Physics
New study traces moon evaporation and leads to questions about why Earth has so much water.
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Spintronic technology, in which data is processed on the basis of electron “spin” rather than charge, promises to revolutionize the computing industry with smaller, faster and more energy efficient data storage and processing.
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Using gravitational “lenses” in space, University of Utah astronomers discovered that the centers of the biggest galaxies are growing denser – evidence of repeated collisions and mergers by massive galaxies with 100 billion stars.
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David J. Wineland, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics. The honor is NIST’s fourth Nobel prize in physics in the past 15 years.
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University of Adelaide applied mathematicians have extended Einstein's theory of special relativity to work beyond the speed of light.
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One of the unsolved mysteries of contemporary science is how highly organized structures can emerge from the random motion of particles.
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Engineers at The University of Texas at Dallas have used advanced techniques to make the material graphene small enough to read DNA.
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A technique that uses acoustic waves to sort cells on a chip may create miniature medical analytic devices that could make Star Trek's tricorder seem a bit bulky in comparison, according to a team of researchers.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's JASPER gas gun has fired its 100th shot.
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Imagine a clock that will keep perfect time forever, even after the heat-death of the universe. This is the “wow” factor behind a device known as a “space-time crystal.”
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An international team led by University of Toronto physicists has developed a simple new technique to induce high-temperature superconductivity in a semiconductor for the first time - using Scotch Tape.
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Since the mid-20th century, the standard photodetector in high-energy physics has been the photomultiplier tube....
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