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Meeting Announcements

Week of Dec 4, 2006

• The Brain Does Not Work Like a Computer Say Researchers

Week of June 5, 2006

• New Method of Acoustic Analysis

Week of Feb 13, 2006

• Tabletop Nuclear Fusion at Room Temperature

Week of Feb 6, 2006

• Randomness and Quantum Statistical Physics

Week of Oct 3, 2005

• Another Boulder Physicist Gets Nobel Prize

Week of July 25, 2005

• Using General Relativity to Eliminate Dark Matter

Week of Feb 14, 2005

• Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes

Week of Jan 3, 2005

• Madison Dynamo Experiment Now Operational

Week of Sept 6, 2004

• Tabletop Geodynamo Experiment
• Pioneer Space Probe's Strange Dynamics

Week of Aug 23, 2004

• Atomic Clock Wristwatch?

Week of May 24, 2004

• Nanomagnets Manipulated with Electrons

Week of May 10, 2004

• World's Smallest Compass Needles Created

Week of Apr 26, 2004

• Why Do Some Plants Encode Fibonacci Number Sequences?
• How Much Carbon Dioxide Do the Forested Mountain Areas of Colorado Absorb?

Week of Apr 19, 2004

• Electron-Electron Scattering Does Not Conserve Parity

Week of Apr 5, 2004

• 80nm Resolution Achieved with Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy

Week of Mar 29, 2004

• New Technique for Determining the Age of Materials (Atom Trap Trace Analysis: ATTA)

Week of Feb 23, 2004

• Seeing Farther with Antenna Array and Supercomputer

Week of Jan 26, 2004

• "Cooper Pairs" of Atoms First Observed

Week of Jan 19, 2004

• Motion of a Dielectric Due to Momentum of a Vacuum

Week of Dec 15, 2003

• On the Mysterious Magnetic Fields Permeating the Galaxies
• Quark Spin and Angular Momentum in Protons & Neutrons at JLab
• A String of Atoms

Week of Dec 8, 2003

• A Light Pulse Fixed in Space
• World's Smallest Transistor Developed by NEC
• Increased electrical current capacity of MgB2 wires
• Rice Engineers Make First Pure Nanotube Fibers

Week of Dec 1, 2003

• Photonic Friction

Week of Nov 24, 2003

• Linear Magnetoresistance Over Very Wide Range
• Magnetism of Hydrogenated Graphite
• World's Narrowest Laser Beam

Week of Nov 17, 2003

• Manipulating Nuclear Spins with Electron Spins
• Bose-Einstein Super Molecule Created
• Atomic Scale Images of the Melting Process
• Designing and Building Artificial Proteins

Week of Sept 29, 2003

• Magnetic Monopoles Finally Found?

Week of Aug 4, 2003

• Proton Spin Acquired by Relative Motion Between Quarks

Week of July 21, 2003

• Getting More Signal Out of Low Field NMR

Week of May 26, 2003

• Ferroelectricity In Metal Clusters

Week of May 19, 2003

• New Experimental Technique Allows Single Electron Observation

Week of May 5, 2003

• Characterizing Alzheimer's Brains with Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance

Week of Apr 14, 2003

• Finding Hydrothermal Vents with a Magnetometer

Week of Apr 7, 2003

• New Earth's Field NMR Instrument is Versatile and Affordable

Week of Jan 20, 2003

• Flipping Tiny Magnets

Week of Dec 2, 2002

• 1024 Bits Stored in Proton Spins of LCD Molecule

Week of Nov 25, 2002

• Earth Science Can Help Teach Physics

Week of Nov 11, 2002

• Tiny Nuclear Powered Battery Lasts 50 years
• Geomagnetic Jerks Explained

Week of Oct 7, 2002

• 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Kurt Wuthrich for Protein Stucture Determination by NMR

Week of July 15, 2002

• Phonon Spectroscopy

Week of June 17, 2002

• Laser Spectroscopy Use To Track Phonon Flow

Week of June 3, 2002

• Low Field NMR article in June 2002 issue of Physics World

Week of May 27, 2002

• Low Field NMR article in June 2002 issue of Physics World
• LED Emits One Photon At A Time

Week of May 20, 2002

• Bosenovas Explained?
• Changing Shapes of Big Molecules with Lasers

Week of May 13, 2002

• Chromium Atoms One at a Time

Week of May 6, 2002

• BEC Solitons

Week of Apr 29, 2002

• Breakthrough in Making Very Long Nanotubes

Week of Apr 22, 2002

• Looking For Differences Between Protons and Neutrons

Week of Apr 15, 2002

• Earth In Process of Flipping Its Polarity
• Detecting Minute Quantities of TNT Using NMR

