NANOMECHANICAL DEVICE BRIDGES CLASSIC AND QUANTUM PHYSICS
Date: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 @ 20:42:21 UTC
Topic: Devices
NANOMECHANICAL DEVICE BRIDGES CLASSIC AND QUANTUM PHYSICS, February 09
Nanotechnology leapt into the realm of quantum mechanics this past winter when an antenna-like sliver of silicon one-tenth the width of a human hair oscillated in a lab in a Boston University basement. With two sets of protrusions, much like the teeth from a two-sided comb or the paddles from a rowing shell, the antenna not only exhibits the first quantum nanomechanical motion but is also the world's fastest moving nanostructure.
Full story at: http://www.physorg.com/news2996.html
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FIRST STELLAR OUTCAST SPEEDING AT OVER 1.5 MILLION MILES PER HOUR, February 09
Using the MMT Observatory in Tucson, AZ, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) are the first to report the discovery of a star leaving our galaxy, speeding along at over 1.5 million miles per hour. This incredible speed likely resulted from a close encounter with the Milky Way's central black hole, which flung the star outward like a stone from a slingshot. So strong was the event that the speedy star eventually will be lost altogether, traveling alone in the blackness of intergalactic space.
Full story at: http://www.physorg.com/news2985.html
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