Physics News
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 08:22:39 pm
It may not be intuitive, but a coating of reflective metal can actually make something less visible, engineers at Stanford and UPenn have shown. They have created an invisible, light-detecting device that can "see without being seen."
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 11:13:40 pm
A scientific ghost town in the heart of southeastern New Mexico oil and gas country will hum with the latest next-generation technology -- but no people
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 06:03:22 am
Ultra fast, robust, stable, and high precision: these are some of the characteristics of a new laser developed by an international research team
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 08:10:24 am
Scientists at TU Delft's Kavli Institute and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM Foundation) have succeeded for the first time in detecting a Majorana particle
Posted on March 26, 2012 at 07:56:39 am
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory's biggest magnet facility have just met the grand challenge of producing magnetic fields in excess of 100 tesla while conducting six different experiments
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 09:28:48 pm
The United States' National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California has fired the most powerful laser in history, a record-breaking 2-megajoule shot
Posted on March 08, 2012 at 08:03:03 am
Thanks to research performed at the University of Pittsburgh, a physical basis for terahertz bandwidth (THz, or 1 trillion cycles per second) -- the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum between infrared and microwave light -- has now been demonstrated
Posted on February 24, 2012 at 08:45:32 am
Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered the means by which a polymer known as PVDF enables capacitors to store and release large amounts of energy quickly
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 09:36:30 am
Nearly 13.7 billion years ago, the universe was made of only hydrogen, helium and traces of lithium -- byproducts of the Big Bang. Some 300 million years later, the very first stars emerged, creating additional chemical elements throughout the universe
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 08:35:51 pm
The smallest transistor ever built -- in fact, the smallest transistor that can be built -- has been created using a single phosphorus atom by an international team of researchers at the University of New South Wales, Purdue University and the University
