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News: September 2004
Table-top accelerators make progress
Sep 29, 2004
Plasma-based particle accelerators are now able to produce monoenergetic electron beams
The small world of Brazilian soccer
Sep 28, 2004
Statistical physicists tackle football in its spiritual home
Law-breaking liquid defies the rules
Sep 24, 2004
Physicists discover a liquid that "freezes" when heated
Mars attacked by solar wind
Sep 23, 2004
The solar wind might be responsible for the lack of water on Mars
Radioactivity speeds up
Sep 21, 2004
Placing a radioactive nucleus in a carbon-60 cage can reduce its half-life
Microscope focuses on sub-Angstrom scales
Sep 16, 2004
New "spectacles" boost the performance of scanning transmission electron microscopes
Nanotubes feel the force
Sep 15, 2004
New device exploits both the mechanical and electronic properties of carbon nanotubes
Petroleum under pressure
Sep 14, 2004
High temperatures and pressures in the Earth's mantle might be capable of turning inorganic materials into hydrocarbon fuels
Have we seen an exoplanet?
Sep 13, 2004
Astronomers might have taken the first ever photograph of an extrasolar planet
Tiny writing heats up
Sep 10, 2004
Physicists develop improved dip-pen nanolithography method for nanometre-scale patterning
Taking a close look at turbulence
Sep 9, 2004
Physicists move closer to explaining one of the last great mysteries of classical physics
Magic clusters double up
Sep 7, 2004
Theorists have discovered a new family of clusters with a metal core and silver outer shell
Floating femtodroplets
Sep 6, 2004
Physicists have built a new micron-sized magnetic-levitation device
NIST unveils smallest atomic clock
Sep 3, 2004
An atomic clock that is the size of a grain of rice could bring the technology to portable electronics
Evidence for supersolid is firmed up
Sep 2, 2004
Superfluidity has been seen in a bulk sample of solid helium