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News: August 2012
Geoengineering is 'comparatively inexpensive'
Aug 31, 2012 18 comments
Pumping aerosols into the atmosphere is relatively cheap, say researchers
Infrared and X-ray lasers map chemical bonds
Aug 30, 2012 5 comments
New diffraction technique focuses on valence electrons
Living tissue is laced with electronic sensors
Aug 29, 2012 5 comments
Research could lead to synthetic organs
Nanocrystalline alloys can take the heat
Aug 28, 2012 1 comment
New materials stay strong at high temperatures
Power cell generates and stores energy in one step
Aug 27, 2012 10 comments
Hybrid device could power portable electronics
Pulsar timekeepers measure up to atomic clocks
Aug 24, 2012 9 comments
Stellar timescale could be useful on Earth
Metamaterial switches on to the tune of light
Aug 23, 2012 3 comments
Potential applications include radar and communications
US telescopes faced with closure
Aug 22, 2012 8 comments
Budget constraints threaten six observatories
Integrated quantum chip may help close quantum metrology triangle
Aug 21, 2012 2 comments
Chip can generate discrete quantized voltages
Coated quantum dots make superior solar cells
Aug 20, 2012 4 comments
Record efficiency achieved for CQD photovoltaics
Geologist claims to have found plate tectonics on Mars
Aug 17, 2012
"Strike-strip" fault points towards large-scale movements
New form of carbon is so hard it can indent diamond
Aug 16, 2012 7 comments
Novel material consists of amorphous carbon clusters locked into a crystalline lattice
Colour printing hits ultimate resolution
Aug 14, 2012 2 comments
Disc-over-hole nanoarchitecture creates bright colours
Further proof of extraterrestrial origin of quasicrystals
Aug 13, 2012 3 comments
Discovery could change views on quasicrystal and solar-system formation
Photon shape could be used to encode quantum information
Aug 10, 2012 12 comments
New technique may allow transmission of secure data
India set for Mars mission in 2013
Aug 9, 2012 14 comments
Government approves £70m orbiter to red planet
Condensed-matter trio scoop Dirac prize
Aug 8, 2012
Three theorists win Dirac's birthday medal for their work on topological insulators
X-ray spectroscopy detects single atoms
Aug 8, 2012
New experiments could open the way to X-ray microscopy of nanostructures
Physicists see hints of Majorana fermions
Aug 7, 2012 2 comments
Evidence spotted in a novel kind of Josephson junction
Physicists unveil plans for 'LEP3' collider at CERN
Aug 6, 2012 3 comments
New collider would study the Higgs boson
Can the future affect the past?
Aug 3, 2012 37 comments
"Backward causality" might exist in nature, according to new thought experiment
Ultracold atoms simulate electrical conduction
Aug 3, 2012 1 comment
Ohmic resistance seen for ballistic atoms
Nanowires give vertical transistors a boost
Aug 2, 2012 2 comments
Freestanding structures are made on silicon
Giant carbon-capturing funnels discovered in Southern Ocean
Aug 1, 2012 8 comments
Five 1000 km-wide carbon-sink zones identified
