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Public Release: 26-Jan-2010
 Optics ExpressStacking the deck: Single photons observed at seemingly faster-than-light speeds Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute can speed up photons to seemingly faster-than-light speeds through a stack of materials by adding a single, strategically placed layer. Contact: Ben Stein
Public Release: 18-Jan-2010
Nature NanotechnologyEuropean collaboration makes breakthrough in developing super-material graphene A collaborative research project has brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based. Researchers across Europe, including the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL), have demonstrated how an incredible material, graphene, could hold the key to the future of high-speed electronics, such as micro-chips and touchscreen technology. Contact: David Lewis
Public Release: 8-Jan-2010
Fermilab's NOvA CollaborationNeutrino data to flow in 2010; NOvA scientists tune design Physicists may see data by late summer from a prototype for a $278 million NOvA neutrino experiment that can yield clues to the universe's mysteries. Construction is underway on a 220-ton "integration prototype" detector and a larger 14,000-ton detector, a project of Fermilab and University of Minnesota. About 40 scientists will fine-tune design Jan. 8-10 at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, their first meeting since the US Department of Energy's October approval of "full construction start." 
US Department of Energy
Contact: Kim Cobb
Public Release: 6-Jan-2010
Iowa State physicists beginning to see data from the Large Hadron Collider Iowa State University physicists are starting to see real data from the Large Hadron Collider, the planet's biggest science experiment. But, said Chunhui Chen, an Iowa State assistant professor of physics and astronomy, it will still take years of study before the collider produces new, Nobel-winning physics.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Soeren Prell
Public Release: 6-Jan-2010
NatureScientists reveal Milky Way's magnetic attraction An international research project involving the University of Adelaide has revealed that the magnetic field in the center of the Milky Way is at least 10 times stronger than the rest of the galaxy. Contact: Dr. Roland Crocker
Public Release: 15-Dec-2009
Queen Mary scientists shed light on a mysterious particle Physicists at Queen Mary, University of London, have begun looking deep into the Earth to study some of nature's weirdest particles -- neutrinos. Contact: Simon Levey
Public Release: 14-Dec-2009
Theorists propose a new way to shine -- and a new kind of star Physicists propose there may be a new stage for some dying stars. Dubbed electroweak stars, they are fueled by the conversion of quarks to leptons, which prevents or staves off collapse into a black hole. Contact: Kevin Mayhood
Public Release: 9-Dec-2009
Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- December 2009 Titanium dioxide can be converted into a material that absorbs sunlight and greatly increase the efficiency of solar energy cells. Coated particle fuel fabricated at ORNL, in cooperation with INL, General Atomics, and the Babcock & Wilcox Company, has set a world record for advanced high temperature gas-cooled reactor fuel. Electronic devices of the future may benefit from a fundamental discovery that allows researchers to customize the electronic properties of complex materials. Contact: Ron Walli
Public Release: 7-Dec-2009
Physical Review DHunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search New high-energy particle research by a team working with data from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory heightens uncertainty about the exact nature of a key theoretical component of modern physics -- the massive fundamental particle, the Higgs boson. Particle collision data resulting in two leptons helped improve measurements of the mass of the heavy subatomic top quark, which bears on the Higgs, says physicist Robert Kehoe at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, who led the team.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Kim Cobb
Public Release: 7-Dec-2009
NatureCosmic rays hunted down Nearly 100 years after the discovery of cosmic rays, a new type of gamma ray telescope is finally allowing physicists to make images of sites of cosmic ray acceleration. Contact: Diana Lutz
Public Release: 29-Nov-2009
Nature PhysicsSpinons -- confined like quarks The concept of confinement is one of the central ideas in modern physics. The most famous example is that of quarks which bind together to form protons and neutrons. Now Prof. Bella Lake from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin together with an international team of scientists report for the first time an experimental realization and a proof of confinement phenomenon observed in a condensed matter system.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Professor Bella Lake
Public Release: 24-Nov-2009
