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Chinese scientists create metamaterial black hole

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two physicists in China have used metamaterials to create the first artificial electromagnetic black hole. The scientists, Qiang Cheng and Tie Jun Cui from the Southeast University in Nanjing, ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (60) | comments 20 weblog

Invisible hand in invisible matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of astronomers have found an unexpected link between mysterious 'dark matter' and the visible stars and gas in galaxies that could revolutionise our current understanding ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (50) | comments 38

Novel negative-index metamaterial that responds to visible light designed

A group of scientists led by researchers from the California Institute of Technology has engineered a type of artificial optical material—a metamaterial—with a particular three-dimensional structure such that ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 22, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (43) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Fundamental matter-antimatter symmetry confirmed

International collaboration including MPQ scientists sets a new value for the antiproton mass relative to the electron with unprecedented precision.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (31) | comments 30 | with audio podcast

A breakthrough in superlens development: Cheap, simple lens to let us see a single virus

A superlens would let you see a virus in a drop of blood and open the door to better and cheaper electronics. It might, says Durdu Guney, make ultra-high-resolution microscopes as commonplace as cameras in ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Researchers make magnetic fields breakthrough

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Dundee have made a breakthrough in the study of magnetic fields, which enhances our understanding of how stars, including the Sun, work.

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 20, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (28) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Looking at quantum gravity in a mirror

Einstein's theory of gravity and quantum physics are expected to merge at the Planck-scale of extremely high energies and on very short distances. At this scale, new phenomena could arise. However, the Planck-scale ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

New 'broadband' cloaking technology simple to manufacture

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have created a new type of invisibility cloak that is simpler than previous designs and works for all colors of the visible spectrum, making it possible to cloak larger objects ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (26) | comments 4

Meta-flex: Your new brand for invisibility clothing

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists are one step closer to creating a Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak, with a new form of material that could also be attached to contact lenses to provide 'perfect' ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 03, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (27) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

New nanolaser -- spaser -- key to future optical computers and technologies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Because the new device, called a "spaser," is the first of its kind to emit visible light, it represents a critical component for possible future technologies based on "nanophotonic" circuitry, ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 2

New lens doubles the resolution of conventional microscopes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Conventional lenses can resolve structures around 200 nanometers (nm) in size, but scientists in Europe have for the first time developed a lens capable of achieving optical resolution of ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 25, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Discovery of an Unexpected Boost for Solar Water-Splitting Cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team from Northeastern University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology has discovered, serendipitously, that a residue of a process used to build arrays of titania ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (22) | comments 1

Dark matter: Physicists may have found piece of the puzzle

European astronomers said on Wednesday that an anomalous energy signal detected by an orbiting satellite could be a telltale of the enigmatic substance known as dark matter.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (27) | comments 29

Galaxy Cores to Crash in a Few Million Years

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope offers a rare view of an imminent collision between the cores of two merging galaxies, each powered by a black hole with millions of times the ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (23) | comments 3

Invisibility carpet cloak can hide objects from visible light

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most of the invisibility cloaks that have been demonstrated to date conceal objects at frequencies that are not detectable by the human eye. Designing invisibility cloaks that can conceal ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (20) | comments 22 | with audio podcast feature