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Chemistry World December 18, 2006 Philip Ball |
Ice Crystals Trapped Inside Nanotubes At this time of year there are reminders everywhere of the beautiful structures that water can form when it freezes. But the ice crystals predicted in computer simulations by Xiao Cheng Zeng and colleagues are as striking as any snowflake. |
Scientific American December 18, 2006 Graham P. Collins |
Kim's Big Fizzle The Physics Behind A Nuclear Dud: The North Koreans produced some kind of a nuclear damp squib. What could have gone wrong depends on the nuclear fuel used. |
Chemistry World December 6, 2006 Lionel Milgrom |
Surf's up for Unstable Electron Beams Controlling short high-energy bursts of plasma electrons is difficult. But now physicists in France have managed it, using a laser to inject electrons into the wake of a plasma wave created from a jet of helium gas. |
Chemistry World November 27, 2006 Simon Hadlington |
Getting the Dope on a Single Atom of Dopant Scientists have successfully probed the electronic and quantum mechanical properties of a single atom of dopant in a silicon transistor. The research could provide important information necessary for the development of quantum computers. |
Science News November 25, 2006 |
Science Safari: Snow Crystals A Web site, created by a physicist, provides an introduction to the physics of snowflake formation, information on growing snowflakes, and ideas for snow and ice activities. |
Chemistry World November 20, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Microscopy Enters the Fourth Dimension Researchers have taken electron microscopy into the fourth dimension, by recording atoms darting around on a surface in real time. |
Chemistry World November 15, 2006 Michael Gross |
Nanoribbons Put Electrons in a Spin A small ribbon made of the carbon honeycomb pattern found in graphite and nanotubes could display intriguing electronic properties and serve as a material for spin-based electronics (spintronics), researchers have predicted. |
Chemistry World November 3, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Antimatter Cancer Treatment Researchers working at Cern's particle accelerator laboratory have just reported a successful first experiment into the biological effects of antiproton radiation on living cells. A US biotech firm already owns the intellectual property rights on the development of an antiproton clinic. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Monte Ross |
The New Search for E.T. If extraterrestrials are trying to communicate with us, they're probably using lasers, not radio waves. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Kieron Murphy |
Q&A: Paul G. Richards, Nuclear Arms Seismologist An interview with the Mellon Professor of the Natural Sciences at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University on the science of detecting and measuring nuclear weapons test explosions. |
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