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Rice's 'quantum critical' theory gets experimental boost

New evidence this week supports a theory developed five years ago at Rice University to explain the electrical properties of several classes of materials -- including unconventional superconductors -- that ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Science adopts a new definition of seawater

The world's peak ocean science body has adopted a new definition of seawater developed by Australian, German and US scientists to make climate projections more accurate.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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A 2-dimensional electron liquid solidifies in a magnetic field

Physicists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a theory that describes, in a unified manner, the coexistence of liquid and pinned solid phases of electrons in two dimensions under the influence ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Disorder is key to nanotube mystery

Scientists often find strange and unexpected things when they look at materials at the nanoscale -- the level of single atoms and molecules. This holds true even for the most common materials, such as water.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Big Bang simulated in metamaterial shows time travel is impossible

(PhysOrg.com) -- By observing the way that light moves inside a metamaterial, researchers have reconstructed how spacetime has expanded since the Big Bang. The results provide a better understanding of why ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (27) | comments 73 | with audio podcast report

Norbert Wiener's earlier work may prove more important

Norbert Wiener, the mathematician and former child prodigy who won the National Medal of Science in 1963, figures prominently in MIT lore. After entering Tufts University at 11 and getting his PhD from Harvard ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Science adopts a new definition of seawater

The world's peak ocean science body has adopted a new definition of seawater developed by Australian, German and US scientists to make climate projections more accurate.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Jupiter's rocky core bigger and icier, according to new simulation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Jupiter has a rocky core that is more than twice as large as previously thought, according to computer calculations by a University of California, Berkeley, geophysicist who simulated conditions ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 25, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 4

Evolution as Described by the Second Law of Thermodynamics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Often, physics and biology appear as different worlds, from a scientist’s point of view. Each discipline has its own language and concepts, and physicists and biologists tend to look at the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 11, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (112) | comments 29 feature

Quantum effects writ large

A team of physicists from Rice University, Rutgers University, and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany, this week reports in the journal Science the discovery of surprising quantum ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 15, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 0

No Big Bang? Endless Universe Made Possible by New Model

A new cosmological model demonstrates the universe can endlessly expand and contract, providing a rival to Big Bang theories and solving a thorny modern physics problem, according to University of North Carolina at Chapel ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 30, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (191) | comments 0

Leibniz Prize winners 2007 announced

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) has announced the winners of its 2007 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. At its meeting on 7 December 2006, the DFG Joint Committee named ten scientists ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 13, 2006 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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