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News: February 2003
Glass behaves like a metal
Feb 28, 2003
The similarity between glass and metal fracture has been shown for the first time
No sign yet of extra dimensions
Feb 27, 2003
Physicists have searched for new forces predicted by string theory to exist in extra dimensions, but found nothing
Photonic circuits move a step closer
Feb 26, 2003
Physicists build an ultra-high Q microcavity-on-a-chip
Lorentz symmetry stays intact
Feb 25, 2003
Physicists set new limits on violations of Lorentz invariance
Single molecule switches for less
Feb 21, 2003
Physicists make the lowest energy molecular switch to date
Hubble photographs the Boomerang Nebula
Feb 20, 2003
The first high-resolution images of the “coldest place in the Universe”
Nanowires approach the quantum realm
Feb 20, 2003
Researchers have made the smallest silicon nanowires ever
Qubits are on solid ground
Feb 19, 2003
Physicists entangle solid state quantum bits for the first time
Superconductor transistor breaks records
Feb 18, 2003
Scientists build a novel superconducting amplifier
Astronomers detect “missing” baryons
Feb 12, 2003
Astrophysicists may have found the missing visible matter in our galaxy
Ancient radiation sheds new light on the universe
Feb 11, 2003
WMAP satellite reveals fine detail in the cosmic microwave background
Novel photomasks make 3-D microstructures
Feb 6, 2003
Scientists reveal a new photolithographic technique for making computer chips
DNA acts like a “piston”
Feb 3, 2003
Biophysicists have built the first expanding-contracting DNA device
