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Life turned upside down
Tue 31 Jan 12 from Discover Magazine
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'Crackpot' Theory of Everything Reveals Dark Side of Peer Review
The theory suggests inanimate objects are alive - which others call bunk.
Tue 31 Jan 12 from SPACE.com
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Many bodies make one coherent burst of light: Researchers see superfluorescence from solid-state material
In a flash, the world changed for Tim Noe – and for physicists who study what they call many-body problems. The Rice University graduate student was the first to see, in the summer of 2010, ...
Mon 30 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Physicists push for underground testing facility
Pran Nath, the Matthews Distinguished Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, is among a group of leading theoretical physicists who have asked the Department of Energy to develop a ...
Thu 2 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Polarization imaging: Seeing through the fog of war
Funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the development of a new circular polarization filter by a collaborative team of scientists at the Colorado School of Mines and ITN Energy ...
Wed 1 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Quantum physicists shed new light on relation between entanglement and nonlocality
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the University of Bristol may disprove a long-standing conjecture made by one of the founders of quantum information science: that quantum states featuring ...
Mon 30 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Real time footage of aurora shows them dancing and shimmering
Photographer Alistair Chapman traveled to Tromso, Norway — 300 km ...
Sat 28 Jan 12 from Discover Magazine
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Jumping spider uses fuzzy eyesight to judge distance
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the ways in which humans determine distance is by estimating the sharpness of an image—closer objects produce a sharp image, while those further away are out of ...
Fri 27 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Anti-matter set for gravity test
Researchers prepare pairs of matter and anti-matter particles in a bid to finally resolve whether anti-matter repels normal matter in a kind of "anti-gravity".
Fri 27 Jan 12 from BBC News
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Scientists create first free-standing 3-D cloak
Researchers in the US have, for the first time, cloaked a three-dimensional object standing in free space, bringing the much-talked-about invisibility cloak one step closer to reality.
Thu 26 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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