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Physicists See Golden Needle in a Micro-Cosmic Haystack - An international team of physicists examining an extremely rare form of subatomic particle decay — a veritable golden needle in a micro-cosmic haystack of 7.8 trillion candidates — has discovered evidence for the highly sought process, which could be an indication of new forces beyond those incorporated in the Standard Model of particle physics.

http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2004/bnlpr032304b.htm

Bright Light Yields Unusual Vibes - By bombarding very thin slices of several copper/oxygen compounds, called cuprates, with very bright, short-lived pulses of light, Ivan Bozovic, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and his collaborators have discovered an unusual property of the materials: After absorbing the light energy, they emit it as long-lived sound waves, as opposed to heat energy.

http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2004/bnlpr032404a.htm

Another Twist in the Field of Superconductivity - Researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered an interesting type of electronic behavior in a recently discovered class of superconductors known as cobalt oxides, or cobaltates. These materials operate quite differently from other oxide superconductors, namely the copper oxides, which are commonly referred to as high-temperature superconductors.

http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2004/bnlpr032304a.htm