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News: January 2012
Ancient Islamic architects created perfect quasicrystals
Jan 31, 2012 9 comments
Patterns made with nothing more than a compass and a straight edge
Rydberg atom simulates Trojan asteroids
Jan 30, 2012 7 comments
Jupiter's companions recreated on an atomic scale
Carbon membranes excel at separating liquids
Jan 27, 2012 9 comments
Ultrathin films have highly selective permeability
Graphene could be a perfect absorber of light
Jan 26, 2012 7 comments
Periodic patterning confines light, claim physicists
Online tools are 'distraction' for science
Jan 25, 2012 18 comments
Report says journals remain "the gold standard" for disseminating results
Plasmonic metamaterials could make 'gecko toes'
Jan 24, 2012 1 comment
Simulation reveals surprising attraction
Isotopic purity boosts graphene's heat conduction
Jan 23, 2012 4 comments
Pure carbon-12 is a better conductor
Neutrons revive Heisenberg's first take on uncertainty
Jan 20, 2012 10 comments
Experiment quantifies error and disturbance
Early supermassive black holes could grow it alone
Jan 19, 2012 4 comments
Simulation shows cold gas boosts growth
Cell softening could promote tumour growth
Jan 18, 2012 4 comments
Simulations show how mechanical change promotes cell division
Nanotube bundles could boost solar cells
Jan 17, 2012 4 comments
Material performs the two important steps for generating current
Kepler space telescope could find exomoons
Jan 16, 2012 4 comments
Distant satellites could point to extraterrestrial life
Copper collisions create much strangeness
Jan 13, 2012 12 comments
Discovery backs quark–gluon-plasma interpretation
Mystery surrounds death of Oxford astrophysicist
Jan 13, 2012
Police arrest 49-year-old man in connection with incident
Invisibility cloak gives sound performance
Jan 12, 2012 10 comments
Acoustic device provides best cloaking yet
White dwarfs eaten in supernova flare-up
Jan 11, 2012 2 comments
Type 1a supernova left no survivors
Three new maps shine light on dark matter
Jan 11, 2012 16 comments
Maps created by studying the gravitational distortion of light from distant galaxies
Introducing the 'nano-ear'
Jan 10, 2012 5 comments
Trapped nanoparticle could listen to micro-organisms
Rolling microcapsules repair damaged surfaces
Jan 9, 2012 1 comment
Nanoparticles delivered to cracks and defects
Temperatures set to plummet thanks to new cooling scheme
Jan 6, 2012 3 comments
Frigid lattices could lead to new insights in superconductivity
Ohm's law holds down to atomic scale
Jan 5, 2012 11 comments
Wire just four atoms thick eschews quantum effects
Was a metamaterial lurking in the primordial universe?
Jan 5, 2012 5 comments
Extreme magnetic fields could create superlens just after the Big Bang
Ice avalanche enters the lab
Jan 4, 2012 3 comments
Experiment explores the underlying physics of ice flow
Bulging fibre excels at storing light
Jan 3, 2012 3 comments
New device could improve optical communications
