Heavy metals open path to high temperature nanomagnets
How would you like to store all the films ever made on a device the size of an I-phone?
Nanophysics
Mar 28, 2011
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LCLS helps create order from chaos
In the world of physics, where everything tends toward disorder, researchers working on the Linac Coherent Light Source are seeking perfect order. Many experiments at the pioneering machine will require each molecule in a ...
General Physics
Oct 8, 2010
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Freeing the bonds: 2010 Nobel highlights the carbon future
In the 1960s, American scientists made an exciting discovery: a compound extracted from the bark of the Pacific yew tree destroyed cancer cells in the lab.
Materials Science
Oct 6, 2010
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Some Choices Are Better Than Others in Studying the Universal Solvent
By mixing and matching choices from a buffet of 30 to 70 options, scientists are modeling water's behavior in surface and subsurface reactions and in heterogeneous atmospheric processes such as the formation of clouds. But, ...
Materials Science
Apr 1, 2010
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Coalition wants US privacy law revamped for Internet Age
Internet giants including Microsoft and Google have joined US privacy groups and academics in a campaign to get outdated US privacy laws revamped for the Internet Age.
Internet
Mar 31, 2010
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Herschel HIFI instrument resumes quest for water in Universe
The back up system of HIFI, the state of the art Dutch space instrument on ESA's Herschel space telescope, has been switched on successfully.
Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2010
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Scientists Show Strontium's Swimming Skills
(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, a trio from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Louisiana Tech University showed that strontium ions congregate on water's surface. Their computer simulation and careful calculations finally ...
Materials Science
Oct 27, 2009
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Scientists Image the 'Anatomy' of a Molecule (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, IBM researchers in Zurich, Switzerland, have taken a 3D image of an individual molecule. Using an atomic force microscope, the researchers constructed a "force map" of pentacene, an organic ...
