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Quark-like confinement seen in the lab Physics World Share    
Particle-like entities in a magnetic crystal are confined to form composite particles just as quarks are bound together within protons and neutrons, according to experiments done by physicists in Germany and the U.K. The ability to observe spinon confinement within a controllable condensed-matter system could improve our current qualitative understanding of quark confinement in particle physics. More
Large Hadron Collider roars to life The Los Angeles Times Share
The much-delayed, problem-plagued European Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, is finally beginning to show off the technological muscle that is expected to produce some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 21st century. More Welcome to the high-carbon future NewScientist Share
As we learn to shape carbon on the nanoscale -- into tubes and sheets, balls and ribbons -- entirely new and unexpected vistas are opening up. The carbon atoms that were forged in the furnace of the universe's stars can be woven together into materials suitable for a host of applications from semiconducting circuitry to superconductors to solar energy collectors. More In the brain, seven is a magic number MinnPost.com Share
Having a tough time recalling a phone number someone spoke a few minutes ago or forgetting items from a mental grocery list is not a sign of mental decline; in fact, it's natural. Countless psychological experiments have shown that, on average, the longest sequence a normal person can recall on the fly contains about seven items. Click here to access the APS journal paper. More Major eruption cooled the climate but went unnoticed ScienceNews Share
A large, previously unknown volcanic eruption somewhere in the tropics helped make the 1810s the coldest decade of the past 500 years, a new analysis suggests. Scientists have long known about the 1815 eruption of Indonesia's Mount Tambora, an eruption whose climate-cooling effect was so large that 1816 is often called "the year without a summer." More
Splitting time from space - new quantum theory challenges Einstein's spacetime Scientific American Share
Was Newton right and Einstein wrong? It seems that unzipping the fabric of spacetime and harking back to 19th-century notions of time could lead to a theory of quantum gravity. Physicists have struggled to marry quantum mechanics with gravity for decades. In contrast, the other forces of nature have obediently fallen into line. Click here and here to access the APS journal papers. More A new spin on electronics ScienceNOW Share
You're reading this story on a computer whose chips shift tiny packets of electric charge through circuits etched in the ubiquitous semiconductor silicon. But some physicists aim to develop a whole new technology called "spintronics" that would encode information in the directions in which electrons spin as well. More Rainbow trapped for the first time NewScientist Share
Oh, to catch a rainbow. Well, it's been done for the first time ever – and with just a simple lens and a plate of glass at that. The technique could be used to store information using light, a boon for optical computing and telecommunications. More How to mix oil and water ScienceNews Share
Scientists in Belgium have uncovered a new way to shake things up. Violent bouncing of a water droplet coated with oil causes the oil layer to move inside and fracture into many oily globs. In a paper published in the December Chaos, researchers at the University of Liege in Belgium call this microemulsion of oil and water the mayonnaise droplet. More |
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