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Super-photon: A Bose-Einstein condensate with practical potential

News: Quantum Physics    November 29, 2010
Illustrated super-photon….Credit: Jan Klaers, University of Bonn Is it time to start investing in Bose-Einstein condensates? They’re not dew drops, of course. Anything with ‘Einstein’ in it has got to be physics. So what kind of condensate is this, and what makes it (potentially) useful? The concept of Bose-Einstein condensates, often abbreviated BEC, was theorized [...]
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Nanobubbles are really slick

News: Nanotechnology    February 26, 2010
One thing nanotechnology can do, besides create new materials, is use some ‘old’ things in new ways. Take, for example, bubbles. Some bubbles are trapped air. Air repels water, or more specifically air and water don’t mix (immediately) so bubbles are formed. Thinking like a nanotechnologist: What if there were nano-sized bubbles trapped in a [...]
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Powerful X-Ray laser – powerful science

News: Scientific Instrumentation    November 4, 2009
Although sometimes lost in the background, many of the important breakthroughs in science are made possible by advances in scientific instrumentation. This is particularly and most obviously true for particle physics. For a while now, the big news in this area has been about the trials and tribulations of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in [...]
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