News: February 2011
Telescope team plans to track the whole sky
Feb 24, 2011 3 comments
Astronomers are assembling a global network of terrestrial satellites
Physicists couple oscillating ions
Feb 23, 2011 4 comments
Systems could be used as building blocks of quantum computers
Dots deliver full-colour display
Feb 23, 2011
Quantum dots could make colourful displays with unprecedented resolution
Will the LHC find supersymmetry?
Feb 22, 2011 12 comments
Early null results concern some physicists
To solidify, just add water
Feb 21, 2011 1 comment
Tiny amount of water can turn a liquid suspension into a gel
Researchers favoured in UK migration cap
Feb 18, 2011 2 comments
British government reveals details of its new points-based work visa application
Marshall Stoneham: 1940–2011
Feb 18, 2011 4 comments
Theoretical physicist and current president of the Institute of Physics has died
DNA puts a new spin on electrons
Feb 17, 2011 8 comments
Discovery could reveal the role of spin in biological processes
Physicists create 'anti-laser'
Feb 17, 2011 11 comments
Time-reversed lasing and near-perfect absorption
Metamaterial breaks refraction record
Feb 16, 2011 1 comment
Array of metal structures has highest refractive index ever
Spinning black holes twist light
Feb 15, 2011 16 comments
New test of relativity could help find black holes
Ultracold atoms could reveal the dark sector
Feb 14, 2011 12 comments
Nobel laureate plans experiment to probe 'dark content of the vacuum'
New nanostructure combines memory and logic elements
Feb 10, 2011 1 comment
Magnetic semiconductor could lead to new processing paradigm
Future of cosmology looks bright in a dark universe
Feb 10, 2011 12 comments
What will astronomers observe in a trillion years?
Ultracold atoms race around laser circuit
Feb 9, 2011 4 comments
Doughnut-shaped BEC is rotated by light
Molybdenite transistor is a first
Feb 8, 2011 3 comments
Could 2D material rival graphene in future electronics?
Thermal Casimir force seen for the first time
Feb 8, 2011 5 comments
Attraction is caused by thermal fluctuations
Sun captured in its full 360° glory
Feb 7, 2011 3 comments
NASA's STEREO mission snaps front and back sides of the Sun
Physicists discover new quantum state of water
Feb 4, 2011 19 comments
Behaviour of liquid on the smallest scales could be vital for life
Pure spin current created in graphene
Feb 3, 2011 5 comments
Research bodes well for carbon-based spintronics
Kepler spots six planets orbiting a star
Feb 2, 2011 3 comments
NASA discovery could bring a giant leap for exoplanet research
North Atlantic strait at its warmest for 2000 years
Feb 2, 2011 23 comments
Researchers warn it could spell 'drastic changes' for the Arctic region
Theorists turn to graphene for clues to Higgs
Feb 1, 2011 8 comments
Symmetry-breaking in carbon sheets resembles electroweak split, say physicists