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American physicists have developed a very handy device with enough sensitivity to record magnetic fields from electrical signals in the brain. With a small cell covered…
According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, a flying clock will tick more slowly than a stationary clock. And that is true, an international research group cla…
Time magazine (USA) has just released the list of 2007's best inventions. It is not surprising that the music player - iPhone integrated mobile phone is the champion.
Materials science researchers in the UK and Germany have developed a new electron microscopy technique that enables the creation of electron diffraction images from a ma…
American and British physicists have for the first time measured these fluctuations in antiferromagnetic materials and surprisingly found them at low temperatures. This…
It could be called Harry Porter's invisibility sleeve. New calculations have found a way to create an electromagnetic
Shining light on an object to reduce its temperature seems a rather strange way, but laser cooling is frequently used in physics, especially to create super-cold samples…
In recent years, physicists have realized that fermions (such as electrons) can exhibit superfluidity because of their ability to pair at very low temperatures. Now, a g…
Up to 90% of the world's population has little access to basic products and services. Half of them, about 3 billion people, lack food, shelter and clean water. But parad…
Any physicist who begins to study physics knows that resistance against a flow has a direction of charge, and the resistor is already a positive quantity. But Turkish an…
Spintronic components (generation of electronic components of the future simultaneously exploiting the electronic properties as well as electrical charges) are gradually…
American physicists say they witness a unique combination of a Bose-Einstein condensate (Bose-Einstein condensate - BEC) in a system of pseudo-cooled particles called
Physicists in Germany claim they have for the first time discovered a material with a natural negative refractive index, instead of the usual positive refractive index.…
The study, published in the journal Science, has shown that small regions in semiconductors called quantum dots can allow electron emission in the nanosecond time scale…
Areas with small and isolated superconductivity exist within these substances at temperatures higher than previously known temperatures, according to a study by Princeto…