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News: March 2011

Rivalry drives Higgs hunt

Mar 31, 2011 5 comments

Special video report from the LHC

Physicists put a new twist on graphene

Mar 31, 2011 5 comments

Why do Dirac fermions endure in multilayers?

Earth grew from 'candy floss' rocks

Mar 30, 2011 4 comments

Geological evidence supports models of terrestrial planet formation

Superconductivity from nowhere

Mar 29, 2011 14 comments

Can superconductivity arise when there is no "superconductor"?

Shedding more light on graphene

Mar 25, 2011 2 comments

Controlling inelastic light scattering in the "wonder material" could help make new nanodevices

Heaviest ever antimatter discovered

Mar 25, 2011 5 comments

RHIC produces antihelium-4 from collisions of gold

Quantum probe beats Heisenberg limit

Mar 24, 2011 11 comments

Ultra-precise measurements could help brain imaging and astrophysics

Nuclear physicists protest at isotope facility closure

Mar 23, 2011 1 comment

2012 US budget cancels funding for the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility

Creating quantum dots from buckyballs

Mar 23, 2011

Bottom-up approach to creating graphene quantum dots

Fire at US underground lab appears under control

Mar 22, 2011 5 comments

Physicists poised to learn if blaze at the Soudan Mine has damaged their experiments

Life could exist around dying stars

Mar 21, 2011 4 comments

White dwarfs may have Earth-like planets

Japan quake triggers nuclear rethink

Mar 18, 2011 18 comments

Nations to review the safety of their nuclear-power programmes

MESSENGER spacecraft enters Mercury orbit

Mar 18, 2011 8 comments

NASA mission safely circles solar system's smallest planet after mammoth journey

Laser beam could nudge space junk away

Mar 17, 2011 5 comments

Ground-based laser could protect satellites

Single spins flipped in optical lattice

Mar 16, 2011 1 comment

Individual atoms frozen in a Mott insulator are flipped at will

Reading discs with fewer photons

Mar 16, 2011 4 comments

Entangled light extracts more information from optical discs

Tevatron tightens its grip on the Higgs

Mar 15, 2011 16 comments

Evidence mounts for a lighter, more elusive particle

Physicists take stock of quake damage

Mar 14, 2011 4 comments

Facilities in Japan hit, but so far appear to have survived major harm

Star-hungry black hole could blow galactic 'bubbles'

Mar 14, 2011 5 comments

Is gamma-ray emission linked to star capture?

Phase-change memory becomes more portable

Mar 11, 2011

Nanotubes shrink power demands

Laser heats up fusion quest

Mar 11, 2011 15 comments

World's largest laser creates conditions for "ignition"

Doppler shift is seen in reverse

Mar 10, 2011 7 comments

Inverse effect observed at optical wavelengths

The battle to find Maxwell's perfect image

Mar 9, 2011 12 comments

New data appear to show a perfect lens without exotic "negative refraction", but many aren't convinced

Distant galaxy helped relight the universe

Mar 8, 2011 9 comments

Astronomers find important clues about reionization

Simon van der Meer: 1925–2011

Mar 8, 2011 2 comments

Nobel laureate who invented way of creating clean antiproton beams dies at 85

'Jumping' artificial atom is tracked in real time

Mar 7, 2011 3 comments

Measurement technique could boost quantum error correction

Bilingualism key to the survival of a language

Mar 4, 2011 5 comments

Mathematical model predicts the survival prospects of local languages

PAMELA data challenge cosmic-ray theory

Mar 4, 2011 6 comments

Proton and helium spectra should be the same, but they're not

NASA's Glory mission fails after take-off

Mar 4, 2011 6 comments

Disaster strikes for $424m craft six minutes after launch

Zinc peels back graphene layers

Mar 3, 2011 1 comment

New processing technique could lead to electronic devices

Ultracold atoms simulate spin-orbit coupling

Mar 3, 2011 3 comments

Physicists probe interaction that could improve quantum simulators

Snapping the birthplace of the human eye

Mar 3, 2011 5 comments

Photos of savannah could boost understanding of human vision

Neutron star has superfluid core

Mar 2, 2011 2 comments

Exotic state of matter persists at hundreds of millions of degrees, say researchers

Discovery hints that meteorites seeded life on Earth

Mar 2, 2011 5 comments

Meteorite rich in ammonia could have provided nitrogen for biological molecules

Nature's building blocks brought to life

Mar 1, 2011 14 comments

Periodic table of shapes could aid theoretical physics