Our results give us, for the first time, the possibility to understand the interaction between just two electrons placed next to each other in a carbon…
The robotic arm on Phoenix used the blade on its scoop to make 50 scrapes in the icy layer buried under subsurface soil. The robotic arm then heaped the…
This finding, announced at a workshop last month,* has attracted considerable interest because of its implications for future manufacturing. If the…
July’s edition of Physics World includes an in-depth feature by three Israeli researchers, Marianna Khorzov and David Andelman, from the School of Physics and…
Surprisingly enough, these so-called super atoms (clusters of 13 silver atoms, for example) behave in the same way as individual atoms and have opened up a…
Engineers working in optical communications bear more than a passing resemblance to dreamers chasing rainbows.They may not wish literally to capture all the…
But, according to UC Santa Barbara Physics Professor Steve Giddings, it's pure fiction.Giddings has co-authored a paper, “Astrophysical implications of…
SOHO’s record-breaking discovery was made late on 25 June. When it comes to comet catching, the SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory has one big advantage over…
In reality, they are the sounds that accompany the aurora. Now ESA’s Cluster mission is showing scientists how to understand this emission and, in the future,…
Canada is building the world's first space telescope designed to detect and track asteroids as well as satellites. Called NEOSSat (Near Earth Object…
“We are awash in chemistry data,” said Michael Hecht of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, lead scientist for the Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity…
The method is a variation of photoacoustic spectroscopy but overcomes a number of problems associated with this technique originally demonstrated by Alexander…
One of the proposed explanations–a massive asteroid impact–now has strong support from computer simulations carried out by two groups of researchers….
Was it sculpted by several small impacts, via mantle convection in the planet's interior, or by one giant impact? Now scientists at the California Institute of…
“This is much more than a theoretical exercise,” said Harley Johnson, a Cannon Faculty Scholar and professor of mechanical science and engineering at Illinois….
It has been designed to study novel nanoscale materials and devices aimed at, for example, harvesting solar energy more efficiently, providing more efficient…
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