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The song of killer electrons | Bad Astronomy

The song of killer electrons | Bad Astronomy | Science News | Scoop.it
Cool stuff | chorus | Light and sound are two fairly different things. They're both waves, but their similarity ends there.
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February 27, 2012 7:22 AM
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Mysterious electron acceleration explained

Mysterious electron acceleration explained | Science News | Scoop.it
A mysterious phenomenon detected by space probes has finally been explained, thanks to a massive computer simulation that was able to precisely align with details of spacecraft observations.
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January 23, 2012 1:37 PM
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A new class of electron interactions in quantum systems

A new class of electron interactions in quantum systems | Science News | Scoop.it
Physicists at the University of New South Wales have observed a new kind of interaction that can arise between electrons in a single-atom silicon transistor.
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January 12, 2012 4:21 PM
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Choreographing dance of electrons offers promise in pursuit of quantum computers

Choreographing dance of electrons offers promise in pursuit of quantum computers | Science News | Scoop.it
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the basement of Hoyt Laboratory at Princeton University, Alexei Tyryshkin clicked a computer mouse and sent a burst of microwaves washing across a silicon crystal suspended in a frozen cylinder of stainless steel.
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November 28, 2011 8:26 AM
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Electrons out of balance

Electrons out of balance | Science News | Scoop.it
Apply an electric field to a material, and its positive and negative charges will separate, creating an electric polarization. This is the fundamental effect behind capacitors used in electronics a...
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September 22, 2011 3:33 AM
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Scientists play ping-pong with single electrons

Scientists play ping-pong with single electrons | Science News | Scoop.it
Researchers have moved an individual electron along a wire, batting it back and forth over 60 times, rather like the ball in a game of ping-pong.
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April 18, 2012 3:58 PM
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Physicists observe the splitting of an electron inside a solid

Physicists observe the splitting of an electron inside a solid | Science News | Scoop.it
An electron has been observed to decay into two separate parts, each carrying a particular property of the electron: a spinon carrying its spin -- the property making the electron behave as a tiny compass needle -- and an orbiton carrying its...
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February 27, 2012 6:12 AM
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Forcing an electron to orbit like a planet

Forcing an electron to orbit like a planet | Science News | Scoop.it
Researchers show that they can push an electron around a Rydberg atom in a controlled way using microwave fields.
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January 13, 2012 3:03 PM
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[VIDEO] Making A Computer From Bubbles

[VIDEO] Making A Computer From Bubbles | Science News | Scoop.it
By directing bubbles through etched pathways, bubbles can act as bits and be used to solve computations.
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January 12, 2012 2:59 PM
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Electron's negativity cut in half by supercomputer

Electron's negativity cut in half by supercomputer | Science News | Scoop.it
While physicists at the Large Hadron Collider smash together thousands of protons and other particles to see what matter is made of, they're never going to hurl electrons at each other.
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November 21, 2011 8:27 AM
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BEAMS of electrons can pick up and move tiny objects

BEAMS of electrons can pick up and move tiny objects | Science News | Scoop.it
Beams of electrons can pick up and move tiny objects, just like optical tweezers that manipulate items using light...
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