Hollow fibre carries megawatt pulses
Optical physicists have made a photonic-band gap fibre that can transmit megawatt pulses
Nanowires line up for plastic electronics
Researchers have made cost-effective high-performance thin-film transistors using nanowires and nanoribbons
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First light for one-atom laser
Novel device pushes laser physics to the limit
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Silicon joins race to redefine the kilogram
A new measurement of the Avogadro constant could allow the unit of mass to be defined in terms of atomic and fundamental constants
Bose-Einstein condensates break temperature record
Physicists have cooled a gas of sodium atoms down to less than a nanokelvin
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Carbon dating confirms origins of biblical tunnel
Geologists have used radiometric dating to confirm the age of a water tunnel mentioned in the Bible
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Edward Teller dies
The “father of the H-bomb” died yesterday at the age of 95
Gold lights up biological cells
Biophysicists have developed a new optical technique to image proteins
Biomolecule behaves like a wave
Wave-particle duality has been seen in the largest objects yet
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A new place to store toxic waste?
Certain types of low-permeability rocks could be used to contain dangerous waste
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