News: July 2011
Funding shortfall hits European X-ray laser facility
Jul 29, 2011 1 comment
Russia gives €50m to help plug €150m funding gap, but more is needed
Elusive Sun waves come into focus
Jul 28, 2011 5 comments
NASA's SDO spots an abundance of Alfvénic waves in the Sun's corona
Microwave study bursts Hubble bubble
Jul 26, 2011 8 comments
Physicists write off alternative to dark energy
Was the universe born spinning?
Jul 25, 2011 37 comments
Galaxy study suggests net angular momentum may exist
New laser technique makes cold positronium
Jul 25, 2011 7 comments
Exotic "atoms" could help us understand where missing antimatter went
Aerosols must be considered by climate models
Jul 22, 2011 9 comments
Airborne particles could have caused lull in warming
Carbon nanotubes could store solar energy
Jul 21, 2011 8 comments
New material on par with lithium-ion batteries
Cloak could hide ships from flowing water
Jul 21, 2011 5 comments
Design could lead to more efficient vessels
Radioactive decay accounts for half of Earth's heat
Jul 19, 2011 12 comments
Geoneutrino detector probes deep into the Earth
Light propagates as if 'space is missing'
Jul 18, 2011 22 comments
Device that transmits light with zero-phase delay could boost optoelectronics
Dark energy spotted in the cosmic microwave background
Jul 15, 2011 14 comments
Gravitational lensing focuses directly on the dark sector
Physics student awaits espionage trial in Iran
Jul 15, 2011 1 comment
Omid Kokabee will appear before judge tomorrow, say close sources
Inkjet printing produces high-performance transistors
Jul 14, 2011 4 comments
New technique combines two types of ink
Camera fits on the head of a pin
Jul 13, 2011 1 comment
Microscopic device can be made for a few pennies
How to make a superlens from a few cans of cola
Jul 11, 2011 8 comments
Home-made resonators beat diffraction limit
Nanomagnet memories approach low-power limit
Jul 8, 2011 8 comments
Ultralow power devices could revolutionize electronics
Electrical processes provide the initial spark for eyesight
Jul 8, 2011 2 comments
Conventional view of eyesight challenged by experimental work
Drumming to a cooler quantum beat
Jul 6, 2011 3 comments
Ground state endures for much longer due to new micro-drum design
Quantum memory works at room temperature
Jul 6, 2011 5 comments
Single photon stored in warm caesium atoms
Rotating cylinder puts a new spin on slow light
Jul 5, 2011 6 comments
First time for rotary "photon drag", researchers claim
Testing nuclear materials on the nanoscale
Jul 1, 2011
Results could help in the design of new materials for nuclear applications
Galaxy classification is out of tune, say astronomers
Jul 1, 2011 7 comments
Are some galaxies spinning faster than we thought?