Monday, May 23, 2011

Large Hadron Collider smashes another record

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Enlarge "Last night, a symbolic frontier was crossed,"said Michel Spiro, president of the board of the European Organisation for N...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Long-standing question about swimming in elastic liquids, answered

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Paulo Arratia, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics, along with student Xiaoning Shen, conducted the experime...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

'Kinks' in tiny chains reveal Brownian rotation

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Enlarge Biswal, an assistant professor in chemical and biomolecular engineering, said it's easy to view microscopic rods as they wiggle ...
Friday, May 20, 2011

AMS is ready to discover the particle universe

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Enlarge Cosmic rays are high-energy particles that shoot through space close to the speed of light. The newly installed Alpha Magnetic Spect...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

'Critical baby step' taken for spying life on a molecular scale

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In a study published today, Thursday, 19 May, in the Institute of Physics and the German Physical Society's New Journal of Physics , res...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Some particles are able to flow up small waterfalls, physicists show

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Enlarge With just a small bit of research, the team was able to show what seems to be counterintuitive; that it truly is possible for some p...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Physicists accelerate simulations of thin film growth

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Enlarge Jacques Amar, Ph.D., professor of physics at the University of Toledo (UT), studies the modeling and growth of materials at the atom...