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X-ray 'camera' takes its first snapshot of a crystal lattice
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Read article: Physicists create first superconducting polymer
Physicists create first superconducting polymer
Plastic superconductor could pave the way for mass production
Cosmological model gets a boost
New measurements of cosmic microwaves reinforce the standard model
Read article: Muons threaten Standard Model
Muons threaten Standard Model
Katie Pennicott asks if the Standard Model of particle physics has finally cracked
LED could signal silicon laser
A new LED could lead to a silicon-compatible light source
B factories go into overdrive
Experiments on B mesons yield puzzling early results
Solar magnetism attracts an answer
In the March issue of Physics World, Mike Lockwood of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Southampton University, UK, and Duncan H Mackay of the University of St Andrews, UK, underline the significance of the solar magnetic field in our understanding of the solar flux and cosmic rays in particular.
Standard setting in radiation protection
A more detailed review by William Mills of the International Radiation Protection Association and past president of the US Health Physics Society appears in the March issue of Physics World. In Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century, J Samuel Walker, official historian of the NRC, focuses his attention on the […]
The search for liquid fivefold symmetry
In molecular materials like water, the structural units that make up the liquid state can also dictate the properties of the frozen solid. But what about monatomic liquids that are composed of single atoms, rather than molecules? It is tempting to think of such liquids as completely unstructured, like gases in slow motion, but this […]
Read article: Ultracold plasmas come of age
Ultracold plasmas come of age
During the past decade, the availability of simple, effective methods for laser cooling and trapping has enabled enormous advances in the experimental study of atoms in their ground state. Until quite recently, however, these techniques have had much less impact on investigations of highly excited atoms – and almost none on plasmas. Several laboratories have […]
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