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Bright future for photonics
August 24, 2012
Optical fibres that change the wavelength – and therefore colour – of light have been developed by physicists at the University of Bath.A fibre drawing tower uses a precisely controlled...
Quantum dot moves to redefine ampere
August 15, 2012
A pump which picks electrons up one-by-one and moves them across a barrier to create a well-defined electrical current has been developed by National Physical Laboratory and University of Cambridge...
Returning bumblebees to Britain’s countryside
August 10, 2012
Bumble bees are important for pollination of plants and crops, but certain species are threatened with extinction due to habitat loss. For some – like the short-haired bumble bee –...
Explosive solar activity imaged
August 3, 2012
New images of an upward surge of the Sun’s gases into a coronal loop have helped scientists move closer towards understanding the origin of space storms.Meanwhile the UK Government Office...
Physics of the thixotropic solution
July 20, 2012
Corn flour and water – it’s a non-Newtonian fluid - but exactly how does it work? This is a question that physicists from the University of Chicago have attempted to...
Milky Way to collide with Andromeda
July 16, 2012
The Milky Way looks set to collide with neighbouring galaxy Andromeda – but not for another four billion years.NASA astronomers predict the Sun will be flung into a new region...
Under construction: new search engine
July 13, 2012
A new type of search engine which draws its results from sensors based in the physical world is being developed by a team of European researchers.SMART – Search engine for...
Splitting the unsplittable atom
July 9, 2012
Researchers in Germany have split the unsplittable and separated a single atom into two halves, pulling it apart and putting it back together again.The laws of quantum mechanics allow objects...
New particle consistent with Higgs found
July 4, 2012
A new particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson has been observed by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN.Both ATLAS and CMS see a strong indication for the presence...
Exploring the world under our feet with Paul Younger
May 3, 2012
One scientist plays Indiana Jones to explore the world beneath our feetPaul Younger has photographed some of the most exceptional rocks on the planet – including some of the very...
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