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Argonne scientists uncover a photosynthetic puzzle
Quantum physics and plant biology seem like two branches of science that could not be more different, but surprisingly they may in fact be intimately tied. (2012-05-24)

Quantum Condensate of the Thirteenth Kind
Francesca Ferlaino's research team at the University of Innsbruck is the first to successfully create a condensate of the exotic element erbium. (2012-05-23)

Return of the vacuum tube
Vacuum tubes have been retro for decades. They almost completely disappeared from the electronics scene when consumers exchanged their old cathode ray tube monitors for flat screen TVs. (2012-05-21)

Quantum computing: The light at the end of the tunnel may be a single photon
Quantum physics promises faster and more powerful computers, but quantum versions of basic logic functions are still needed to bring this technology to fruition. (2012-05-21)

Timely discovery: Physics research sheds new light on quantum dynamics
Kansas State University physicists and an international team of collaborators have made a breakthrough that improves understanding of matter-light interactions. (2012-05-16)

KIT Researchers Succeed in Realizing a New Material Class
A research team lead by Professor Martin Wegener at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has succeeded in realizing a new material class through the manufacturing of a stable crystalline metafluid, a pentamode metamaterial. Using new nanostructuring methods, these materials can now be realized for the first time with any conceivable mechanical properties. (2012-05-09)

Researchers from the University of Zurich discover new particle at CERN
Physicists from the University of Zurich have discovered a previously unknown particle composed of three quarks in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. (2012-04-30)

Slicing mitotic spindle with lasers, nanosurgeons unravel old pole-to-pole theory
The mitotic spindle, an apparatus that segregates chromosomes during cell division, may be more complex than the standard textbook picture suggests, according to researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). (2012-04-27)

NIST physicists benchmark quantum simulator with hundreds of qubits
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a quantum simulator that can engineer interactions among hundreds of quantum bits (qubits)-10 times more than previous devices. (2012-04-26)

Electron politics: Physicists probe organization at the quantum level
A new study this week finds that "quantum critical points" in exotic electronic materials can act much like polarizing "hot button issues" in an election. (2012-04-26)