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Novel state of matter
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University of Chicago physicists have created a novel state of matter using nothing more than a container of loosely packed sand and a falling marble. They have found that the impacting marble produces a jet of sand grains that briefly behaves like a special type of dense fluid.
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Hidden Unity
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In recent years, researchers have developed astonishing new insights into a hidden unity between the motion of objects in space and that of the smallest particles.
It turns out there is an almost perfect parallel between the mathematics describing celestial mechanics and the mathematics gove...
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KamLAND
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Adapted from New scientist article
EARTH'S natural radioactivity has been measured for the first time using the Kamioka Liquid Scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector (KamLAND). The measurement will help geologists find out to what extent nuclear decay is responsible for the immense q...
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G-Zero experiment
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An international team of nuclear physicists has determined that particles called strange quarks do, indeed, contribute to the ordinary properties of the proton.
Quarks are subatomic particles that form the building blocks of atoms. How quarks assemble into protons and neutrons, and what h...
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Theory and hypothesis
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Quantum Spin
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Physicists now have found a way to manipulate the spin of an electron with a jolt of voltage from a battery.
In a new study, Richard Warburton, a physicist with Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, applied voltage to an electron in a quantum dot (which is a tiny, nanometre-sized semi...
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Geneva agreement.
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India and the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, popularly known as CERN, have signed a Statement of Intent under which the existing scientific and technical cooperation between India and Nuclear Centre would be further extended.
The Statement of Intent was sig...
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zinc-54
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An international team of nuclear physicists has created zinc-54 for the first time. They have confirmed that it can undergo two-proton decay, a rare process that has only been seen in one other isotope before. The results should shed more light on how protons are bound together in the nucleus.
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Self-replicating robots
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Self-replicating robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction.
Scientists at the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York have created small robots that can build copies of themselves.
Each robot consists of several 10-cm cubes which have identical machinery, electromagnets to attach a...
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Spontaneous Ignition Discovery
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In a paper scheduled to appear in the May 18 2005 print issue of the American Chemical Society's Energy & Fuels, Zhiyu Hu proposes a highly efficient method to convert chemicals into thermal energy and to achieve spontaneous ignition and sustained combustion at room temperature.
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