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News: September 2012
Survival of the fittest nanoantenna
Sep 28, 2012 3 comments
Evolutionary algorithms boost optical performance
Slow-cooling super Earths could lack life
Sep 27, 2012 4 comments
Studying how the interiors of expolanet varies with time is essential to knowing if they harbour life
Origins of galactic jet seen for the first time
Sep 27, 2012 13 comments
Spinning black hole could put general relativity to the test
Spin friction seen for a single atom
Sep 26, 2012 2 comments
Magnitude of effect is "surprisingly large"
Bursting bubbles drive micromotors
Sep 25, 2012 2 comments
Physicists capture Janus particles in motion
How many water molecules does it take to make ice?
Sep 21, 2012 2 comments
Cluster measurements could shed light on cloud formation
Does noise improve a bird's spin-based compass?
Sep 20, 2012 6 comments
More insights into how birds use quantum mechanics to navigate
Huge cosmic-ray observatory set for Siberia
Sep 19, 2012 9 comments
First prototypes installed for the $46m Hundred Square-km Cosmic Origin Explorer
Physicists unfold the mechanics of origami
Sep 18, 2012 5 comments
Curved-crease structures studied for the first time
First flat lens focuses light without distortion
Sep 17, 2012 4 comments
Pattern of nanoantennas eliminates optical aberrations
Planck's law violated at the nanoscale
Sep 14, 2012 8 comments
"Fluctuational electrodynamics" describes how tiny objects radiate
Graphene offers up another quantum surprise
Sep 12, 2012 1 comment
The fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene is different
Topological behaviour spotted in quasicrystal
Sep 11, 2012 8 comments
Discovery could lead to materials with dimensions greater than three
Dark-matter hope fades in microwave haze
Sep 10, 2012 16 comments
Planck reveals galactic feature is the wrong shape for dark-matter particles
Atoms interfere one at a time
Sep 7, 2012 3 comments
Single-atom matter–wave experiment is a first, say physicists
Complex quasicrystals created using new nanofabrication technique
Sep 6, 2012 4 comments
Patterns with 36-fold rotational symmetry realized
SKA names director-general
Sep 5, 2012 5 comments
Philip Diamond picked to head giant radio telescope
Nitrogen vacancies detect magnetic fields in fluids
Sep 4, 2012 2 comments
Nanodiamonds controlled using optical tweezers
Ultracold fermions simulate spin–orbit coupling
Sep 3, 2012 1 comment
Experiments could shed light on Majorana particles
