Physics
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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- Space
Lopsided universe demands different explanation
Cosmologists analyzing an apparent asymmetry in the pattern of radiation reveal evidence for a new type of field in the early universe.
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Matter & Energy: Science news of the year, 2008
Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Matter & Energy. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.
- Climate
Holdren to Head White House Science
It appears that another physicist with Nobel ties is set to become the primary Obama adviser on science.
- Tech
Hot new memory
A study of the physics of phonons, quantum packets of heat, suggests that controlling the flow of heat could be another way to store digital information.
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- Chemistry
Of Presidents and Nobels
It appears Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will soon have produced two Nobel laureates to offer White House counsel and directives on science policy.
- Tech
Obama selects Steven Chu as Energy Secretary
Featured blog: Chu is an energy researcher who also shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics.
- Space
Reading ripples in the cosmic microwave background
Researchers analyzing the wiggles imprinted on the cosmic microwave background, the radiation leftover from the Big Bang, have now demonstrated that those wiggles can be used to find the fingerprints of dark energy.
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Superglass could be new state of matter
Simulations of helium-4 show that a superglass, in which atoms flow without friction, is possible.
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Physicists Hot for Ultracold
Physicists have recently coaxed molecules into ultracold states in which motion is nearly gone.
- Space
First LHC proton collisions postponed further
The world’s most powerful atom smasher won’t reopen for business until the end of June at the earliest, rather than in April as scientists had previously estimated.
