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Thursday, 04 October 2007 |
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Physics can save lives: a new type of defibrillation aims to reduce the voltage needed to shock out-of-control hearts back to a normal beating pattern. Ordinarily the beating heart is an orderly process (called systole) in which the heart muscle cells contract cooperatively to insure that blood is pumped about once every second. If, however, some portions of cardiac tissue are electrically triggered in a non-coordinated way, the overall activity of the heart can become chaotic. |
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Wednesday, 13 December 2006 |
 A new analytical technique that uses infrared spectroscopy to study
light-sensitive organic materials could lead to the development of
cheaper, more efficient solar cells. Using infrared (IR) spectroscopy
to study the vibrations of atoms within the material, the technique
provides information about the movement of electrons within a film of
carbon-based materials. Obtaining this information is a critical step
in the development of a new class of solar cells, which promise
significant savings in production costs compared to conventional
silicon-based cells. The new analytical technique, published as the
cover story in this week's issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B, was developed by a team led by Penn State University researcher John B. Asbury, assistant professor of chemistry.
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Tuesday, 05 December 2006 |
Dark energy, the unidentified force
that's pushing the universe to expand at ever faster rates, was
already at work as early as nine billion years ago, scientists
reported last week. New Hubble Space Telescope sightings of distant
supernova explosions support the explanation of dark energy as
energy of the vacuum whose density has stayed constant throughout
the universe's history, the scientists said.
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Tuesday, 05 December 2006 |
A team of Italian and German physicists has
developed a new, flexible fabrication technique for rewritable
photonic crystal devices, which could make it easier to create and
modify circuits in which photons process information in the same way
that electric currents do in electronics.
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Wednesday, 18 October 2006 |
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 The Athena collaboration, an
experimental group working at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, has measured
chemical reactions involving antiprotonic hydrogen, a bound object
consisting of a negatively charged antiproton paired with a
positively charged proton.
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