News: May 2012
Geoengineering balloon trial cancelled
May 22, 2012 2 comments
SPICE project will be limited to lab experiments
Head of the US nuclear regulator resigns
May 22, 2012 2 comments
Particle physicist Gregory Jaczko steps down amid criticisms
Physicists claim new quantum-teleportation record
May 21, 2012 4 comments
Photon states teleported 97 km over lake
Infrared vision could help the blind to see
May 18, 2012 4 comments
Wireless retinal implant could allow for higher-resolution vision
Levitating drops controlled by fridge magnets
May 17, 2012 7 comments
System could be used to model celestial dynamics
Photon-polarization qubits stored in atomic combs
May 16, 2012 1 comment
Solid-state devices could be used as quantum repeaters
Physicist convicted of terrorism leaves prison
May 16, 2012 4 comments
Former researcher decides against appeal
A cracking approach to nanotechnology
May 15, 2012 1 comment
Cracks are exploited to carve out patterns in silicon
Quantum dots give graphene photodetector a boost
May 14, 2012 13 comments
Hybrid device is a billion times more sensitive to light
Bow-shock no-show shocks astronomers
May 11, 2012 10 comments
Sun is moving slower than we thought relative to interstellar space
Astronomers lift the veil on hidden exoplanet
May 10, 2012 2 comments
Discovery using transit-time variations is a first
Frequency comb takes a measure of distance
May 10, 2012 5 comments
New interferometry technique uses "thousands of lasers"
Silicon 'prism' bends gamma rays
May 9, 2012 11 comments
Surprise discovery could lead to new imaging techniques
Solar-cell efficiency boosted by folds and wrinkles
May 9, 2012 8 comments
New organic photovoltaic mimics leaves
Building nanomagnets atom by atom
May 8, 2012 1 comment
Iron chains could point to new magnetic effect
Quasars shine a new light on cosmic distances
May 4, 2012 8 comments
New method correlates redshift of different quasars
Geophysicists fingerprint sea-level rise
May 7, 2012 7 comments
Technique links ice-sheet melting to ocean observations
'Missing silicon problem' solved, say geophysicists
May 3, 2012 1 comment
Earth's lower mantle matches chondritic meteorites
JUICE picked for launch
May 2, 2012 9 comments
European mission to Jupiter squeezes out rival X-ray and gravitational-wave craft
Acoustic analogue to graphene announced
May 2, 2012 4 comments
Honeycomb array drilled into Plexiglas reveals tell-tale Dirac cones
Textured glass provides a clear view
May 1, 2012 7 comments
Etched surface is glare free and could be either self-cleaning or anti-fogging