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News: April 2010
Model gives insight into HIV vaccines
Apr 30, 2010
Virus mutation and response takes the random walk
Melting ice amplifies Arctic warming
Apr 29, 2010 15 comments
Re-analysis links disappearing sea ice with strong Arctic temperature rise
Antarctic conveyor belt revealed in detail
Apr 28, 2010 9 comments
Researchers track Antarctic Bottom Water as it speeds northwards
Nanotube 'fuzz' boosts optical performance
Apr 28, 2010 3 comments
Carbon and gold join forces in photonic metamaterial
Evidence grows for tetraquarks
Apr 27, 2010 42 comments
Re-analysis of 2008 experiment points to four-quark particles
Site chosen for European superscope
Apr 27, 2010 2 comments
€1bn facility will be built in Cerro Armazones, Chile
Volcanic hazards could become fiercer and more frequent
Apr 23, 2010 15 comments
Melting ice could increase volcanic activity in the 21st century, warn geologists
Scanning probe makes 'nano Matterhorn'
Apr 23, 2010 4 comments
New lithography technique could lead to smaller circuits
Ancient Romans join neutrino hunt
Apr 23, 2010 7 comments
Lead from a sunken Roman ship will shield nuclear physics experiment
First stunning images from NASA's Sun gazer
Apr 22, 2010 7 comments
Solar Dynamics Observatory reveals Sun's surface in multicolour
Dwarf planets are not space potatoes
Apr 20, 2010 5 comments
A lower limit on the size of dwarf planets
Physicists find a particle accelerator in the sky
Apr 19, 2010 7 comments
Radio waves suggest lightning 'sprites' create powerful electron beams
Where has all the heat gone?
Apr 16, 2010 25 comments
Climate scientists ponder Earth’s missing energy
Obama sets out Mars mission
Apr 16, 2010 8 comments
US president calls for NASA to send a manned mission to orbit the red planet
Astronomers develop new planet-hunting tool
Apr 15, 2010 4 comments
Novel technique could let smaller telescopes find extrasolar planets
Randomness is no lottery thanks to entangled ions
Apr 14, 2010 4 comments
Number sequences guaranteed random by quantum mechanics
Sun blamed for Europe’s colder winters
Apr 14, 2010 24 comments
Study finds strong link between solar output and winter temperatures
BEC coupled to mechanical oscillator
Apr 13, 2010
Ultracold gas offers new way of probing tiny vibrations
Strange quark weighs in
Apr 9, 2010 6 comments
Researchers get best ever estimate for the mass of a strange quark
New element 117 discovered
Apr 10, 2010 8 comments
Progress on route to the superheavy island of stability
Black hole twins spew gravitational waves
Apr 11, 2010 13 comments
Stars less metallic than we thought
Argonne lab tackles exotic nuclei
Apr 9, 2010 1 comment
First results obtained from new Helical Orbit Spectrometer
Carbon sheets offer cool solution for computers
Apr 8, 2010
Graphene could conduct waste heat from computer chips more than twice as fast as copper
Ice mission blasts off
Apr 8, 2010
The European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 satellite will monitor changes in Earth's ice thicknesses
Iconic Japanese antenna shrunk to the nano-scale
Apr 8, 2010 2 comments
Yagi-Uda antenna adapted for nanotechnology
New twist to electron beams
Apr 3, 2010 6 comments
Spiral wavefronts could improve electron microscopes
Tiny water desalination device could help aid efforts
Apr 5, 2010 5 comments
New technique to create drinking water from seawater
