News articles tagged with 'physicist'
An icy gaze into the Big Bang
— 19 Mar 2011 14:29 | PhysicsScientists of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Innsbruck, Austria, have reached a milestone in the exploration of quantum gas mixtures. In an international…
Quantum simulator becomes accessible to the world
— 24 Feb 2011 18:53 | PhysicsExperimental physicists have put a lot of effort in isolating sensitive measurements from the disruptive influences of the environment. In an international first, Austrian quantum physicists…
Physicists build bigger 'bottles' of antimatter to unlock nature's secrets
— 19 Feb 2011 10:27 | PhysicsOnce regarded as the stuff of science fiction, antimatter - the mirror image of the ordinary matter in our observable universe - is now the focus of laboratory studies around the world…
Scientists build world's first anti-laser
— 18 Feb 2011 17:56 | TechnologyMore than 50 years after the invention of the laser, scientists at Yale University have built the world's first anti-laser, in which incoming beams of light interfere with one another…
First evidence for a spherical magnesium-32 nucleus
— 3 Feb 2011 17:30 | PhysicsElements heavier than iron come into being only in powerful stellar explosions, supernovae. During nuclear reactions all kinds of short-lived atomic nuclei are formed, including more…
Physicists take new look at the atom
— 26 Jan 2011 19:13 | PhysicsMeasuring the attractive forces between atoms and surfaces with unprecedented precision, University of Arizona physicists have produced data that could refine our understanding of the…
Scientists unveil unexpected properties in superconducting material
— 21 Jan 2011 20:23 | PhysicsIn 2008, an international team of scientists studying an exotic new superconductor based on the element ytterbium reported that it displays unusual properties that could change how…
Wave-generated 'white hole' boosts hawking radiation theory: UBC research
— 18 Jan 2011 16:17 | PhysicsA team of UBC physicists and engineers have designed a experiment featuring a trough of flowing water to help bolster a 35-year-old theory proposed by eminent physicist Stephen Hawking…
Study probes link between magnetism, superconductivity
— 14 Dec 2010 20:15 | PhysicsEuropean and U.S. physicists this week are offering up the strongest evidence yet that magnetism is the driving force behind unconventional superconductivity. The findings by researchers…
Rice physicists discover ultrasensitive microwave detector
— 9 Dec 2010 17:06 | PhysicsPhysicists from Rice University and Princeton University have discovered how to use one of the information technology industry's mainstay materials - gallium arsenide semiconductors…