Physics

  1. Materials Science

    Plastic Chips: New materials boost organic electronics

    A new class of electrically conducting organic molecules provides researchers with improved materials with which to fabricate plastic electronic devices.

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  2. Physics

    Hydrogen hoops give superfluid clues

    Tiny rings of hydrogen molecules show signs of possible superfluid behavior, suggesting that helium might not be the only superfluid after all.

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  3. Physics

    Electrons get a crack at the nucleus

    As long suspected but never before shown, electrons orbiting an atom can directly excite the atom's nucleus.

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  4. Materials Science

    Titanium makes move toward mainstream

    Inventors of a new process for producing titanium claim that their method can reduce the metal's cost to one-third its current price.

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  5. Physics

    Most-Wanted Particle Appears, Perhaps

    Hints of the Higgs boson—the crucial and last undetected fundamental particle predicted by the central theory of particle physics—have cropped up at a particle collider in Switzerland just as the machine is slated to be dismantled to make room for a more powerful collider.

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  6. Physics

    Icy telescope spots hot neutrinos

    The first sky map from an innovative neutrino telescope indicates that the instrument works properly and is poised to find never-before-seen signals from the universe's most violent events.

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  7. Physics

    Electric Foam: Scientists uncover basis of material oddball

    Specially treated polypropylene foam can mimic the defining behavior and other desirable properties of ceramic piezoelectric materials, which generate electric signals when squeezed.

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  8. Physics

    Gluing building blocks with geometry

    Using blocks with simple shapes, researchers have found ways to construct strong panels with no fasteners securing most of the blocks.

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  9. Materials Science

    Layered Approach

    A decade-old method for creating thin coatings is poised to move from the lab to countless low- and high-tech products.

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  10. Materials Science

    Worm’s Jaws Show Mettle: Zinc links may inspire new materials

    New analyses of the jaws of marine worms may lead scientists to better ways of making synthetic materials.

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  11. Physics

    Fast Findings on Fluid Frenzy: Taking turbulence models to a new level

    A new way to simulate turbulence by including some of the microscopic, molecular properties of fluids is influencing automobile design and may soon affect many other fields.

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  12. Physics

    Antiglare eye black is better than tape

    Black grease that athletes smear under their eyes to control the glare of the sun really helps them discern contrast; what's more, it works better than black tape, a newer antiglare aid.

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