EU Science News http://www.science-news.eu/ en-us Science News provides daily coveragy of the latest achievements and developments of european scientists After 50 year search, research team finds plutonium signature (Phys.org) -- After fifty years of trying by various researchers, a group made up of teams from Los Alamos National Libratory in the US and the Atomic Energy Agency in Japan, have succeeded ... http://www.science-news.eu/physics-news/cluster123338/ Fri, 18 May 2012 08:46:11 EST 123338 Quantum computing: The light at the end of the tunnel may be a single photon Quantum physics promises faster and more powerful computers, but quantum versions of basic logic functions are still needed to bring this technology to fruition. Researchers from the University ... http://www.science-news.eu/physics-news/cluster123505/ Fri, 18 May 2012 12:46:09 EST 123505 Quantum computer leap (Phys.org) -- The main technical difficulty in building a quantum computer could soon be the thing that makes it possible to build one, according to new research from The Australian National ... http://www.science-news.eu/physics-news/cluster123463/ Fri, 18 May 2012 05:46:04 EST 123463 MAJORANA, the search for the most elusive neutrino of all (Phys.org) -- In a cavern almost a mile underground in the Black Hills, an experiment called the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, 40 kilograms of pure germanium crystals enclosed in deep-freeze cryostat ... http://www.science-news.eu/physics-news/cluster123258/ Thu, 17 May 2012 08:16:21 EST 123258 Dancing droplets reveal physics at work Magnetic fields can deflect liquid oxygen http://www.science-news.eu/physics-news/cluster123390/ Thu, 17 May 2012 12:46:39 EST 123390 Watching an electron being born Atomic processes take place on extremely short time scales. Measurements at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) can now visualize these processes. http://www.science-news.eu/physics-news/cluster122843/ Tue, 15 May 2012 08:46:15 EST 122843 X-ray laser uncovers secrets of complex oxide material (Phys.org) -- An international team of researchers has used SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) to discover never-before-seen behavior by electrons in complex materials with extraordinary ... http://www.science-news.eu/physics-news/cluster123249/ Thu, 17 May 2012 08:16:16 EST 123249 Graphite enters different states of matter (Phys.org) -- For the first time, scientists have seen an X-ray-irradiated mineral go to two different states of matter in about 40 femtoseconds (a femtosecond is one quadrillionth of a second). http://www.science-news.eu/physics-news/cluster123070/ Wed, 16 May 2012 10:16:27 EST 123070 Two new excited states of the Lambda-b beauty particle observed by LHCb In beautiful agreement with the Standard Model, two new excited states of the Λb beauty particle have just been observed by the LHCb Collaboration. Similarly to protons and neutrons, ... http://www.science-news.eu/physics-news/cluster123298/ Thu, 17 May 2012 07:16:05 EST 123298 Antimatter Propulsion Engine Redesigned Using CERN's Particle Physics Simulation Toolkit Latest simulation shows that the magnetic nozzles required for antimatter propulsion could be vastly more efficient than previously thought--and built with today's technologies Smash a ... http://www.science-news.eu/physics-news/cluster123027/ Mon, 14 May 2012 11:46:54 EST 123027