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New plastics can conduct electricity

(PhysOrg.com) -- A newly discovered technique makes it possible to create a whole new array of plastics with metallic or even superconducting properties.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (37) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Memory with Matter Qubits

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists have successfully operated a quantum gate between two remote particles of matter, marking an important step toward the development of a quantum computer. In ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 2 feature

Atom Pinhole Camera Acts as a Shrinking Copy Machine

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1983, Richard Feynman proposed the idea of a machine that could create smaller scale replicas of itself. Today, such a system is still a challenge, but a machine that can produce nanometer-sized ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 8 feature

Two atoms entangled using microwaves for the first time

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have for the first time linked the quantum properties of two separated ions (electrically charged atoms) by manipulating them with microwaves ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 38 | with audio podcast

Scientists Create World's Smallest Snowman (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- David Cox, a scientist in the Quantum Detection group at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, is an expert in nanofabrication techniques. Recently, using the tools of his trade and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (20) | comments 5 weblog

A flow of heavy-ion results from the Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider shut down its proton beams on Nov. 4, 2010, and quickly began circulating beams of lead ions, a run scheduled to last a month. Within days, the first results from ALICE, the LHC experiment ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New interferometer could simplify materials research

(PhysOrg.com) -- “Most current hard x-ray interferometers are based on crystals, which require their high quality and high mechanical stability,” Anatoly Snigirev tells PhysOrg.com. “This can make x-ray interferometry quite ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 1 feature

Futuristic computing designs inside beetle scales

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though it began as a science fair project involving a shiny Brazilian beetle, Lauren Richey’s research may advance the pursuit of ultra-fast computers that manipulate light rather than electricity.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 7

Pounding particles to create Neptune's water in the lab

We know 'icy' Neptune is partially comprised of water molecules but until now we have had little means to test how water behaves in the extreme conditions that Neptune presents.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

High, not flat: nanowires for a new chip architecture

Nowadays, a myriad of silicon transistors are responsible to pass on the information on a microchip. The transistors are arranged in a planar array, i.e. lying flat next to each other, and have shrunk down ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

A new accelerator to study steps on the path to fusion

The just-completed NDCX-II, the second generation Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is an unusual special-purpose ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Antibacterial silver nanoparticles are a blast

Writing in the International Journal of Nanoparticles, Rani Pattabi and colleagues at Mangalore University, explain how blasting silver nitrate solution with an electron beam can generate nanoparticles that are more effect ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 24, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Atomically thin 'switch' makes for smarter electronic devices in the future

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new transistor made from graphene - the world's thinnest material - has been developed by a research team at the University of Southampton.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 08, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Reproducing nanoscale surfaces with adhesion properties similar to gecko footpad

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Northeastern and Korean universities collaborate on developing a surface that mimics lizard?s footpad for extraordinary adhesive quality

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New beam source for Brookhaven accelerators

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new source of ions will soon be the starting point for the beams entering two major research facilities at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory - the Relativistic ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast