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Composition News Archive

This is an archive of articles about composition from previous years. For an introduction to composition, and more recent news articles, please visit the composition page. For recent news articles in other topics, check out the In the News section.


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December 31, 2008: Top ten physics stories of the year -- includes the Large Hadron Collider, quarks, and GCRs -- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
December 24, 2008: Researcher nabs doubly magic tin isotope, a North American first -- Science Daily
December 12, 2008: Michigan State will host rare isotope facility -- Physics World
December 3, 2008: Speaker sees new collider as a cooperative effort to solve nature's mysteries -- AAAS
November 20, 2008: Nuclear masses calculated from scratch -- Nature
November 20, 2008: It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations -- New Scientist
November 17, 2008: Billions of particles of anti-matter created in laboratory -- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
November 17, 2008: Molecular plasma is cooler than you think -- Physical Review Focus
November 10, 2008: New theories may shed light on dark matter -- Scientific American
November 4, 2008: PAMELA bares all -- Physics World
October 30, 2008: Searching for primordial antimatter -- NASA
October 21, 2008: McGill physicists find a new state of matter in a 'transistor' -- Eurekalert
October 14, 2008: Nobel Focus: Particle physics gets a break -- Physical Review Focus
October 9, 2008: Spallation Neutron Source sends first neutrons to 'Big Bang' beam line -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
October 7, 2008: The 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics goes to -- AIP
October 6, 2008: Arizona State University research team selected to guide search for life -- Astronomy.com
October 3, 2008: Zooming way in, technique offers close-ups of electrons, nuclei -- Eurekalert
September 26, 2008: Journey to the center of the neutron -- Physical Review Focus
September 18, 2008: Unique dark-energy probe to measure more than a milion galaxies and quasars -- Science Daily
September 17, 2008: MACSJ0025: Two giant galaxy clusters collide -- APOD
September 3, 2008: Fermilab physicists discover "doubly strange" particle -- Fermilab
September 1, 2008: Electrons discover their individuality -- Max Planck Society
August 26, 2008: XMM-Newton's massive discovery -- Astronomy.com
August 23, 2008: The matter of the Bullet Cluster -- APOD
August 22, 2008: Some solar flares may be caused by dark matter -- New Scientist
August 19, 2008: Chemist travels world to study mysterious properties of neutrinos -- Brookhaven National Lab
August 13, 2008: NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula -- APOD
August 13, 2008: Physicists await dark matter confirmation -- NAture
August 6, 2008: Jupiter and Saturn full of liquid metal helium -- UC Berkeley
July 25, 2008: Tracking down origin of matter and antimatter -- Science Daily
July 18, 2008: A super mix inside neutron stars -- Physical Review Focus
July 16, 2008: Where balloons have made advances -- Nature
July 14, 2008: Particles retain weight for billions of years -- Space.com
July 10, 2008: R&D 100 Award for new UM-NIST neutron detector -- University of Maryland
July 9, 2008: Physicists discover new particle: The bottom-most "Bottomonium" -- SLAC
July 5, 2008: First underwater neutrino telescope has been constructed -- Science Daily
June 26, 2008: Dark matter is denser in the solar system -- Universe Today
June 24, 2008: 'Frozen' stars could shed light on dark matter -- New Scientist
June 4, 2008: Physicists to target neutrinos -- Nature
June 3, 2008: Super-luminous supernovae -- Astronomy.com
June 3, 2008: Protons pair up with neutrons -- Brookhaven National Laboratory
May 29, 2008: Astronomers map the metals in millions of Milky Way stars -- Sloan Digital Sky Survey
May 29, 2008: New form of artificial radioactivity -- AIP
May 21, 2008: The many versus the one -- Physical Review Focus
May 21, 2008: Looking for ET's neutrino beam -- Physics World
May 20, 2008: Atomic neutrality -- CERN
May 20, 2008: Hubble Space Telescope survey finds missing matter, probes intergalactic web -- University of Colorado
May 20, 2008: Willis Lamb: 1913-2008 -- Physics World
May 15, 2008: Can one 'pin down' electrons? -- Eurekalert
May 9, 2008: Designer isotopes push the frontier of science -- NSF
May 7, 2008: XMM-Newton discovers part of the missing matter in the universe -- Astronomy & Astrophysics
May 1, 2008: The heaviest element yet? -- Nature
April 30, 2008: Plasma physics: From black holes to radio reception -- Scientific American
April 29, 2008: High-flying electrons may provide new test of quantum theory -- NIST
April 27, 2008: The Galactic Center Radio Arc -- APOD
April 24, 2008: Exotic quantum state of matter discovered -- Science Daily
April 21, 2008: The range of annihilation -- HEAPOW
April 21, 2008: Quarter electrons may enable exotic quantum computer -- Scientific American
April 16, 2008: Particle physics proves that arsenic didn't kill Napoleon -- CERN
April 10, 2008: Optical clocks get better -- AIP
April 9, 2008: Higgs boson: A ghost in the machine -- Time
April 9, 2008: Newly discovered fundamental state of matter, a superinsulator, has been created -- Science Daily
April 8, 2008: 'God particle' expected to be found soon -- Time
April 8, 2008: 14-year-old CEO makes chemistry a game with 'Elementeo' -- Eurekalert
April 7, 2008: Periodic table: Nuclear scientists eye future landfall on a second 'island of stability' -- Science Daily
April 3, 2008: Matter-antimatter split hints at physics breakdown -- Scientific American
April 2, 2008: Bon MOT: Innovative atom trap catches highly magnetic atoms -- Eurekalert
April 1, 2008: Compressed stars: Physicists compress unstable nucleus of nickel 56 for first time -- Science Daily
March 30, 2008: Weak lensing distorts the universe -- APOD
March 28, 2008: Why matter matters in the universe -- University of Melbourne
March 25, 2008: Atom cloaking -- AIP
March 24, 2008: Physicists show electrons can travel more than 100 times faster in graphene -- University of Maryland
March 19, 2008: Japanese particle accelerator hints at 'new physics' -- New Scientist
March 15, 2008: Crashed probe yields sun secrets -- BBC
March 6, 2008: Controlling most atoms now possible -- Eurekalert
March 3, 2008: Particle collider's last big piece set -- National Geographic
February 27, 2008: US experiment takes the lead in the competitive race to find dark matter -- Caltech
February 25, 2008: Dawn of the Large Hadron Collider -- APOD
February 25, 2008: Electron gets film debut in first-ever video of its kind -- Science Daily
February 1, 2008: Dark fluid: Dark matter and dark energy may be two faces of the same coin -- Science Daily
January 31, 2008: New discovery on magnetic reconnection to impact future space missions -- Science Daily
January 29, 2008: Nowhere to hide: New ultra-powerful microscope probes atomic world -- Science Daily
January 23, 2008: A new calculation explains the mechanics behind carbon dating -- AIP
January 22, 2008: Milky Way's antimatter linked to exotic black holes -- New Scientist
January 22, 2008: Future of top U.S. particle physics lab in jeopardy -- Scientific American
January 22, 2008: CERN: Celebrating the lowering of the final detector element for Large Hadron Collider -- Science Daily
January 17, 2008: The future of physics -- Scientific American
January 17, 2008: Large Hadron Collider: The discovery machine -- Scientific American
January 17, 2008: The coming revolutions in particle physics -- Scientific American
January 9, 2008: Integral discovers the galaxy's antimatter cloud is lopsided -- ESA
January 9, 2008: Vast cloud of antimatter traced to binary stars -- NASA GSFC
January 9, 2008: Japanese particle physics in good health -- Physics World
January 2, 2008: Large Hadron Collider at CERN expected to go live summer of 2008 -- Science Daily
January 1, 2008: Helium supplies endangered threatening science and technology -- Washington University in St. Louis
December 22, 2007: The best of 2007 -- Physics World
December 21, 2007: The size of the helium-8 nucleus has been measured -- AIP
December 21, 2007: Transparent nuclei -- Physical Review Focus
December 19, 2007: US budget cuts a 'body blow' to particle accelerator -- New Scientist
December 13, 2007: Ten top physics stories for 2007 -- AIP
December 10, 2007: Major physics breakthrough in understanding supersolidity -- Science Daily
November 30, 2007: First estimate of size of new atomic particle (from 1937) -- Science News
November 30, 2007: Galaxies are born of violence between dark matter and interstellar gas -- Science Daily
November 28, 2007: Einstein's biggest blunder? Dark Energy may be consistent with cosmological constant -- Science Daily
November 20, 2007: Nuggets of new physics -- APS
November 17, 2007: Young's experiment performed in a hydrogen molecule -- Science Daily
November 15, 2007: Physicists peer closely at radioactive decay of a rare isotope at the edge of nuclear existence -- Science Daily
October 25, 2007: Newly created forms of magnesium and aluminum -- NSF
October 9, 2007: How can graphite and diamond be so different if they are both composed of pure carbon? -- Scientific American
October 5, 2007: Shining a light on mysterious 'dark matter' -- Science Daily
September 13, 2007: Matter or antimatter? Why not both? -- Australian Broadcasting Company
July 23, 2007: Ruling unruly substances -- Staying out of jams -- Science Daily
June 6, 2007: Researchers catch motion of a single electron on video -- Eurekalert
November 22, 2006: Genesis findings solve Apollo lunar soil mystery -- MoonDaily
August 21, 2006: Heavy hydrogen clumps in space -- Australian Broadcasting Company
April 6, 2006: It's the Sun, but not as we know it -- Australian Broadcasting Corporation News
November 15, 2005: Cosmochemist to receive National Medal of Science -- EurekAlert!
February 27, 2005: The solar spectrum -- NASA GSFC APOD
January 27, 2005: NASA sends first Genesis early-science sample to researchers -- NASA HQ
October 6, 2004: An overview of cosmic-ray elemental compositions -- ACE News
July 28, 2004: Sun spikes: Solar quakes fuel hot tendrils -- Space.com
July 28, 2004: Solar spicules explained -- Astronomy.com
April 6, 2004: Solar wind sampler seals its scoops -- New Scientist
April 5, 2004: No variability of N/O in the solar wind implies non-solar origin of lunar nitrogen -- ACE News
April 5, 2004: NASA spacecraft locks the vault on its sapphire, diamond payload -- NASA JPL
April 2, 2004: Here comes the Sun -- SpaceDaily
November 11, 2003: Solar flare 'reproduced' in lab -- BBC News
October 15, 2003: Revised periodic table slanted toward astronomers -- ScienceDaily
September 11, 2003: Sudbury Neutrino Observatory reports new measurements - thanks to table salt! -- ScienceDaily
June 19, 2003: "Dark side" of the Universe is coming to light -- National Geographic
April 12, 2003: Mapping the 'cosmic web' of dark matter -- Spaceflight Now
April 3, 2003: How the Sun shines -- Space.com
March 19, 2003: New telescope is upside-down at the bottom of the sea -- Space.com
January 28, 2003: South Pole telescope follows trail of neutrinos -- Spaceflight Now
January 17, 2003: What is the solar neutrino problem? -- NASA GSFC Science Question of the Week
January 1, 2003: Looking forward to physics at Tevatron Run II -- CERN
December 6, 2002: Sun is ok, says latest neutrino experiment -- Eurekalert
December 4, 2002: Researchers make first images of Earth's plasma sheet, discover possible breakthrough for monitoring and predicting space weather -- NASA GSFC
December 13, 2002: What carries more kinetic energy than a Randy Johnson fastball, yet is only the size of an atom? -- NASA GSFC Science Question of the Week
November 1, 2002: Detecting dark dimensions -- Physical Review Focus
October 29, 2002: Researchers get first look into antimatter atoms -- NSF
October 29, 2002: Researchers get first look into antimatter atoms -- SpaceRef.com
October 23, 2002: Gamma-ray telescope to sleuth for origin of elements -- NASA GSFC
September 20, 2002: Antimatter breakthrough: Big batch created in lab -- National Geographic
September 16, 2002: Nuclei reveal novel decay -- PhysicsWeb
September 1, 2002: Particle physics: A world without borders -- CERN Courier
July 17, 2002: Element 118 dropped from periodic table -- Scientific American
April 23, 2002: When neutrinos change type, some must have mass -- UniSci
April 22, 2002: Experiment confirms Sun theories -- BBC
April 22, 2002: Solar neutrinos really do change -- Berkeley Lab
April 11, 2002: Neutrinos from the Sun and from a factory described -- UniSci
April 10, 2002: Cosmic X-rays reveal evidence for new form of matter -- NASA HQ
March 20, 2002: A new form of matter -- Science@NASA
February 1, 2002: The Standard Model in trouble? -- Jupiter Scientific
January 22, 2002: Neutron bounce quantized in Earth gravity -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 30, 2001: Plucky IMP completes 28-year observing marathon -- NASA HQ
October 29, 2001: Plasma physics meeting this week one of the largest -- UniSci
June 27, 2001: Cluster's whispers probe the electrifying plasmasphere -- Spaceflight Now
June 26, 2001: Cluster's whispers probe the electrifying plasmasphere -- Spacer.com
June 20, 2001: Solar neutrino problem solved -- Spaceflight Now
October 1, 2000: "God particle" possibly discovered -- Jupiter Scientific
July 20, 2000: Science finds particle perfection -- BBC News
September 7, 1999: Plasma, plasma, everywhere -- NASA MSFC
February 22, 1999: New electron states observed by Caltech physicists -- Caltech



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