News: March 2010
Spin-squeezed atoms boost interferometry
Apr 1, 2010 3 comments
Entangled atoms beat classical limit
Graphene photodetector is a first
Apr 1, 2010 3 comments
IBM team makes ultrafast device from 'wonder material'
UK synchrotron secures £110 m upgrade
Mar 31, 2010 1 comment
Diamond light source to build 10 new experimental beamlines
Spin-out puts new spin on wind energy
Mar 30, 2010 19 comments
Undersea balloons could store energy from huge turbines
CERN achieves 7 TeV collisions at Large Hadron Collider
Mar 30, 2010 29 comments
Celebrations as collider passes major milestone
Graphene-oxide framework packs in hydrogen
Mar 26, 2010 4 comments
New material could be used for gas storage
Locks and keys build tiny structures
Mar 25, 2010 2 comments
Flexible bonds could be used in 'nanomachines'
UK launches space agency
Mar 23, 2010 6 comments
Science minister Paul Drayson says that the space industry could be worth £40bn and create 100,000 jobs in 20 years' time
LHC physics programme set to launch 30 March
Mar 23, 2010 13 comments
First collisions at 7 TeV in the Large Hadron Collider
Spiders' super-strong silk relies on its crystals
Mar 23, 2010 6 comments
Findings could lead to arachnid-inspired materials
3D invisibility cloak unveiled
Mar 19, 2010 1 comment
Researchers hide a tiny bump from near-infrared light
'Standard candle' flickers too brightly
Mar 19, 2010 8 comments
Researchers identify a potential flaw in the evidence for dark energy
Quantum effect spotted in a visible object
Mar 18, 2010 20 comments
An important step towards testing Schrödinger's cat paradox
A radon detector for earthquake prediction
Mar 18, 2010 5 comments
Nobel laureate adapts his famous detector design for earthquake science
Top South African astronomer reinstated
Mar 17, 2010 2 comments
Phil Charles cleared of sharing astronomy plans with fellow scientists
Trapped ions go for a quantum walk
Mar 16, 2010 2 comments
Longest quantum walk to date could lead to computing applications
Mysterious 'dark flow' at the edge of the universe
Mar 15, 2010 15 comments
Could one of the universe's siblings be tugging at its sleeves?
Enter the 'thermopower wave'
Mar 14, 2010 3 comments
New way of generating electricity could lead to batteries to power nanotechnology
Borexino bags geoneutrinos
Mar 12, 2010 6 comments
Neutrinos produced within Earth are detected in underground lab
Concerns raised over Institute of Physics climate submission
Mar 11, 2010 145 comments
Institute faces criticism over its evidence to UK parliamentary inquiry on climate change
Electrical signals transmitted via spin waves
Mar 12, 2010 1 comment
Insulator-based 'spin wiring' could boost spintronics
UK science risks relegation, warns Royal Society
Mar 9, 2010 4 comments
"Decades of slow economic decline" predicted unless investment in science increases
Earth's magnetic field older than we thought
Mar 9, 2010 5 comments
But it offered little defence against a young, aggressive Sun
Superconductors could simulate the brain
Mar 5, 2010 3 comments
Josephson junctions would allow rapid simulation of brain functions
UK physicists welcome research council reforms
Mar 4, 2010 2 comments
Science minister Lord Drayson announces changes to the Science and Technology Facilities Council
Avalanche photodetector breaks speed record
Mar 4, 2010 1 comment
New design could lead to optical computers
Junctionless transistor makes its debut
Mar 1, 2010 16 comments
First proposed in 1925, device could revolutionize electronics