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Chemistry World October 25, 2007 Jonathan Edwards |
Nanotube Gives Ultimate Force Measurement US researchers have pushed chemical force microscopy (CFM) to its ultimate limit by measuring the interaction of a single functional group with a carbon nanotube. |
Chemistry World October 24, 2007 James Mitchell Crow |
Drip Line Slips Away Researchers have squeezed 29 neutrons into an atom of aluminum, bringing into doubt current theories which predicted that it would be too unstable to exist. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Saswato R. Das |
Military Experiments Target the Van Allen Belts The US armed forces will test whether RF injections into the ionosphere could halt geomagnetic storms. |
Wired October 23, 2007 Erin Biba |
Harvard Physicist Plays Magician With the Speed of Light Lene Vestergaard Hau can stop a pulse of light in midflight, start it up again at 0.13 miles per hour, and then make it appear in a completely different location. |
Science News October 20, 2007 Julie Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: The Ignobility of Wrinkles A mathematician and physicist working together won an Ig Nobel Prize for the study of rumpled sheets: Despite the light-heartedness of the prize, the team's work has been in earnest. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Morgen E. Peck |
Geneva Vote Will Use Quantum Cryptography A system that produces unbreakable encryption based on the quantum properties of light will be used to secure the electronic transmission of votes in a Swiss election next week. |
PC Magazine October 10, 2007 Anton Galang |
Computing Sees the Light Imagine a CPU clocked at a few hundred terahertz. Physicists are close to making this happen. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Morgen E. Peck |
Physicists Figure Out How Microscopic Wires Fail The culprit? Kinks caused by nanometer-scale avalanches. |
Chemistry World October 11, 2007 Ananyo Bhattacharya |
Exclusive Interview: EPSRC's New Chief Executive, David Delpy UK chemists have been too content to 'fill the gaps' instead of tackling big, exciting problems. That's the view of medical physicist David Delpy, who recently started work as the chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. |
Chemistry World October 9, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Science Behind Your Hard Drive Scoops Physics Nobel The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Frenchman Albert Fert and German Peter Grunberg, for their discovery of giant magnetoresistance. |
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