ScienceChemists get custom-designed microscopic particles to self-assemble in liquid crystal Chemists and physicists have succeeded in getting custom-shaped particles to interact and assemble in a controlled way in a liquid crystal. The research is reported in the journal Science.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Stuart Wolpert
Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
Physical Review LettersFlipping a photonic shock wave Physicists at Zhejiang University in China and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a new metamaterial structure that successfully demonstrates reverse Cerenkov radiation. Contact: James Riordon
Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
51st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma PhysicsUpping the power triggers an ordered helical plasma If you keep twisting a straight elastic string, at some moment it starts kinking in a wild way. Contact: Saralyn Stewart
Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
51st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma PhysicsResearchers use trident laser to accelerate protons to record energies An international team of physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory has succeeded in using intense laser light to accelerate protons to energies never before achieved. Using this technique, scientists can now accelerate particles to extremely high velocities that would otherwise only be possible using large accelerator facilities. Physicists around the world are examining laser particle acceleration and laser produced radiation for potential future uses in cancer treatment. Contact: Saralyn Stewart
Public Release: 27-Oct-2009
Nature NanotechnologyUniversity of Cincinnati researchers create all-electric spintronics Scientists have always attempted to develop spin transistors by incorporating local ferromagnets into device architectures. A far better and practical way to manipulate the orientation of an electron's spin would be by using purely electrical means. A team of researchers led by the University of Cincinnati's Philippe Debray and Marc Cahay is the first to find an innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Wendy Beckman
Public Release: 20-Oct-2009
JOMNew material could boost data storage, save energy North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far exceeding the storage capacities of today's computer memory systems.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 12-Oct-2009
Physical Review LettersGrowing geodesic carbon nanodomes Studying the formation of nanoscopic carbon geodesic domes offers insight into the growth of graphene sheets, and may lead to compact, efficient circuitry. Contact: James Riordon
Public Release: 5-Oct-2009
Physical Review JournalsBuilding a better qubit The qubits that carry quantum information are typically fragile, but a new method of combing six photons leads to robust qubits that are immune to many of the affects that threaten to scramble quantum data. Contact: James Riordon
Public Release: 5-Oct-2009
Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and BeamsPhysicists seek to keep next-gen colliders in 1 piece Controlling huge electromagnetic forces that have the potential to destroy the next generation of particle accelerators is the subject of a new paper by a University of Manchester physicist. Contact: Alex Waddington
Public Release: 2-Oct-2009
Science ExpressHeart of a galaxy emits gamma rays The H.E.S.S. telescope system detects high-energy rays from the starburst region of a galactic system outside the Milky Way. Contact: Dr. Gertrud Hönes
Public Release: 29-Sep-2009
Spallation Neutron Source first of its kind to reach megawatt power The US Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source, already the world's most powerful facility for pulsed neutron scattering science, is now the first pulsed spallation neutron source to break the one-megawatt barrier. Contact: Bill Cabage
Public Release: 21-Sep-2009
Physical Review LettersA tiny, tunable well of light, and a string theorist's toolbox This week in Physics: Photonic devices promise advances in applications ranging from computing to high-speed communication; and a new toolkit of equations will help theorists determine whether a potential agreement between particle physics and string theory is fact or fancy. Contact: James Riordon
Public Release: 17-Sep-2009
Smaller isn't always better: Catalyst simulations could lower fuel cell cost Imagine a car that runs on hydrogen from solar power and produces water instead of carbon emissions. While vehicles like this won't be on the market anytime soon, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are making incremental but important strides in the fuel cell technology that could make clean cars a reality.
3M, US Department of Energy
Contact: Dane Morgan
Public Release: 17-Sep-2009
American-made SRF cavity makes the grade The US Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility marked a step forward in the field of advanced particle accelerator technology with the successful test of the first US-built superconducting radiofrequency niobium cavity to meet the exacting specifications of the proposed International Linear Collider.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Kandice Carter
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