Week of Apr 8, 2002

• Earth's Field Reversal article in Apr 11, 2002 issue of Nature
• Measuring Electron Conduction of Single Molecules

Week of Apr 1, 2002

• Sonoluminescence Fusion Claim Criticized

Week of Mar 25, 2002

• Very Low Field MRI

Week of Mar 18, 2002

• One Dimensional Ferromagnetism Demonstrated

Week of Mar 11, 2002

• Nanotube Light Bulbs

Week of Mar 4, 2002

• New Type of Magnet
• Unexpected Result in Collision Between Proton and Deuterium Molecule
• Fusion Claimed in Sonoluminescence

Week of Feb 25, 2002

• Exploring 3-D Fractal Space with X-Rays

Week of Feb 18, 2002

• First Organic Near Infrared LED's

Week of Feb 11, 2002

• Harnessing the Casimir Force in Micromachines
• 3 Photon Stimulated Emission

Week of Feb 4, 2002

• One Dimensional Electronic Chips

Week of Jan 28, 2002

• Changing the Magnetism of a Plastic Magnet with Lasers
• Josephson Junction Function Generator

Week of Jan 21, 2002

• Electron Spins Found to Show Strange Behavior in High Tc Superconductors

Week of Jan 14, 2002

• Quantum Gravity Found Experimentally
• Imaging with Terahertz Rays

Week of Dec 24, 2001

• Using Silicon on Sapphire and Mini-lasers to Eliminate Wires on Chips

Week of Dec 17, 2001

• NMR Quantum Computer is First to Implement Shor's Algorithm
• Tiny Bubbles

Week of Dec 10, 2001

• Wiedemann-Franz Law Broken with Copper Oxide Superconductors

Week of Dec 3, 2001

• Controlling Electron Spin Electrically - The Spin Gate

Week of Nov 26, 2001

• First Plastic Magnet Created

Week of Nov 19, 2001

• Forming Materials with Bucky Onions

Week of Nov 12, 2001

• Watching Electrons in Semiconductor Interfaces with Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Week of Nov 5, 2001

• Ion Trap as Nanoprobe

Week of Oct 29, 2001

• Listening to the Phonons

Week of Oct 22, 2001

• Better Understanding of Quantum Phase Transitions

Week of Oct 15, 2001

• Transistors Composed of a Single Molecule Between Their Electrodes Used to Make Practical Circuits
• Destruction Resistant Structures

Week of Oct 8, 2001

• Physics Nobel Prize - Official Site
• Physics Nobel Prize - University of Colorado
• Physics Nobel Prize - NIST
• Physics Nobel Prize - MIT
• Carbon Nanotube FETs
• Polythiophene thin film Josephson junctions

Week of Oct 1, 2001

• Imaging Superconductor Vortices and Improving MRI

Week of Sept 24, 2001

• Microbes That Eat Glass

Week of Sept 10, 2001

• Predicting Extreme Events

Week of Aug 27, 2001

• Nanosprings

Week of Aug 20, 2001

• Electromechanical Transistor
• First Nanotube Logic Gate

Week of Aug 13, 2001

• Combining Laser Pulses To More Precisely Control Atoms

Week of Aug 6, 2001

• Superhard Steel

Week of July 30, 2001

• Better Magnetic Semiconductor Could Make Quantum Computing Easier

Week of July 23, 2001

• Nuclear Lighthouse Effect
• Optical Atomic Clock

Week of July 16, 2001

• Ions Stay Together By Repulsion
• Bosenova

Week of July 9, 2001

• NMR Spectroscopy Without A Uniform Magnetic Field

Week of July 2, 2001

• Making a Gyroscope with a Superfluid Squid

Week of June 25, 2001

• Bose-Einstein Condensate Without Magnetic Coils

Week of June 18, 2001

• Single Atom Spin Measurement with STM

Week of June 11, 2001

• Spin Transferred Across Semiconductor Interface

Week of June 4, 2001

• Barkhausen Noise, Earthquakes, and Rice Crispies

Week of May 28, 2001

• Silicon Polymer Created For Detecting Explosives

Week of May 21, 2001

• Making Plastic Stronger With Vibrations

Week of May 14, 2001

• World's Highest Energy Beam of Light

Week of May 7, 2001

• Zero resistance nanoscale wire
• Negative index of refraction materials
• Creating Spin Polarized Electron Currents With Light

