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Bob Claridge explains what skills you require to succeed as a physicist in the hard-nosed world of business
Astronomers have long known that an isolated gravitational system, such as a star, has a negative heat capacity: when energy is added it expands and cools. Now Hellmut Haberland and co-workers at the University of Freiburg in Germany have demonstrated a more down-to-earth example. Recently they have shown that an isolated cluster of 147 sodium […]
Superconductivity – the complete loss of electrical resistance in certain metals when cooled to low temperatures – continues to hold surprises. Hot on the heels of the discovery of charge-induced superconductivity at 50 K on the surface of carbon-60 molecules late last year comes the discovery of bulk superconductivity at temperatures approaching 40 K in magnesium diboride. […]
Physics has dined out on the invention of the transistor, the laser and various medical scanners for years. However, the success of these inventions has depended on researchers leaving their labs – where the experiment only has to work once – to enter the world of industry where engineers are more interested in devices that […]
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