News: September 2005
Monitoring the Moon
Sep 30, 2005
Public participation could lead to improvements in the lunar calendar
Metallic superfluid seen in computer
Sep 29, 2005
Theorists predict new state of matter at pressures of 4 million atmospheres
Can proteins perform logic?
Sep 23, 2005
Theorists propose a way for proteins to carry out logic operations
A giant leap for nanodroplets
Sep 22, 2005
Experiment with gold droplets on carbon surface could have widespread applications
Thyristors go organic
Sep 21, 2005
New material could have applications and also be of fundamental interest
Cold plasmas move on
Sep 20, 2005
New plasma source could have applications in medicine and dentistry
A cold twist on the Hanbury Brown Twiss effect
Sep 16, 2005
Physicists discover classic effect in ultracold quantum gases
Nanomagnets come together
Sep 15, 2005
Physicists have shown that two nano-scale magnets can be made to oscillate in phase
Sir Hermann Bondi: 1919 - 2005
Sep 14, 2005
Cosmologist and pioneer of the steady-state theory of the universe dies
What music do you like?
Sep 16, 2005
Statistical physicists reveal our increasingly idiosyncratic musical tastes
Power walking
Sep 8, 2005
Scientists in the US have made a back-pack that can generate electricity while you walk
Colloids go exotic
Sep 7, 2005
Dutch physicists have made novel crystal structures with suspensions of tiny particles
Comet reveals its secrets
Sep 6, 2005
The first results from the Deep Impact mission are about to be published
The physics of pasta
Sep 1, 2005
Physicists have solved a long-standing mystery about how spaghetti breaks