Week of April 30, 2001

• Spinning Objects With Lasers

Week of April 23, 2001

• Pulling Apart RNA

Week of April 16, 2001

• 500 GHz Transistors
• Material with negative index of refraction
• Optical Transistor Developed

Week of April 9, 2001

• Making Solar Cells With Diamond Film

Week of April 2, 2001

• Material With A Negative Index of Refraction
• Customizing Index of Refraction With Simple Process

Week of March 26, 2001

• NMR Quantum Computing At Los Alamos

Week of March 19, 2001

• Modeling the Formation of Nanoporous Gold

Week of March 12, 2001

• Watching Gene Expression With MRI

Week of March 5, 2001

• Nanotube Rollups
• Different Type of High Temperature Superconductor Found: MgB2

Week of February 26, 2001

• Supercooled Boson/Fermion Mix
• Nanoparticles With Flames

Week of February 19, 2001

• Nanowires Made of Oligophenylenevinylene (OPV)

Week of February 12, 2001

• Making Silicon Nanostructures for Analyzing DNA
• Self Healing Material
• Information Theory View of Quantum Mechanics

Week of February 5, 2001

• LED's As Chemical Sensors
• Highest Energy Cosmic Rays Could Be Due to Collisions Between Clusters of Galaxies

Week of January 29, 2001

• Making MRI Better With RF Flux Channeling Material

Week of January 22, 2001

• New Insight Into Freezing and Thawing

Week of January 15, 2001

• Making Micropropellers

Week of January 8, 2001

• Old Crystal Reveals Clues to Young Earth

Week of December 18, 2000

• Studying Muscle Motors

Week of December 11, 2000

• Seeking the Origin of the Proton's Magnetic Moment
• Simple Process Makes Better Water Resistant Coatings
• Making Uniform Nanowires for Electronic Circuits
• Making Magnetic Nanowires

Week of December 4, 2000

• Spin Currents Without Charge Currents?

Week of November 27, 2000

• Resistance Between Nanotubes Studied
• Spin Polarization of Gases for MRI

Week of November 20, 2000

• 3D Viewing of Glass Structures with 2 Story Tall Electron Microscope
• New Type of Fullerene Created

Week of November 13, 2000

• Improvement Of The Mean-Field Theory of Magnetism

Week of November 6, 2000

• Creating Photons One At A Time
• Investigating Biomaterials

Week of October 30, 2000

• Making Transistors on Curved Surfaces
• Radioactive He2 Emission
• Using Laser Miscroscope to Watch Listeria Build Rocketships

Week of October 23, 2000

• Reducing Energy Loss with 2D Photonic Crystal
• Analysis of Martian Meteorite with Magnetic Microscope
• Explaining the Weird Behavior of Hydrogen Bonding on a Silicon Surface

Week of October 16, 2000

• Atomic Structure of Nerve Cell Gatekeeper Determined
• Diamond-Coesite Rock Preserves Maximum Pressure Experienced

Week of October 9, 2000

• Testing the Strength of Nanotubes

Week of October 2, 2000

• Changing Angstrom Scale Pore Sizes With Light
• Improved Rare Earth Magnets

Week of September 25, 2000

• Mapping Layers With X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Week of September 18, 2000

• The LED Frontier
• Knowing How Plant Cells Grow Despite Stiff Walls Could Help Materials Science

Week of September 11, 2000

• New Photopigment That May Drive Ion Pump Found in Oceanic Bacteria
• Getting More Out of Christiaan Huygen's 1665 Coupled Oscillator Experiment
• Making Tougher Plastics with Silica

Week of September 4, 2000

• Heavenly body - smallest fullerene created.
• Evolution of Photosynthesis
• Nanotubes May Be World's Best Heat Conductors

Week of August 28, 2000

• Crunching Materials With Magnetic Fields
• Verifying Quantum Theory of Light
• Improving Thin Piezoelectric Films
• New Spectroscopy Technique For Studying Molecular Vibrations
• New Process for Making Antibiotics of Only One Enantiomer

Week of August 21, 2000

• Making Solar Cells With Buckyballs
• Using Infrared Spectroscopy To Monitor Material Manufacturing
• Superconductivity of Composite Fermions in Two Dimensions

Week of August 14, 2000

• Potential of Nanojets
• Scientists Advance on Path to Make Electronics Tinier
• Brown physicist proposes that electron may be split in two
• Splitting the electron?
• For Thin, Foldable Monitors, One Word: Plastics
• Scientists claim cloning first
• Diamond billiards

