Exotic particles, chilled and trapped, form giant matter wave

Source: Lab Spaces

As excitons cool to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, they condense at the bottom of an electrostatic trap and spontaneously form coherent matter waves. Creating indirect excitons, with electrons and holes in separate layers of a semiconductor ...
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Nostalgia corner: Sapphire and Steel (1979-82)

Source: The Medium is Not Enough

All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, S ...
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Racism on the decline in Lancashire’s schools

Source: The Lancashire Telegraph

The number of incidents reported to Blackburn with Darwen Council has dropped by 28 and in Lancashire County Council’s schools racism fell by 10.3 per cent compared to last year. Education bosses said that they had been working with schoo ...
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First Bose-Einstein condensate of erbium: Quantum condensate of the thirteenth kind

Source: The Freeman Chronicles

ScienceDaily (May 22, 2012) ? Francesca Ferlaino’s research team at the University of Innsbruck is the first to successfully create a condensate of the exotic element erbium. Ultracold quantum gases have exceptional properties and ...
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Good vibes: Coupling electron spin states and carbon nanotube vibrations

Source: PhysOrg.com

Prof. Dr. Guido Burkard, Postdoctoral Researcher Andr´as P´alyi (now in the Department of Materials Physics at Eötvös University, Budapest) and their colleagues faced a number of challenges in their theoretical study of this phenomenon occ ...
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A novel probe for ultracold quantum matter

Source: Nanowerk Nanotechnology Spotlight

(Nanowerk News) In a paper published in the May 20, 2012 edition of the journal Nature Physics, a research group from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University reports the development and demonstration of a n ...
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Open thread: The Arkansas Democratic primary

Source: Hot Air

Tonight’s the big night. If you read this post last week, you already know why. The odds of O actually losing this race are somewhere south of one percent, I’d guess, but they’re not absolute zero. Remember, a poll taken in Arkansas’s Fourth Co ...
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Violence on women affects productivity: Dr Luveni

Source: FijiLive

She made the comment while opening the Violence Against Women forum at Holiday Inn in Suva late last week. “A confident woman who was free from abuse would be resourceful and progressive seeking a good job for her welfare,” she said. Dr Luveni said when ...
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Higher Education and the Holy Cookie

Source: American Digest

On the greatest chocolate-chip cookie in the known universe, with recipe.... This issue is not, as many would have you believe, whether or not the Constitution is a "living document" (It will be a living document on ...
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