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News: December 2002
Brightness boost for organic LEDs
Dec 18, 2002
Researchers have built a highly efficient hybrid LED device
Sand-dune science creeps ahead
Dec 18, 2002
Dunes made in the lab could help communities beset by encroaching desert
Plasma physicist to head CERN
Dec 13, 2002
Robert Aymar will be the next director general of the world’s biggest particle physics lab
Ultra-cold Fermi gases enter new regime
Dec 12, 2002
Physicists may have seen a new type of superfluidity
More evidence for neutrino oscillation
Dec 11, 2002
New experiments provide independent confirmation for neutrino mass and mixing
Physics gets shot in the arm
Dec 10, 2002
UK physicists receive substantial new money in the government’s spending review
Proxima Centauri comes into focus
Dec 10, 2002
Astronomers accurately measure the size of a small star for the first time
Caesium condensate makes its debut
Dec 6, 2002
Bose-Einstein condensation in caesium promises new insights into the quantum world
Astrophysicists bag Euro prize
Dec 6, 2002
EU awards Descartes prize for research on gamma-ray bursts
A sound way to make polymers
Dec 6, 2002
Dutch scientists create polymers in high-pressure carbon dioxide using an ultrasound technique
Anti-bubbles hint at fragile economic prospects
Dec 4, 2002
Physicists predict a shaky future for the stock market using statistical analysis
