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First Bose-Einstein condensate of erbium produced

Francesca Ferlaino’s research team at the University of Innsbruck is the first to successfully create a condensate of the exotic element erbium. The Innsbruck experimental physicists hold the world record ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Photonics: Beam me up

'Tractor beams' of light that pull objects towards them are no longer science fiction. Haifeng Wang at the A*STAR Data Storage Institute and co-workers have now demonstrated how a tractor beam can in fact be realized on a ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Is a classical electrodynamics law incompatible with special relativity?

(Phys.org) -- The laws of classical electromagnetism that were developed in the 19th century are the same laws that scientists use today. They include Maxwell’s four equations along with the Lorentz la ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 43 | with audio podcast feature

Excitons: Exotic particles, chilled and trapped, form giant matter wave

Physicists have trapped and cooled exotic particles called excitons so effectively that they condensed and cohered to form a giant matter wave.

Physics / General Physics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Novel probe for ultracold quantum matter developed

(Phys.org) -- In a paper published in the May 20, 2012 edition of the journal Nature Physics, a research group from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University reports the development and de ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicist uses art to make physics more accessible

Based on research she conducted for her doctoral dissertation several years ago, Jatila van der Veen, a lecturer in the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara and a research associate in UC Santa Barbara's physics ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Paper stirs up controversy over the nature of the quantum wave function

(Phys.org) -- Back in November, a paper posted to a preprint server arXiv by three British physicists prompted some heated debate regarding the nature of the quantum wave function, a probability function that p ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 131 | with audio podcast weblog

Spain the dunces in international science test

Spaniards came bottom of the class in an 11-nation science test and nearly half of them could not name a single important scientist in history, a survey showed Tuesday.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Every black hole contains a new universe: A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries

Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today. It's a theory that has been explored ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (86) | comments 234 | with audio podcast

Measuring transient x-rays with lobster eyes

(Phys.org) -- A technology that mimics the structure of a lobster's eyes is now being applied to a new instrument that could help revolutionize X-ray astronomy and keep astronauts safe on the International ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers develop new way to generate superluminal pulses

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel way of producing light pulses that are "superluminal"—in some sense they travel faster than ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 32 | with audio podcast

'Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change' envisions the good life in a harsher world

Think like a planet - and reorganize society to reflect it, says Case Western Reserve University's environmental ethicist Jeremy Bendik-Keymer. That's a new way of thinking about reversing the tide of climate change.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

NASA's Chandra sees remarkable outburst from old black hole

An extraordinary outburst produced by a black hole in a nearby galaxy has provided direct evidence for a population of old, volatile stellar black holes. The discovery, made by astronomers using NASA's Chandra ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Einstein's archive now available online

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you ever wanted to glimpse into Albert Einstein's thoughts, now you can. Last week, the complete catalog of about 80,000 documents written by or addressed to Einstein—letters, postcards, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 7

Israel university upgrades Einstein archive

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Monday launched an updated version of its online Einstein Archives website, providing access to more than 80,000 documents connected to the seminal physicist.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5