The following stories are all about a new 5-qubit quantum computer developed by IBM scientists

• IBM-Led Team Unveils Most-Advanced Quantum Computer
• IBM-led team develops most advanced quantum computer
• A Quantum Leap for Computers
• IBM quantum computer solves code cracking problem

Week of August 7, 2000

• New Free Electron Laser Built at Brookhaven
• Most Detailed Images Ever of Ribosomes

Week of July 31, 2000

• Fluorite Ceramic Found To Be Radiation Resistant
• Making It Easier For Electrons To Leave a Metal Surface

Week of July 24, 2000

• Cool new gadget - superconducting transisitor
• Taking a leaf out of nature's book - artificial photosynthesis
• Balancing act - weighing a single bacterial cell

Week of July 17, 2000

• Catching and Probing Single Atoms With A Crystal
• Watching the Ratcheting Ribosomes
• Modulating X-Rays To Zap Cancer
• Big Molecules for Catching Light

Week of July 10, 2000

• Watching Polymer Chains Move on a Surface
• New Electrode for Aluminum Refining Proposed

Week of July 3, 2000

• New Electrolytes for Lithium Ion Batteries
• Organic Wires Grown on Silicon
• Ion Channels Revealed

Week of June 26, 2000

• Structure of Strong Seashell Discovered
• Resistivity of Metallic Fullerenes
• New Plastic Windshields

Week of June 19, 2000

• Far Field Microscopy
• Nano Locomotives
• Why Is There A Preferred Handedness in Life's Molecules?
• A Moon Rover That Makes Solar Panels

Week of June 12, 2000

• High Resolution Imaging of Magnetic Domains
• Leak Detection with Lasers

Week of June 5, 2000

• World's Smallest Fountain Pen
• Improved Organic LED's

Week of May 29, 2000

• Measuring Film Thickness with Diode

Week of May 22, 2000

• Battery-operated pen quickly disinfects drinking water
• NYU chemist develops molecule with switchable chirality
• Potato Computer
• Blood Flow Measurements with MRI to Test Angioplasty Effectiveness
• Little lasers
• Molecular gymnastics

Week of May 15, 2000

• Super High Resolution with Near Field Optical Microscopy
• Watching Enzyme Unzipping DNA

Week of May 8, 2000

• Detecting Single Prions in Fluid with Fluorescence Spectroscopy
• Pump up the volume - making heat flow from cold to hot

Week of May 1, 2000

• Crunchy filling - a new super hard material
• Molecular maths - molecular computing
• Making light of the Earth - a more accurate determination of G
• Top secret - Quantum Cryptography
• Engineers of chaos
• Lasers shine new light on gravity waves
• Functioning nanostructures self-assemble out of ink
• Heat Flow Quantum Observed by Caltech Physicists
• DNA Biosensor for Detecting Biological Molecules
• Miniature Fuel Cell
• Making Micro 3D Structures with Origami

Week of April 24, 2000

• Using NMR for Determining Electronic Properties of Nanotubes
• The Ising on the cake

Week of April 17, 2000

• Melting point - carbon dioxide lowers melting point
• Crystal clear - polarizing polymer
• Natural Cyclical Events and Fractals
• Improved Organic Semiconductors

Week of April 3, 2000

• Efficient 100 Gigabyte/sec Electron to Optical Photon Converters for Communications
• Microwaved metals

Week of March 27, 2000

• Nanowires grown from quantum dot seeds
• Polymer-based mirror outshines all others
• Physicists Unveil Schroedinger's SQUID
• Experimental evidence of optical chirality in gold nanoclusters
• Controlling size and shape of colloidal platinum nanoparticles
• Laser-assisted machining of ceramic parts
• New horizons, treatments in anticancer chemistry
• Tiny structures for drug delivery
• Synthetic rubber kills germs on contact
• Several new single-molecule magnets discovered

Week of March 20, 2000

• A Seven Qubit Quantum Computer Based on NMR
• Focus on Fuel Cells - Fuelling the future?
• Focus on Fuel Cells - Bringing fuel cells down to earth
• Focus on Fuel Cells - Hydrogen: fire and ice
• A finger on the pulse - chemical waves in cells
• Wet where you want
• Anarchy in the heart of the Sun
• Optical tweezers: single photons trap a single atom
• Bending light over backwards
• MRI of Conduction Electrons
• Fast Optical Attenuator
• Scientists Gain Molecular Understanding of How Clays Behave When Wet

