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News: January 2013
Human hearing is highly nonlinear
Jan 31, 2013 7 comments
Ability to determine pitch and timing of sounds beats uncertainty limit
Neutrons on a lab bench
Jan 30, 2013 7 comments
Laser device could provide compact intense source of neutrons
Source produces indistinguishable electrons
Jan 29, 2013 3 comments
Technique could help entangle electrons in the future
Nanosilicon produces hydrogen on demand
Jan 28, 2013 3 comments
Technique requires no heat, light or electricity
Optical tractor beam sorts tiny particles
Jan 24, 2013 3 comments
Beads are pushed or pulled depending on their size
Digital files stored and retrieved using DNA memory
Jan 23, 2013 5 comments
Double-helix archive could preserve vast amounts of data
Single molecules detected with plasmonic metamaterial
Jan 22, 2013 1 comment
Phase measurement boosts sensitivity
Lasers could chill antihydrogen
Jan 21, 2013 1 comment
New method could cool antimatter to millikelvin temperatures
Nanowires make good solar cells
Jan 21, 2013 3 comments
Research could lead to cheap and flexible devices
Physicists create SQUID-like Bose–Einstein condensate
Jan 18, 2013 12 comments
Ultracold atoms could measure rotation
Physicists seek cosmic domain walls
Jan 17, 2013 30 comments
Structures created just after the Big Bang could be detected on Earth
Pulsed lasers could make proton therapy more accessible
Jan 16, 2013 1 comment
System could also be used to study ultrafast chemistry
Fires ravage Siding Spring Observatory
Jan 16, 2013
Site closed for two weeks until full assessments are made
How many dominoes will topple a cathedral tower?
Jan 15, 2013 3 comments
Theoretical study inspired by science quiz
Nanoantenna array steers light
Jan 14, 2013 6 comments
New structures could be used to make 3D holography displays
Proteins boost quantum coherence in bacteria
Jan 11, 2013 8 comments
Study sheds new light on photosynthesis
Somersaulting film generates electricity
Jan 10, 2013 3 comments
Energy is harvested from water vapour
Physicist homes in on universe's earliest magnetic fields
Jan 10, 2013 9 comments
How primordial magnetism arose out of nothing
Muon-capture measurement backs QCD prediction
Jan 9, 2013 11 comments
Complex calculations pass experimental test
'Boson sampling' offers shortcut to quantum computing
Jan 8, 2013 10 comments
Optical device could outstrip classical computers
Heat flows 'backwards' across Josephson junction
Jan 7, 2013 6 comments
Physicists confirm 1965 prediction of thermal effect
Carbon's Hoyle state calculated at long last
Jan 3, 2013 19 comments
Supercomputer simulates "bent state" crucial for nucleosynthesis
Thorium could help alien life emerge
Jan 2, 2013 8 comments
Surfeit of radioactivity could warm exoplanets
