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Searching In features, blog entries, column entries & articles, Under the topic Physics
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Ulf Leonhardt is riding high these days, with a new award from the Royal Society of Great Britain to further develop his ideas on how to make things in plain sight disappear. Born in East Germany and now occupying the theoretical physics chair at Scotland’s University of St. Andrews, Leonhardt is among the leaders of the worldwide race to realize an old dream of science fiction: cloaking devices. They would steer light or other electromagnetic waves around them like water around a stone in a smooth stream, leaving nary a ripple of difference in the flow. Such things, letting light swish ... (p. 18)Published: November 21st, 2009; Vol.176 #11Found in: Physics -
Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Large Hadron Collider suffers carb attackEfforts to get the Large Hadron Collider up and running just encountered a temporary snag, according to yesterday's online edition of The Times of London. A crusty chunk of bread “paralysed a high voltage installation that should have been powering the cooling unit.”Published: Friday, November 6th, 2009Found in: Physics, Science & Society and Technology
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Home / News / November 7th, 2009; Vol.176 #10 / Quantum computers could tackle enormous linear equationsNew work suggests that the envisioned systems would be powerful enough to quickly process even trillions of variables. (p. 11)Published: November 7th, 2009; Vol.176 #10Found in: Computers, Physics and Technology
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Charles K. Kao wins for discoveries enabling fiber-optic communication, and Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith win for inventing the charge-coupled device (p. 14)Published: October 24th, 2009; Vol.176 #9Found in: Physics and Technology -
Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Neutrons for military and medical imagingAn accelerator-based neutron-production system is being designed to cull bombs at risk of exploding prematurely — and make the feedstock for a major isotope used in nuclear medicine.Published: Monday, September 21st, 2009Found in: Biomedicine, Physics, Science & Society and Technology -
The scientist who developed quark theory turns 80 today. To mark the occasion, Science News presents an extended interview with the physicist.Published: Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Physics -
A new study using a high-speed camera finds the shattering of solitary drips can produce a variety of sizes. (p. 12)Published: August 15th, 2009; Vol.176 #4Found in: Matter & Energy and Physics -
New studies reveal that a thick, soft plant expels its progeny in an unexpected way.Published: Friday, July 10th, 2009Found in: Botany, Life and Physics -
Scientists have found that electrons in a layer of carbon atoms can become a strongly interacting swirling soup.Published: Wednesday, July 8th, 2009Found in: Matter & Energy and Physics
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The existence of a small, elderly black hole places a new upper limit on the length of any extra dimension, a new study suggests. (p. 7)Published: August 1st, 2009; Vol.176 #3Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Physics -
Home / News / August 1st, 2009; Vol.176 #3 / Mass mismatch makes mystery for proton’s strange cousinAn exotic cousin of the proton is caught in action again. But its measured mass doesn’t match previous results. (p. 14)Published: August 1st, 2009; Vol.176 #3Found in: Matter & Energy and Physics -
Finding could lead to new technique for making tiny wires. (p. 14)Published: August 1st, 2009; Vol.176 #3Found in: Chemistry, Materials Science, Molecules and Physics -
Researchers study secrets of microbes' locomotion and how to mimic that movement. (p. 22)Published: July 4th, 2009; Vol.176 #1Found in: Biology and Physics -
Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Asia: One reason America can’t afford to jettison good teachersAsia appears to prize science and tech education far more than America does, and the result may be a waning of the West's economic and entrepreneurial dominance.Published: Wednesday, June 17th, 2009Found in: Computers, Education, Physics, Science & Society and Technology
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Scientists suggest a way to put ultracold atoms to work. (p. 14)Published: July 18th, 2009; Vol.176 #2Found in: Atom & Cosmos, Matter & Energy, Physics and Technology
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