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Scientists Produce First Movie of Individual Carbon Atoms in Action (w/Videos)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Science fiction fans still have another two months of waiting for the new Star Trek movie, but fans of actual science can feast their eyes now on the first movie ever of carbon atoms moving ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (31) | comments 8

PhD student solves decade-long mystery of magnetism

(PhysOrg.com) -- A PhD student from the London Centre for Nanotechnology has won a prize for solving a decade-long mystery central to understanding modern magnetic systems.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (33) | comments 3

Scientists drag light by slowing it to speed of sound

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have, for the first time, been able to drag light by slowing it down to the speed of sound and sending it through a rotating crystal.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

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New process cleanly extracts oil from tar sands and fouled beaches

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new, more environmentally friendly method of separating oil from tar sands has been developed by a team of researchers at Penn State. This method, which utilizes ionic liquids to separate ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 48 | with audio podcast

New small solid oxide fuel cell reaches record efficiency

Individual homes and entire neighborhoods could be powered with a new, small-scale solid oxide fuel cell system that achieves up to 57 percent efficiency, significantly higher than the 30 to 50 percent efficiencies ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 45 | with audio podcast

Solar System older than thought

The Solar System could be nearly two million years older than thought, according to a study published on Sunday by the journal Nature Geoscience.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 22, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (26) | comments 25

Berkeley Researchers Light Up White OLEDs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Light-emitting diodes, which employ semiconductors to produce artificial light, could reduce electricity consumption and lighten the impact of greenhouse gas emissions. However, moving this ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

NASA successfully tests five-segment solid rocket motor

NASA and ATK Space Systems successfully completed a two-minute, full-scale test of Development Motor-3 (DM-3), Thursday, Sept. 8. DM-3 is NASA's largest and most powerful solid rocket motor ever designed for ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 30 | with audio podcast

Artificial magnetic fields for light could illuminate correlated quantum systems

(PhysOrg.com) -- In general, the field of many-body physics involves the interactions and collective behavior of large numbers of particles. Scientists have made significant progress in exploring this field, ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Intel, Micron Introduce 25-Nanometer NAND

Intel Corporation and Micron Technology, Inc. today announced the world's first 25-nanometer (nm) NAND technology, which provides a more cost-effective path for increasing storage capacity in such popular ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 01, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Future NASA rocket to be most powerful ever built (Update)

To soar far away from Earth and even beyond the moon, NASA has dreamed up the world's most powerful rocket, a behemoth that borrows from the workhorse liquid rockets that sent Apollo missions into space four ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 40

Intel Delivers Industry's First 34-Nanometer NAND Flash Solid-State Drives

Intel is moving to a more advanced, 34- nanometer manufacturing process for its NAND flash-based Solid State Drive (SSD) products, which are an alternative to a computer's hard drive. The move to 34nm will ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 0

New process is promising for hydrogen fuel cell cars

A new process for storing and generating hydrogen to run fuel cells in cars has been invented by chemical engineers at Purdue University.

Chemistry / Other

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (20) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Probing the magnetic properties of solid oxygen

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Many scientists, like me, have an interest in the simplest molecules," Stefan Klotz tells PhysOrg.com. "These simple molecules, like water, nitrogen and oxygen, are in quite of the lot of ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 26, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Bridgelux demonstrates silicon substrate LED that produces 135 lumens per watt

(PhysOrg.com) -- Silicon substrate LED's are cool, but you won't find them in your TV, or in the headlights of your car. They simply do not throw off enough light to be used in commercial applications. Or, ...

Technology / Semiconductors

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