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News: February 2012
Earthshine could help find life on other planets
Feb 29, 2012 7 comments
New technique detects vegetation and clouds
Plasmons boost light emission from quantum dots
Feb 27, 2012 6 comments
Hybrid nanostructures could make better LEDs
Rain drains energy from the atmosphere
Feb 24, 2012 5 comments
Study shows importance of rain to climate energy budget
Doubts grow over superluminal-neutrino result
Feb 23, 2012 64 comments
Faulty cable could have led to an underestimate of neutrino journey times
Invisibility cloaking goes thermodynamic
Feb 22, 2012 4 comments
Device could shield objects from heat, rather than light
Lab study could aid inkjet printing
Feb 22, 2012 2 comments
Determining when a stretched liquid filament breaks up into many drops
UK overtakes US in research impact
Feb 21, 2012 5 comments
UK now second in physics-quality league behind Canada
Researchers make single-atom transistor
Feb 21, 2012 2 comments
Transistor may help in developing a functional quantum computer
Cyclotrons make commercial quantities of technetium
Feb 20, 2012 1 comment
Breakthrough could alleviate medical-isotope shortages
Graphene-based composites could cool electronics
Feb 20, 2012 2 comments
New thermal interface materials might also prevent solar cells from overheating
DNA nanorobot delivers drugs
Feb 17, 2012 1 comment
Device may be used to treat diseases such as cancer
Uterus contractions caused by electrical coupling
Feb 16, 2012 4 comments
Researchers explain how cells in the uterus behave in synchrony
Optical fibres with integrated semiconductor junctions developed
Feb 16, 2012 8 comments
New fibre could lead to seamless optical-communication systems
Axions could solve lithium problem
Feb 15, 2012 16 comments
Hypothetical particles may have affected nucleosynthesis
Butterfly lights the way to better thermal imaging
Feb 14, 2012 2 comments
Temperature sensor is smaller, faster and more sensitive
Nanoshells could boost photovoltaics
Feb 13, 2012 5 comments
Whispering-gallery structures trap more light
Japanese cosmology centre secures long-term future
Feb 10, 2012 2 comments
Tokyo institute receives $7.5m endowment from US-based Kavli Foundation
Neutrinos point to rare stellar fusion
Feb 9, 2012 6 comments
Borexino catches the first glimpse of pep reaction
Listening with a 'quantum ear'
Feb 9, 2012 2 comments
Tiny microphone could pave the way for quantum acoustics
Physicists create new slow-light technique
Feb 8, 2012
Electromagnetically induced transparency seen in nuclear system for first time
How supercontinents are born
Feb 8, 2012 7 comments
Geological model predicts merging of North America and Asia
Raman technique peers into cabin baggage
Feb 7, 2012 5 comments
New scanner could ease airport liquids ban
Theoretical-physics hub opens in South America
Feb 7, 2012 6 comments
South American Institute for Fundamental Research set to tackle subjects ranging from mathematical biology to cosmology
Vertical graphene transistor avoids leakage
Feb 6, 2012 2 comments
New device can be switched on and off
Cool sun could host habitable planet
Feb 3, 2012 5 comments
New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a cool star
Spider webs strengthened by local sacrifices
Feb 3, 2012 4 comments
Arachnid silks could inspire improved building designs
Magnetic fields put the brakes on millisecond pulsars
Feb 2, 2012 2 comments
Research could also help better determine pulsar age
Getting to the froth of the matter
Feb 2, 2012 5 comments
Physicists create the "ideal foam" in the lab for the first time
Frequency comb reaches extreme ultraviolet
Feb 1, 2012 4 comments
Device could boost study of fundamental constants
