Physical Sciences

World's Smallest Transistor Revealed

exciting features from carbon-nanotube, single-electron and molecular electronics, all in one." ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2007 - 1:43pm

Fingerprinting The Milky Way

what we had found for two other groups of stars." But this is not all. A comparison with the open ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 22 2007 - 11:19am

Improving Wine- Keep The Ladybugs Out

that were most responsible for the characteristic ladybug odor. All of the chemicals belong to a class ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2007 - 11:10am

Did Intergalactic Pollution Create Life?

"Based on this one measurement, quasars can contribute some but not all of the metals to the ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 20 2007 - 12:27pm

Does Peer-reviewed Mean Better Quality?

international peer review. All contributors to the conference report agreed that peer review is an essential ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2007 - 1:26pm

Quantum Effects In Photosynthesis- Think Outside The Bun

antenna and a molecule called the Reaction Center, where all the chemistry in energy transfer takes place, ...

Article - News Staff - May 2 2007 - 11:45am

Adaptive Optics Leads The Way To Supermassive Black Holes

merger. "With the infrared images we got at Keck, we were able to line up the information from all ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2007 - 10:22pm

Detecting Plants On Other Planets

information coded in a way that allows the ability to transfer information. We’ve got proteins that do all of ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2007 - 1:05pm

Rethinking 70 Years Of Physics- The New 'Look' Of Superconductivity

tubular, phase in all of these sample shapes, and we don’t have the Landau phase at all,” he said. “So it’s ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2007 - 10:19am

Physicist Shows "Normal" Rules Don't Apply To Some Unstable Elements

universe. After all, even common elements such as gold and lead had to come from somewhere.” ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2007 - 1:20pm