nov 26, 2010 12 comments
New technology could recharge mobile phones and digital cameras
Galaxies pin down dark energy
Nov 25, 2010 23 comments
Observations support idea that vacuum is pulling universe apart
Bosons bossed into Bose–Einstein condensate
Nov 24, 2010 26 comments
Physicists create the first ever BEC from light
Neutrinos could detect secret fission reactors
Nov 24, 2010 2 comments
Detectors would need to be hundreds of thousands of tonnes
Europe extends key space missions
Nov 23, 2010
Seven ESA probes will now operate until at least 2014
Plasmonic sensor detects viruses
Nov 22, 2010 1 comment
New technique could identify infectious diseases early on
Beetle beauty captured in silicon
Nov 20, 2010 10 comments
Iridescent material could be used to create smart windows
Penrose claims to have glimpsed universe before Big Bang
Nov 19, 2010 48 comments
University of Oxford theorist points to evidence in cosmic microwave background
Information converted to energy
Nov 19, 2010 37 comments
Potential of tiny bead boosted by data input
Antihydrogen trapped at CERN
Nov 17, 2010 32 comments
Physicists hold 38 antimatter atoms for almost a fifth of a second
Optical transistor in silicon is a first
Nov 17, 2010 8 comments
Tiny disc enables one laser to control the propagation of another
Tests begin on the body of Tycho Brahe
Nov 16, 2010
Exhumed corpse of the founder of modern observational astronomy back in Danish lab
Space probe brings asteroid dust back to Earth
Nov 16, 2010 3 comments
Japan's Hayabusa mission collects 1500 grains from asteroid Itokawa
Space–time invisibility cloak could 'edit history'
Nov 16, 2010 11 comments
Device would enable object to move while appearing to stay still
Giant Faraday rotation spotted in graphene
Nov 15, 2010 11 comments
Another surprise from the carbon sheet
US loses status as a 'colossus of science'
Nov 12, 2010 7 comments
Report says countries in Asia are beginning to equal the US
'Super-twisted' light swirls into view
Nov 12, 2010 8 comments
Highly polarized light could be used to study biological molecules
Honeycomb windows that could harvest the Sun
Nov 11, 2010 3 comments
Polymers and fullerenes combine to generate photocurrents
Hubble successor hit by budget setback
Nov 11, 2010 1 comment
James Webb Space Telescope will cost $1.5bn more and be delayed by 14 months
Nanoribbons make good memories
Nov 9, 2010 8 comments
New graphene memory cell could help preserve Moore's law
LHC now fully fledged heavy metal collider
Nov 8, 2010 13 comments
First collisions between lead ions just four days after the protons stopped
Listening to the sounds of slippery slopes
Nov 5, 2010 1 comment
Acoustic emission technique for landslide early warning system
Neutral positronium scatters like a charged particle
Nov 5, 2010 22 comments
Surprising observation baffles physicists
Flexible metamaterial springs to life
Nov 4, 2010 1 comment
New material could be used in tiny 'invisibility cloaks'
Obama's dream of Mars at risk from radiation
Nov 4, 2010 15 comments
A peak in solar activity could coincide with planned missions
LHC gears up to create mini big bangs
Nov 4, 2010 6 comments
The ALICE experiment should have its lead collisions by the weekend
Star Wars 'telepresence' tantalisingly close
Nov 3, 2010 2 comments
Holography delivers real-time images of remote events
Do giant spiral galaxies thwart clusters of young stars?
Nov 2, 2010 1 comment
Simple physics could explain long-standing paradox