News tagged with fundamental property

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 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Smart, self-healing hydrogels open new possibilities in medicine, engineering

University of California, San Diego bioengineers have developed a self-healing hydrogel that binds in seconds, as easily as Velcro, and forms a bond strong enough to withstand repeated stretching. The material ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Working models for the gravitational field of Phobos

Phobos is the larger and closer of the two natural satellites of Mars. Despite decades of Martian exploration, we still know very little about Phobos. Many fundamental properties of this small potato-shaped body stay vague, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

EU refers anti-online piracy pact to court

The European Commission said Wednesday it has asked the EU's highest court to rule on the legality of a controversial treaty covering copyright, counterfeiting and Internet freedom.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

MSU chemists become the first to solve an 84-year-old theory

The same principle that causes figure skaters to spin faster as they draw their arms into their bodies has now been used by Michigan State University researchers to understand how molecules move energy around following the ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

How long do electrons live in graphene?

Together with international colleagues, scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have added another important component towards understanding the material graphene; a material that is ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First result from a new generation of reactor neutrino experiments

Physicists of the Double Chooz experiment detected a short-range disappearance of electron antineutrinos. They presented this result on Wednesday 9 November 2011 at the LowNu conference in Seoul, Korea. It helps determine ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Study measures key property of potential 'spintronic' material

An advanced material that could help bring about next-generation "spintronic" computers has revealed one of its fundamental secrets to a team of scientists from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and the National ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Is graphene the best quantum resistance standard?

New research from NPL's Quantum Detection Group presents the most precise measurements of the quantum Hall effect ever made, using the two-dimensional material graphene.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Los Alamos achieves world-record pulsed magnetic field, moves closer to 100-tesla mark

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory's Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory have set a new world record for the strongest magnetic field produced by ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Physicists report progress in understanding high-temperature superconductors

Although high-temperature superconductors are widely used in technologies such as MRI machines, explaining the unusual properties of these materials remains an unsolved problem for theoretical physicists. Major progress in ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Breakthrough in quantum computing: Resisting 'quantum bug'

Scientists have taken the next major step toward quantum computing, which will use quantum mechanics to revolutionize the way information is processed.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Beam line 13 fuels discovery fever for fundamental physicists

(PhysOrg.com) -- The simplest, most sensible "Big Bang" universe, theoretical physicists believe, would be one in which equal numbers of particles and antiparticles are formed in pairs. As the universe cools, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Looking inside the atom for new technologies

Nuclear physics, which studies the huge variety of nuclei in all the matter that surrounds us, not only provides answers about the evolution of our universe, it also provides the underpinning knowledge needed to exploit nuclear ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 19, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Graphene's versatility promises new applications

Since its discovery just a few years ago, graphene has climbed to the top of the heap of new super-materials poised to transform the electronics and nanotechnology landscape. As N.J. Tao, a researcher at the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1