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Atomic Agency Rescues 'Dirty Bomb' Material

Saturday, September 12th, 2009 - 18:55:27 - Anuradha Menon

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repatriated dozens of Russian-made, highly radioactive sources that had been languishing unused in...

Crystals Grown in a Flash

Thursday, August 6th, 2009 - 10:51:35 - Anuradha Menon

A technique that creates crystals on demand using laser pulses could make it easier to prepare the high-quality crystals needed to study protein...

Atomic Nucleus Takes Two Shapes

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 - 18:44:33 - Sarah Gingichashvili

The squashed heart of a sulphur isotope fluctuates between different states. Contrary to some expectations in the world of nuclear physics...

Variations Discovered in Superconductors

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 - 16:20:37 - Anuradha Menon

MIT physicists have discovered that several high-temperature superconductors display patchwork quilt-like variations at the atomic scale, a...

61-Second Minute Takes World into 2009

Thursday, January 1st, 2009 - 12:45:11 - Anuradha Menon

On New Year’s Eve, timepieces linked to the atomic clock will read 23:59:60 before flashing to 00:00:00, so get ready for a rare new year's...

4D Microscope Revolutionizes the Nano World

Friday, November 21st, 2008 - 16:36:29 - Anuradha Menon

More than a century ago, the development of the earliest motion picture technology made what had been previously thought "magical" a reality:...

Improving Our Ability to Peek Into Molecules

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 - 13:54:31 - Anuradha Menon

It’s not easy to see a single molecule inside a living cell. Nevertheless, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are helping to...

When Softness isn't a Virtue
Monday, January 14th, 2008 - Asaf Peer
A team of researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) has developed a method to distinguish between...