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NASA studying ways to make 'tractor beams' a reality

Tractor beams -- the ability to trap and move objects using laser light -- are the stuff of science fiction, but a team of NASA scientists has won funding to study the concept for remotely capturing planetary ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 38 | with audio podcast

Light vortex: Circularly polarized luminescence from a stirred and gelled solution of dye

(PhysOrg.com) -- Simple stirring can influence light, according to a report presented in the journal Angewandte Chemie by Kunihiko Okano and co-workers. Dye molecules locked in a gel send out “helical” ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicists discover 'magnetotoroidic effect'

(PhysOrg.com) -- For many years, scientists have known about the magnetoelectric effect, in which an electric field can induce and control a magnetic field, and vice versa. In this effect, the electric field has always been ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 6 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers create bizarre optical phenomena, defying the laws of reflection and refraction

Exploiting a novel technique called phase discontinuity, researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have induced light rays to behave in a way that defies the centuries-old ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (26) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

Fundamental discovery could lead to better memory chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan have found a way to improve the performance of ferroelectric materials, which have the potential to make memory devices with more storage ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research elucidates the effect of disorder on magnetic vortex gyration

Much of the world’s information is stored in memories consisting of magnetic domains, and researchers continue to develop new domain arrangements to enable smaller and faster such memories.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using chaos to model geophysical phenomena

Geophysical phenomena such as the dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean circulation are typically modeled mathematically by tracking the motion of air or water particles. These mathematical models define velocity ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

First comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate

The first comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate and its relationship to the global climate system is published this week by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). The review - Antarctic ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Magnetic mixing creates quite a stir (w/ Video)

Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Physicists Propose a Method to Observe Dirac Monopoles

(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, scientists have been intrigued by the hypothetical existence of magnetic monopoles - particles with only a north or south magnetic pole, thus having a nonzero magnetic charge. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 5 feature


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