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Searching In features, blog entries, column entries & news items, Under the topic Matter & Energy
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Physicists have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, including two strange quarks. Its existence further validates the standard model of particle physics.Published: Thursday, September 4th, 2008Found in: Matter & Energy -
A new paper suggests the possibility that the behavior of electrons in quantum systems could verify Riemann’s famous conjecture about prime numbers.Published: Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Found in: Matter & Energy -
By identifying a new way to wrestle fluorine from carbon compounds, chemists may now be able to break down certain types of greenhouse gases before they reach the atmosphere.Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2008Found in: Matter & Energy -
The chemical bisphenol A may raise the risk of heart attacks and type 2 diabetes by suppressing a protective hormone.Published: September 13th, 2008; Vol.174 #6Found in: Biomedicine, Body & Brain, Chemistry and Environment -
Removing carbon dioxide from smokestacks and storing it permanently is one of the possible solutions to global warming, but remains expensive to do. A new technique could make carbon sequestration economical on a large scale, while producing useful materials on the side.Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2008Found in: Chemistry, Environment and Science & Society
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In sifting through the ashes of a short-lived subatomic particle called the kaon, physicists are slowly accumulating new hints that the theory of elementary particles might one day have to be modified.Published: Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Found in: Matter & Energy and Physics -
A panel of scientists involved in the anthrax investigations released new details.Published: September 13th, 2008; Vol.174 #6Found in: Biology, Chemistry and Science & Society
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Math Trek: If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove.Published: Friday, August 15th, 2008Found in: Mathematics and Physics -
A new study suggests that a surprising number of universes, even those with laws of physics different from those in our universe, can still support stars.Published: September 13th, 2008; Vol.174 #6Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Physics
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The number of coastal areas known as dead zones is on the rise. A new tally reports more than 400 of the oxygen starved regions worldwide.Published: Thursday, August 14th, 2008Found in: Agriculture, Chemistry, Climate Change and Ecology -
God doesn’t play dice, Einstein said in his critique of quantum theory. But any alternative theory to quantum mechanics would require certain quantum events to influence each other 10,000 times faster than the speed of light, physicists have shown.Published: Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Found in: Physics
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Two new studies take steps toward practical materials that can bend light backward, which could lead to invisibility cloaks.Published: August 30th, 2008; Vol.174 #5Found in: Matter & Energy -
Trying to grow better, longer nanotubes, researchers accidentally discover a new type of carbon filament, colossal carbon tubes, which are tens of thousands of times thicker.Published: August 30th, 2008; Vol.174 #5Found in: Matter & Energy -
At high pressures, inner electrons begin to affect the structure of lithium.Published: Friday, August 1st, 2008Found in: Matter & Energy -
Quantum encryption is here, but the laws of physics can do much more than protect privacy.Published: August 16th, 2008; Vol.174 #4Found in: Mathematics, Matter & Energy and Molecules