Week of March 13, 2000

• Low Temperature, High Visibility - high resolution scanning force microscope
• A New Way To Engineer Cells
• Spooky Particles Survive Einstein's Trap
• Flameless fuels - fuel cells
• Quantum juggling - a step towards a quantum computer
• Shake and pack - packing spheres
• Seeds of hope - human tissue engineering
• New materials for building better batteries
• Adjusting the Bandgap of GaAs with Nitrogen
• Controlling Semiconductor Device Behavior with Organic Molecules

Week of March 6, 2000

• Herding Molecules
• Building the Devil's Staircase
• Nanotubes Show Promise From TVs To Velcro
• Supersmall Structures Created by Holography

Week of February 28, 2000

• The Smallest Rings of Electricity
• Microsculpture made easy
• Gene Chips
• Vertical Giant Magnetoresistance RAM
• Building Viruses
• All-Optical NMR

• Tiny litmus test
• Theory does not hold water
• Custom Magnets
• Algae Could Be Good Source of Hydrogen
• The Earth as a Giant Electric Motor
• Making Human Genome Data Useful

Week of February 14, 2000

• Spinning a good yarn - synthetic silk
• Photons: Buy One, Get Three Free
• Let there be more light - replacing light bulbs with LEDs
• RNA Works Out Knight Moves - Molecular Computer
• Scientists develop new material for efficient flat-panel displays
• Paper your walls with loudspeakers
• New Material Chills Via Electric Current
• First-ever imaging of electron clouds in high-Tc superconductors
• New tool gives scientists inside look at materials
• Optical switching could cause shakeup in electronics industry
• Cool New Material May Double Computer Speeds

Week of February 7, 2000

• Amplifier from Half-Breed Particles - stimulated scattering of polaritons
• Double Magic for New Nickel Nucleus
• Synchrotron Radiation Reveals Secrets Of Antiferromagnetism
• Robots Eavesdrop on Cellular Discussions
• Digital Entropy
• Optical Black Holes
• A Good Look at Nanocrystals
• Hot Bubbles
• Chemists report using infrared lasers to probe key molecular interactions
• Tiny Machines Do the Work of Giants - nanotechnology
• Improved Material for Holographic Memory Storage

Week of January 31, 2000

• Stretching the Horizon for Electrical Devices
• Quantum Mirage - IBM scientists discover nanotech communication method
• Great balls of what? - ball lightning
• Fluorine enhances boron combustion in energetic propellants
• Simulations reveal morphological transition in simple foams
• Weak interaction helps locate strange quark in proton structure
• Gelsolin Protein Unfolding Discovery Could Help in Controlling Cancer
• Material from Pig Intestine Stimulates Wound Healing
• Watching DNA Jiggle
• Finding the Important Part of a Protein
• Debut of the Nano-Sniffers - miniature chemical sensors

Week of January 24, 2000

• Every photon is sacred - new ultra sensitive infrared photon detector
• Cyrano's system follows its nose
• Sandia joins national charge into 21st century nanotechnology revolution
• Functional MRI will enable non-invasive visualization of brain
• Scientists capture first-ever 3D visualization of molecules breaking apart when exposed to x-rays
• New technique measures chemical composition of tiny details
• Nuclear Physics with Lasers
• Blue-Blood Semiconductors on Low-Rent Silicon - blue LEDs built on silicon
• Ultrasensitive analysis technique detects single atoms in large samples
• Electric Crystals That Really Swing - new type of piezoelectric crystal

Week of January 17, 2000

• Tough new material wins U.S.-Israel award: Useful in circuit boards, radar installations, even human implants
• Science roadmap unveiled
• How decoherence killed Schrodinger's cat
• Quantum memory: it's not just for theorists anymore.
• The next big bang - chemists create powerful new explosive
• Scientists Create World's Smallest Pieces Of Ice
• SCANNING GATE MICROSCOPY

Week of January 10, 2000

• Scientists report advance in DNA computing
• Wielding the molecular scalpel
• Human Genome 90% Done, Says Company
• Brookhaven Scientists Create New Ways to Tag and Track Molecules

Week of January 3, 2000

• World's Largest Fast-Growth Crystal Grown At Lawrence Livermore Lab
• Technology Review - Quantum Dot Com - an article on nanotechnology in medicine
• Technology Review - Nanomedicine Nears the Clinic - another article on nanotechnology in medicine
• Nanoscale tweezers pluck molecules
• MIT material could aid high-temperature processes
• Breaking the Bonds You Choose - selectively breaking chemical bonds with x-rays
• A different way of melting a semiconductor material