X marks the atom
X-ray 'camera' takes its first snapshot of a crystal lattice
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Astronomers tune in to brown dwarf
Radio signals from a brown dwarf could shed light on these poorly understood objects
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Success for Irish physicist
John Hegarty outlines his plans for physics at Trinity
Physicists create first superconducting polymer
Plastic superconductor could pave the way for mass production
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Muons threaten Standard Model
Katie Pennicott asks if the Standard Model of particle physics has finally cracked
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Cosmological model gets a boost
New measurements of cosmic microwaves reinforce the standard model
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
Ions mimic the impact of meteorites
Now another observation of atomic and planetary systems behaving in surprisingly similar fashion has been reported by Robert Birtcher and Sandrine Schlutig at Argonne National Laboratory, US, and Stephen Donnelly of Salford University, UK (Phys. Rev. Lett. 2000 85 4968). In the March issue of Physics World, Kai Nordlund of the University of Helsinki in […]
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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