News tagged with atomic molecular

Evidence of a new phase in liquid hydrogen

(PhysOrg.com) -- We like to think that we’ve got hydrogen, one of the most basic of elements, figured out. However, hydrogen can still surprise, especially once scientists start probing its properties on the ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers Create Microscope With 100 Million Times Finer Resolution Than Current MRI

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Research scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with volume resolution 100 million ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 8

New way to break some of the strongest chemical bonds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Cornell University in the U.S. have found a new way of breaking two of the strongest chemical bonds, at ambient temperature and pressure, and this breakthrough could lead to ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 0 weblog

First-ever images of atoms moving in a molecule captured

Using a new ultrafast camera, researchers have recorded the first real-time image of two atoms vibrating in a molecule.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (22) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

World's smallest electric motor made from a single molecule

Chemists at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences have developed the world's first single molecule electric motor, a development that may potentially create a new class of devices that could be used ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 04, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Physicists control chemical reactions mechanically

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA physicists have taken a significant step in controlling chemical reactions mechanically, an important advance in nanotechnology, UCLA physics professor Giovanni Zocchi and colleagues report.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

DNA engine observed in real-time traveling along base pair track

In a complex feat of nanoengineering, a team of scientists at Kyoto University and the University of Oxford have succeeded in creating a programable molecular transport system, the workings of which can be observed in real ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 06, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Technique reveals quantum phase transition; could lead to superconducting transistors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like atomic-level bricklayers, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are using a precise atom-by-atom layering technique to fabricate an ultrathin ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Apr 27, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Cryo-electron microscope 'sees' atoms for first time

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA researchers report in the April 30 edition of the journal Cell that they have imaged a virus structure at a resolution high enough to effectively "see" atoms, the first published instan ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 04, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (19) | comments 7

Researchers Shed Light on Birth of the First Stars

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the beginning, there were hydrogen and helium. Created in the first three minutes after the Big Bang, these elements gave rise to all other elements in the universe. The factories that ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

First Pump-Probe Experiment at Linac Coherent Light Source Completed

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first experiment using the Linac Coherent Light Source to illuminate molecules via a "pump-probe" technique has been completed by an international team of more than 30 scientists from ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Water acts as catalyst in explosives

The most abundant material on Earth exhibits some unusual chemical properties when placed under extreme conditions.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Vacuum arcs spark new interest

Whenever two pieces of metal at different voltages are brought near each other, as when an appliance is plugged into a live socket, there is a chance there will be an arc between them. Most of the arcs people ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Super sticky barnacle glue cures like blood clots

Barnacles are a big problem for boats. Adhering to the undersides of vessels, carpets of the crustaceans can increase fuel consumption by as much as 25%. Ship owners would love to know how to stop these hitchhikers gluing ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Michigan Tech Team Models Molecular Transistor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic gadgetry gets tinier and more powerful all the time, but at some point, the transistors and myriad other component parts will get so little they won't work. That's because when ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 3