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Magnetized Gas Points to New Physics
from ScienceNOW
It would be tough to stick it to your refrigerator, but an ultra-cold gas magnetizes itself just as do metals such as iron or nickel, a team of atomic physicists reports. That cool trick shows that the messy physics within solids can be modeled with pristine gases, the researchers say. But others are skeptical that the team has actually seen what they claim. Full Article
Monsters of the Deep
from The Economist
Trying to create giant rogue waves in a laboratory tank is very difficult. Therefore, researchers have started using microwaves rather than water waves to create a laboratory model. Full Article
Buffer Gas Cooling Could Open up the Field of Ultracold Physics
from PhysOrg
Researchers develop a way to cool a wide variety of atoms and molecules into Bose-Einstein condensates. Full Article
Artificial Cloud Created at the Edge of Space
from NewScientist
The study of Earth's mysterious noctilucent clouds got a boost when a rocket was launched to create an artificial cloud at the edge of space. "Noctilucent", or night-shining, clouds float dozens of kilometers higher than other clouds, at an altitude of about 80 kilometers. Because of their height, they can be seen glowing before sunrise or after sunset as the sun illuminates them from below the horizon. Full Article
How to Make Water Drops Bounce Off Each Other Like Beach Balls
from Discover Magazine
Physicists have found a way to tweak a basic law of nature, and have reversed the rule that opposites – as in oppositely charged droplets of liquid – attract. Typically, when a drop of liquid with a positive charge gets near to another drop with a negative charge, the two come together and merge into a larger whole. But researchers discovered that in a strong electric field with two highly charged droplets, the drops bounce off each other instead. Full Article
Telescope Picking Up Light from Earliest Universe
from The Times
The Planck observatory is picking up radiation from just 300,000 years after the big bang and could give the clearest picture yet of what the Universe looked like just after its formation. Full Article
Scientists Move Cells with Joystick
from Live Science
Biomedical research could someday look a lot like playing video games thanks to a new device that allows users to manipulate cells with the swerve of a joystick. Full Article
Black Holes Outperform Earth-bound Particle Colliders
from Computer Weekly
One day our descendants will reach the limit of particle accelerator technology. We'll surely run out of space and money long before the smallest building blocks of the universe can be probed with machines, because of the massive energies required. Full Article
Lunar Craters May Be Chilliest Spots in Solar System
from The New York Times
The shadowy craters near the south pole of the Moon may be the coldest places in the solar system, colder than even Pluto, NASA scientists reported Thursday as they unveiled some of the first findings from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. Full Article
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