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News: January 2011
Tiny water hammers bash blades
Jan 28, 2011 5 comments
Researchers investigate how water droplets bring inefficiency to turbines
Physicists create 'backward laser'
Jan 27, 2011 3 comments
Device could monitor pollutants and explosives, say researchers
Strain and spin could drive ultralow energy computers
Jan 27, 2011 5 comments
Nanomagnet circuits could be used in implantable medical devices
Nanoparticles boost thermoelectric efficiency
Jan 26, 2011 2 comments
New nanocomposite material could recover energy from car exhausts
Holographic video comes up to speed
Jan 25, 2011 8 comments
The highest frame rate yet for dynamic holograms
Physicists assemble spin ensemble
Jan 24, 2011 3 comments
Dream of silicon-based quantum computing one step closer
Physicists craft Luneburg lens from silicon
Jan 22, 2011
New device could benefit optical communications
Sun provides Earth with less energy than we thought
Jan 21, 2011 17 comments
But the implication for Earth's climate is far from clear-cut
Water isomers separated by spin
Jan 20, 2011 2 comments
New technique could lead to ultra-sensitive NMR
Single molecules probe tiny hotspots
Jan 20, 2011 5 comments
Super-resolution microscope sees structures as small as 15 nm
US university settles religious discrimination case
Jan 19, 2011 33 comments
Astrophysicist Martin Gaskell paid $125,000 in out-of-court settlement
Cylinders of silence cloak in 2D
Jan 18, 2011 1 comment
New acoustic metamaterial could hide objects from sonar
Life's asymmetry may come from space
Jan 14, 2011 19 comments
Experiments show how the 'handedness' of biology could have astrophysical origins
Heat engine may be world's smallest
Jan 16, 2011 4 comments
Device made from piezoresistive silicon could form tiny watch mechanism
Tevatron still churning out exciting physics
Jan 13, 2011 37 comments
Anomaly seen in production of top-quark pairs
Astronomers say goodbye to the 'millicrab'
Jan 13, 2011 7 comments
Crab Nebula no longer the constant source of X-rays it was supposed to be
Gulf Stream edging northwards along Canadian coast
Jan 13, 2011 1 comment
But implications for this important fishing area are still uncertain
Quantum communications boosted by solid memory devices
Jan 12, 2011 12 comments
Researchers demonstrate the basics of quantum memories
Tevatron reaches the end of the road
Jan 11, 2011 10 comments
US Department of Energy rejects plan to extend Tevatron operations until 2014
Dwarf galaxy solves supermassive mystery
Jan 10, 2011 9 comments
Astronomers suspect supermassive black holes can form before the galaxies in which they are contained
Racetrack memory nears the finish line
Jan 10, 2011 3 comments
Magnetic nanowires could be used as high-density storage devices
Carbon nanotubes spin a yarn
Jan 7, 2011 5 comments
Materials are lightweight, yet stronger than steel
Nobel Foundation stays firm on symposium cancellation
Jan 7, 2011 2 comments
Speaker row scuppers three-day meeting
Thunder storm radiation amazes physicists
Jan 7, 2011 2 comments
Italy's AGILE mission monitors gamma rays from thunderclouds
Physicists find new clue in coronal heating mystery
Jan 6, 2011 21 comments
Plasma jets could be boosting temperatures
Italy approves SuperB particle collider
Jan 6, 2011 9 comments
New €500m experiment will study antimatter and produce synchrotron light
3D magnetic domains imaged for the first time
Jan 5, 2011 7 comments
Neutron tomography resolves century-old problem
Watching atoms at graphene's edge
Jan 4, 2011 3 comments
New spectroscopy technique could lead to better nanoelectronics
Invisibility cloaks shield the large and visible
Jan 1, 2011 7 comments
Carpet cloak could hide cables on the seabed
