Success for Irish physicist
John Hegarty outlines his plans for physics at Trinity
X marks the atom
X-ray 'camera' takes its first snapshot of a crystal lattice
Astronomers tune in to brown dwarf
Radio signals from a brown dwarf could shed light on these poorly understood objects
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Physicists create first superconducting polymer
Plastic superconductor could pave the way for mass production
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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 Step...
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...
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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...
