 'Plug and Play' Source of Single Photons March 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
A research group in the UK has crafted a source of single photons � photons emitted one by one � with a convenience and ease of use they liken to �plug and play� computer hardware devices. This is a key step ... | ||
 Sandia's Z machine creates ice in nanoseconds March 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 49 vote(s)
Sandia�s huge Z machine, which generates termperatures hottter than the sun, has turned water to ice in nanoseconds. However, don�t expect anything commercial just yet: the ice is hotter than the boiling point ... | ||
 Creating a nanoscale laser March 13, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
�Nowadays, people and companies want to try to make smaller and smaller integrated circuits. In order to do this, low-power optical devices, like lasers, are needed,� Tom Savels tells PhysOrg.com. Savels, ... | ||
 Thinking inside the box: Trapped light spurs quantum computing March 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
In 1927, Albert Einstein conceived of a box in which light was trapped and a single light particle, or photon, was released in a theoretical experiment to measure the relationship between mass and energy. | ||
 New form of matter-antimatter transformation observed for first time March 13, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
For the first time, scientists of the BaBar experiment at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have observed the transition of one type of particle, the neutral D-meson, into ... | ||
Physicists Modify Double-Slit Experiment to Confirm Einstein's Belief March 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 125 vote(s)
Work completed by physics professors at Rowan University shows that light is made of particles and waves, a finding that refutes a common belief held for about 80 years. | ||
Scientists develop new terahertz material March 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have created a device for manipulating terahertz (THz) radiation. The device could be the basis for novel electronics and photonics applications ranging from new imaging methods ... | ||
 Speed record for magnetic switching predicted March 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
Scientists of the Research Centre J�lich, Germany, have found a fundamentally new magnetic switching method which achieves the fastest speed ever reported by applying an external magnetic field. The re-sults ... | ||
Particle X in rare decay could belong to a new physics model March 07, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 92 vote(s)
A particle that may mediate the rare decay of a Sigma-plus hyperon appears to have close affiliations with a light Higgs boson found in one supersymmetric model�an interpretation suggesting unambiguous evidence for physics ... | ||
 Physicists Turn Rubidium Atom Into a Single-Photon Server March 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
Every time you switch on a light bulb, 10 to the power of 15 visible photons, the elementary particles of light, are illuminating the room in every second. If that is too many for you, light a candle. If that ... | ||
 Clemson rocket launches test Alaskan auroras March 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
It may have been 40 degrees below zero at the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska, but aurora and weather came together one recent winter night in a perfect match for Clemson University researchers and students ... | ||
New Spin Source Could Offer Insight Into Gravity March 06, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 93 vote(s)
�We have a situation in physics where we understand very well the quantum forces,� Clive Speake tells PhysOrg.com. �But gravity, as we understand it, is a problem.� | ||
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