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Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Eric Smalley	Pure Silicon Laser Debuts Researchers have made a prototype laser from silicon. The laser is tunable, meaning it can lase in a range of wavelengths, or colors, and it works at room temperature.
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IEEE Spectrum January 2009 Mark Anderson	U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu's Latest Experiment Chu's atom interferometer could lead to GPS without the satellites to monitor earthquake zones, map out undiscovered mineral resources, and search for elusive gravitational waves.
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Chemistry World January 16, 2012 Kate McAlpine	Stripped down spectroscopy to probe single molecules Spectroscopy, a key method of identifying atoms and molecules with light, has been taken to its most fundamental level - a single photon absorbed by a single molecule.
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Scientific American September 2007 Marguerite Holloway	What Visions in the Dark of Light Lene Vestergaard Hau made headlines by slowing light to below highway speed. Now the ringmaster of light can stop it, extinguish it and revive it and thereby give quantum information a new look.
Chemistry World August 10, 2012 Nina Notman	Tweaked weighing scales help map the island of stability The mass of the heavy element lawrencium has been measured directly for the first time by German scientists.
Chemistry World November 15, 2011 Kate McAlpine	Shedding light on ultracold reactions in space Two teams of researchers in the US and Europe have shown that light can play a bigger role than expected in the nascent field of ultracold atom-ion interactions.
Technology Research News December 31, 2003 Eric Smalley	Light frozen in place Researchers at Harvard University have trapped and held a light pulse still for a few hundredths of a millisecond.
Scientific American May 2009 George Musser	Mapping the Universe with Helium A new way to squeeze information from the microwave background.
Technology Research News October 8, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Crystal slows and speeds light Playing tricks with light -- speeding, slowing and storing it -- is becoming a popular pastime among physicists. The effects could eventually be used to improve communications and data storage and help bring about quantum computing and quantum communications.
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Chemistry World June 25, 2013 Laura Howes	Van der Waals forces between atoms measured Lucas Beguin and co-workers at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Palaiseau, France, however, have developed a new way of measuring these forces.
Technology Research News August 11, 2004	Single gold atoms altered The gold atom, positioned on an ultrathin film of sodium chloride, remained stable during the operation, despite the change in charge.
Technology Research News March 10, 2004	Atom spouts photons on demand California Institute of Technology researchers have fashioned a single atom into a light source that generates single photons on demand.
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Chemistry World February 10, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Inching towards the island of stability An international team of researchers has for the first time directly measured the mass of an element heavier than uranium.
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Chemistry World November 27, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Getting the Dope on a Single Atom of Dopant Scientists have successfully probed the electronic and quantum mechanical properties of a single atom of dopant in a silicon transistor. The research could provide important information necessary for the development of quantum computers.
Chemistry World March 3, 2010 Jon Cartwright	Hydrocarbon turns superconductor Researchers in Japan have created the first superconducting material based on a molecule of carbon and hydrogen atoms.
Chemistry World May 2, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Solar panel slims down to a few atoms thick An international team of researchers has constructed an atom thin photovoltaic device with unusually high quantum efficiency -- a measure of the photons converted into charge carrying electrons -- of 30%.
Chemistry World May 30, 2012 Jon Cartwright	Tiny buckyball grown around metal atom An international team of researchers has observed the smallest fullerene to form spontaneously to date using metal atoms for stabilization.
Chemistry World September 13, 2007 James Mitchell Crow	Molecules Made with Antimatter Molecules combining electrons and positrons -- matter and antimatter -- have been made for the first time by US scientists, potentially paving the way for powerful new lasers.
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Chemistry World January 20, 2010 James Urquhart	Disilicate synthesis success A compound containing a stable silicon-silicon bond between two negatively charged pentacoordinated silicon atoms - silicates - has been synthesized and isolated for the first time by Japanese researchers.
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