Best of Last Week—New touchscreen technology, a new 3D map of the Milky Way and looking at the brains of short sleepers
Monday, September 19, 2016 - 07:31
in Physics & Chemistry
(ScienceX)—It was another good week for physics as a team at the University of Sussex announced that they have developed new touchscreen technology based on patterning silver nanowire films. Also, a team at MIT cooled potassium atoms down to several nanokelvins, allowing them to see for the first time individual atoms avoiding each other or bunching up in pairs. And a pair of researchers revealed a riddle for our time—why doesn't the universe look different than it does if the rate of expansion has been constant?