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News: October 2002
Old star sheds light on creation of elements
Oct 31, 2002
Astronomers have observed an ancient star containing very little metal for the first time
First glimpses inside an anti-atom
Oct 30, 2002
Physicists make first background-free observation of cold anti-hydrogen’s internal states
Per Bak 1948--2002
Oct 29, 2002
Danish physicist who helped to develop "self-organized criticality" dies
First light for attophysics
Oct 25, 2002
Physicists have used an attosecond X-ray source to directly measure the decay of an electron cloud in an atom for the first time
Molecules power nanoscale computers
Oct 24, 2002
Scientists have made tiny mechanical logic circuits from cascading molecules
Quantum logic: to be, or NOT to be?
Oct 23, 2002
Physicists demonstrate a quantum NOT gate for the first time
Lasers target hard drugs
Oct 22, 2002
Laser spectroscopy could be used to detect heroin and morphine
INTEGRAL takes off
Oct 17, 2002
The European Space Agency has launched the most sensitive ever gamma-ray observatory
The Milky Way's dark secret
Oct 16, 2002
It’s official: there is a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
Caesium joins the condensates
Oct 16, 2002
Caesium has become the seventh element to form a Bose condensate
Lithium joins the superconductors
Oct 14, 2002
When subjected to high pressures lithium has the highest superconducting transition temperature of any element
Hollow core cuts Raman thresholds
Oct 11, 2002
Photonic fibres could shift gas-based nonlinear optics into a new regime
X-rays illuminate nova explosions
Oct 10, 2002
Astronomers assemble the first “before and after” pictures of a nova
Nobel Prize rewards neutrino astrophysics and X-ray astronomy
Oct 8, 2002
Ray Davis, Masatoshi Koshiba and Riccardo Giacconi share the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics
Beer paper wins Ig Nobel physics prize
Oct 7, 2002
A German physicist has received the 2002 Ig Nobel prize in physics
Quantum key travels record distance
Oct 3, 2002
Scientists have set a new record for free-space quantum cryptography
Pugwash urges end to weapons
Oct 3, 2002
Britain must decide now not to build successor to Trident, say scientists
Invisible circuits in a flash
Oct 2, 2002
A new transparent conductor could revolutionize optoelectronics
Atom lithography sees the light
Oct 1, 2002
A new technique for making integrated circuits draws on the principles of magnetic resonance imaging
Water powers novel chips
Oct 1, 2002
A new kind of integrated circuit runs on water instead of electricity