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News: March 2012

Fossilized raindrops dampen theory of ancient warming

Mar 30, 2012

Atmospheric pressure was not higher 2.7 billion years ago

'Nanorefrigerator' is cooled using sunlight

Mar 29, 2012

Quantum dots get electrons hopping

Quantum interference: the movie

Mar 29, 2012 49 comments

Physicists watch as giant molecules behave like waves

Can GPS find variations in Planck's constant?

Mar 28, 2012 16 comments

Satellites put limit on violation of general relativity, claim physicists

Further doubts cast over lunar formation models

Mar 26, 2012 13 comments

More isotopic similarities between Earth and Moon found

Fermilab told to rein in planned neutrino experiment

Mar 26, 2012 9 comments

LBNE will need "phased approach" after suffering funding setback

Electron tomography peers into the nanoworld

Mar 23, 2012 3 comments

Nanoparticles imaged in 3D with atomic resolution for the first time

How to hide from a magnetic field

Mar 22, 2012 7 comments

Researchers build the first ever practical exact cloak

Proteins wander through whorls and vortices

Mar 22, 2012 5 comments

Self-organized system could shed light on collective behaviour

Robot jellyfish fuelled by hydrogen

Mar 21, 2012 2 comments

Swimmer has artificial muscles based on carbon nanotubes

Physicists look round corners in 3D

Mar 20, 2012 2 comments

Laser pulses reconstruct image of hidden artist's mannequin

Laser writer makes graphene supercapacitors

Mar 20, 2012 4 comments

Devices could power flexible and portable electronics

Neutrino-based communication is a first

Mar 19, 2012 8 comments

Data transmitted 1 km using elusive particles

'Designer' graphene makes its debut

Mar 15, 2012 6 comments

Artificial form of 2D material sheds light on Dirac fermions

Graphene simulated using ultracold atoms

Mar 14, 2012 3 comments

Creation of Dirac points is a first

Dineutron emission seen for the first time

Mar 14, 2012 4 comments

Rare decay glimpsed in unstable beryllium

Department of Energy boost for small nuclear reactors

Mar 13, 2012 9 comments

Three firms to build modular power plants at US site

Reeling in cheap plastic solar film

Mar 13, 2012 8 comments

UK start-up creates printable, thin-film solar cells

Wiping data will cost you energy

Mar 12, 2012 22 comments

Landauer principle confirmed after more than 50 years

Daya Bay nails neutrino oscillation

Mar 9, 2012 34 comments

Chinese–US experiment achieves best measurement yet of key neutrino mixing angle

Graphene in new ‘battery’ breakthrough?

Mar 8, 2012 58 comments

Cell harvests thermal energy from its surroundings

LED converts heat into light

Mar 8, 2012 8 comments

Device has an "efficiency" of greater than 200%

Internal structure of antihydrogen probed for the first time

Mar 7, 2012 14 comments

ALPHA experiment makes rapid advances in demystifying antimatter

Physicists put a new twist on radio

Mar 7, 2012 10 comments

Fusilli-shaped waves could boost wireless capacity

Topological quantum computing moves closer

Mar 5, 2012 3 comments

Error correction demonstrated for first time in the lab

Isotope separation with a light touch

Mar 2, 2012 2 comments

Lithium-7 could be isolated without toxic mercury

Could graphynes be better than graphene?

Mar 1, 2012 6 comments

2D carbon-based materials could have exotic electronic properties