News articles tagged with 'physicist'
New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene
— 18 Nov 2009 09:30 | TechnologyFirst, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene:... — full story
Atoms don't dance the 'Bose Nova'
— 3 Sep 2009 18:00 | PhysicsHanns-Christoph Naegerl's research group has investigated how ultracold quantum gases behave in lower spatial dimensions. They successfully realised an exotic state, where, due to the... — full story
Breakthrough in bubble research at Bath
— 2 Sep 2009 17:00 | PhysicsA researcher from the University of Bath has found a new approach to an old geometric problem of modelling the most efficient way of packing shapes to form a foam... — full story
QUIET team to deploy new gravity-wave probe in June
— 16 May 2009 13:37 | PhysicsA tiny fraction of a second following the big bang, the universe allegedly experienced the most inflationary period it has ever known. During this inflationary era, space expanded faster... — full story
Iron-arsenic superconductors in class of their own
— 1 May 2009 15:14 | PhysicsPhysicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have experimentally demonstrated that the superconductivity mechanism in the recently-discovered iron-arsenide superconductors... — full story
Physicists engineer the picture-perfect classical atom
— 14 Apr 2009 10:20 | PhysicsPicture the textbook atom. It would resemble a miniature solar system - an atomic nucleus orbited by electrons, drawn in nice tidy elliptical orbits - like planets orbiting the Sun.... — full story
From three to four: a quantum leap in few-body physics
— 7 Apr 2009 13:33 | PhysicsIn 2007 and 2008 two groups of theoretical physicists (Hammer and Platter, and von Stecher, D'Incao, and Greene) predicted the existence of universal four-body states that are closely... — full story
Cardiff researchers could herald a new era in fundamental physics
— 4 Feb 2009 13:58 | PhysicsCardiff University researchers who are part of a British-German team searching the depths of space to study gravitational waves, may have stumbled on one of the most important discoveries... — full story
Physicists propose model froth system
— 6 Jun 2008 17:39 | PhysicsTo see the latest science of type-I superconductors, look no further than the froth on a morning cup of cappuccino. A team of U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory physicists... — full story
Scientist examines the physics of carbon nanotubes
— 27 May 2008 11:32 | PhysicsCarbon nanotubes, described as the reigning celebrity of the advanced materials world, are all the rage. Recently researchers at Rice University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute... — full story