Category Archives: Fundamental Physics

Looking inside the atom for new technologies

By Lena | Published: February 19, 2010
Nuclear physics, which studies the huge variety of nuclei in all the matter that surrounds us, not only provides answers about the evolution of our universe, it also provides the underpinning knowledge needed to exploit nuclear properties in new technologies. A new report launched by the Institute of Physics, Nuclear physics and technology – inside the [...]
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Perfect image without metamaterials…. and a reprieve for silicon chips

By Lena | Published: September 29, 2009
Since 2000, Sir John Pendry’s work on metamaterials has been at the vanguard of efforts to create a perfect image – images with perfect resolution that can stem from light being moved in odd directions to create, among other tricks of the light, the illusion of invisibility. One exciting development was Pendry’s theoretically perfect work on [...]
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CERN boss wants to bid for linear collider

By Lena | Published: September 16, 2009
  CERN’s director general Rolf-Dieter Heuer will push for the linear collider, the next big experiment in particle physics after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to be built at the Geneva lab. Heuer made his call to situate the linear collider at CERN in an exclusive video interview with physicsworld.com, which is being relaunched today. Heuer’s vision [...]
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Pop-up particle physics

By alexcheung | Published: September 10, 2009
Particle physics can be difficult to get to grips with. And perhaps this is what CERN science writer (and ex-IOP employee) Emma Sanders had in mind as she worked on a pop-up book about CERN’s ATLAS experiment. ‘We wanted to give an idea of the scale of the experiments here and the major discoveries we are [...]
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