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Hail the first sound ‘lasers’
2010/03/02
Two independent groups of physicists have unveiled the first phonon "lasers" – devices that emit coherent sound waves in much the same ways as lasers emit coherent light waves.
Physicsworld
World's First X-ray Laser Powers Up
2009/04/23
An x-ray laser may sound like something you'd only find in a James Bond movie, but scientists have made the device a reality. Today, physicists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, announced that they have coaxed test bea
ScienceNow
Spectral particles spook physicsts
2008/11/04
Unexplained 'ghost particles' are mysteriously appearing inside a US-based high-energy physics experiment. Bloggers and theorists are already lining up explanations that involve unseen particles, hypothetical strings, or modifications of conventional phys
Nature News
Eight-month delay for LHC
2008/10/21
Details of last month's accident at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's premier particle accelerator, are emerging — and confirm that the machine will not restart before late May or early June 2009.
Nature News
CERN announces start-up date for LHC
2008/08/11
CERN has today announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September.
Alphagalileo
Fermilab Cancels Layoffs
2008/07/03
Since December, scientists, engineers, technicians, and staff at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, have waited anxiously to find out who will be asked to leave in layoffs forced by an unexpected budget cut.
Sciencenow
Are there nuclear reactors at Earth's core?
2008/05/19
uclear reactors could be burning deep beneath the ground, two scientists have claimed. They say that uranium could become sufficiently concentrated at the base of Earth’s mantle to ignite self-sustained nuclear fission, as in a human-made reactor.
Nature News
Chemists spin a web of data
2008/05/08
A chemist running a computer server from his home is quietly solving one of his colleagues' biggest frustrations by providing the community with an open-access source of chemical information.
Nature News
Deflating inflation?
2008/04/17
A controversial analysis questions the standard model of the early universe. Could the Big Bang have come not at the beginning of the universe, but after a long, slow period of shrinkage?
Nature News
Bright hopes pervade dark matter
2008/03/06
Physicists have again returned empty-handed from a search for the 'dark matter' that is thought to fill the cosmos. But the latest null result hasn't dimmed their enthusiasm — or their plans for a new generation of detectors.
Nature news
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