http://www.ccnmag.com Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:49:00 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/scientists_create_first_free-standing_3-d_cloak Researchers in the US have, for the first time, cloaked a three-dimensional object standing in free space, bringing the much-talked-about invisibility cloak one step closer to reality. CalTechNews Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:48:44 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/scientists_create_first_atomic_x-ray_laser Scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and opening the door to a new range of scientific disc CalTechNews Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:31:05 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/cooling_semiconductors_by_laser_light Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have combined two fields -- quantum physics and nano physics -- and this has led to the discovery of a new method for laser cooling semiconductor membranes CalTechNews Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:54:31 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/researcher_nears_creation_of_superlens A superlens would let you see a virus in a drop of blood and open the door to better and cheaper electronics. It might, says Durdu Guney, make ultra-high-resolution microscopes as commonplace as cameras in our cell phones CalTechNews Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:15:14 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/world_s_smallest_magnetic_data_storage_unit Scientists from IBM and the German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) have built the world's smallest magnetic data storage unit CalTechNews Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:08:36 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/multi-purpose_photonic_chip_paves_the_way_to_programmable_quantum_processors A multi-purpose optical chip which generates, manipulates and measures entanglement and mixture -- two quantum phenomena which are essential driving forces for tomorrow's quantum computers has been developed CalTechNews Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:19:57 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/world_s_lightest_material_created A team of researchers have developed the world's lightest material -- with a density of 0.9 mg/cc -- about one hundred times lighter than Styrofoam™. CalTechNews Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:20:18 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/super-black_material_opens_new_frontiers NASA engineers have produced a material that absorbs on average more than 99 percent of the ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and far-infrared light that hits it -- a development that promises to open new frontiers in space technology CalTechNews Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:30:30 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/new_hybrid_technology_could_bring_quantum_information_systems_ The merging of two technologies under development -- plasmonics and nanophotonics -- is promising the emergence of new "quantum information systems" far more powerful than today's computers CalTechNews Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:34:03 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/new_radar_sees_through_solid_walls The ability to see through walls is no longer the stuff of science fiction, thanks to new radar technology developed at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory CalTechNews Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:26:21 +0100