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NANOMAGNETS BEND THE RULES, April 19
Nanocomposite materials seem to flout conventions of physics. In the latest example of surprising behavior, reported* by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Brookhaven National Laboratory, a class of nanostructured materials that are key components of computer memories and other important technologies undergo a previously unrecognized shift in the rate at which magnetization changes at low temperatures.

Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news3784.html

SYNERGISTIC SUPERGRID FOR TRANSPORTING ENERGY MOVES CLOSER TO REALITY, April 18
The concept of a high-capacity superconducting energy pipeline, or SuperGrid, moved closer to reality when experts from industry, government and academia attended a recent workshop at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news3763.html

Physicists demonstrate quantum mechanical nature of heat flow

One of the hallmarks of quantum mechanics -- the laws of physics that apply on very small scales -- is the wave nature exhibited by sub-atomic particles such as electrons. An electron presented with two paths to a destination will use its wave nature to traverse both paths and, depending on the parameters of the two paths, will constructively or destructively interfere with itself at its destination, leading to a high or low probability of it appearing there.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news3734.html