02/11/2006

Physicists observe new property of matter

Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have for the first time observed the spontaneous production of coherence within "excitons," the bound pairs of electrons and holes that enable semiconductors to function ...

Rare transit of Mercury

Scientists from Williams College and the University of Arizona observed Mercury in front of Venus from vantage points on earthbound mountains and with orbiting spacecraft on Wednesday.

T-ray breakthrough could make detecting disease far easier

A breakthrough in the harnessing of ‘T-rays’ - electromagnetic terahertz waves - which could dramatically improve the detecting and sensing of objects as varied as biological cell abnormalities and explosives has been ...

'Macho man' heroes created for war: Historian

The veneration of macho men originates from concerns about the readiness of mollycoddled middle class men to stand up for their nations in the 18th and 19th centuries, an Australian National University historian argues.

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