News articles tagged with 'atom' (Page 34)
IBM and Imago find a crucial difficulty in semiconductor device scaling
— 7 Sep 2007 14:42 | PhysicsIn 1959, Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman presented a talk entitled 'There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.' Feynman concluded that there was no physical reason why humans couldn't…
Physicists establish spooky quantum communication
— 6 Sep 2007 16:07 | PhysicsPhysicists at the University of Michigan have coaxed two separate atoms to communicate with a sort of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein called 'spooky.' In doing so, the researchers…
Explosive crystal
— 24 Aug 2007 19:04 | Chemistry300 years after its discovery, the crystal structure and molecular structure of mercury fulminate are determined. Known to the alchemists and long used as a detonator to set off dynamite…
All change at the Earths core
— 16 Aug 2007 16:58 | Geology and palaeontologyIt is hard to know what is going on over 3000 km beneath our feet, but until recently scientists were fairly confident that they understood the way the iron atoms in the Earth's core…
Earth and Mars are different to the core
— 28 Jun 2007 15:57 | AstronomyResearch comparing silicon samples from Earth, meteorites and planetary materials, published in Nature (28 June 2007), provides new evidence that the Earth's core formed under very…