News: April 2004
Nanotube transistors speed up
Apr 30, 2004
Electronic devices based on carbon nanotubes have moved a step closer
Making new minerals on the Moon
Apr 28, 2004
Researchers have discovered a new mineral in a meteorite from the Moon
Physics and fame
Apr 27, 2004
Researchers have shown that there is a direct link between fame and merit in science
Magnetic recording has a speed limit
Apr 21, 2004
Experiment at accelerator shows that recording speeds cannot increase for ever
Spiders get a grip
Apr 20, 2004
Microscopy experiments reveal the importance of van der Waals forces for our eight-legged friends
Gravity Probe B takes off
Apr 20, 2004
Experiment will check two untested predictions of general relativity
Fermi gases approach superfluid regime
Apr 15, 2004
Groups in the US and Austria have seen evidence for superfluidity in a gas of fermions
Terahertz radiation targets skin cancer
Apr 14, 2004
New technique could offer non-invasive alternative to conventional approaches
Reversal of fortune for Turin Shroud
Apr 13, 2004
Italian researchers have detected a second face on the famous Shroud
Geophysicists turn up the pressure
Apr 8, 2004
Novel phase transition could explain the Earth's mysterious D" layer
Gravitational-wave detector goes underground
Apr 6, 2004
Japan builds laser-based experiment in new approach
Physicists move closer to the quantum limit
Apr 2, 2004
A tiny mechanical arm has been made to vibrate at just above the limits of the uncertainty principle