Popular articles and webpages about our research
(not necessarily a complete list......)
Astro-comb:
How to Find Other "Earths"
K. Bourzac,
MIT Technology Review, April 3, 2008.
With a coarse-tooth comb
G. Walker,
Nature, 452, 538 (April 3, 2008).
Easy ways to other Earths
E. Hand,
Nature, 452, 514 (April 3, 2008).
Laser precision added to searchfor new Earths
A. Powell,
Harvard website (April 2, 2008).
Atomic clocks and tests of basic physical laws and symmetries:
Special Relativity Reconsidered
A. Cho,
Science, 307, 866 (February 11, 2005).
Physics New Update: "Is Special Relativity Wrong"
The Maser at 50
R. L. Walsworth,
Science, 306, 236 (October 8, 2004).
The Search for Relativity Violations
A. Kostelecky,
Scientific American, 92 (September, 2004).
Lorentz Invariance on Trial
M. Pospelov and M. Romalis,
Physics Today 57, 40 (July, 2004).
Breaking Lorentz symmetry
R. Bluhm,
Physics World 17, 41 (March, 2004).
Back to the Future
P. Ball,
Nature 427, 482 (5 February, 2004).
Fabric of the Final Frontier
N. Russell,
New Scientist 179(2408), 22 (16 August, 2003).
Transcript of radio interview with Ron Walsworth
Scientific American: "Peering Over Einstein's Shoulders"
"Stopped Light"
The Story Behind Stopped Light.
(Large File - 2.4 MB!)R. Walsworth, S. Yelin, and M. Lukin,
Optics and Photonics News 13(5), 50 (May, 2002).
EE Times: "Researchers demo secure storage of quantum data"
New York Times: "Scientists Bring Light to Full Stop, Hold It, Then Send It on Its Way"
(Jan. 18, 2001)
NPR "All Things Considered" (Jan. 18, 2001)
Radio interview with Lene Hau, Ron Walsworth, and Seth Lloyd can be played with RealPlayer.
NPR "Talk of the Nation: Science Friday" (Jan. 19, 2001)
Radio interview with Seth Lloyd can be played with RealPlayer.
Boston Globe: "The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Stopped" (Feb. 6, 2001)
Physics News Update: "At Last! Light Brought to a Halt"
Science@NASA: "Sit. Speak. Good Photon!"
Science News: "Light stands still in atomic clouds"
MSNBC: "Scientists put a light wave on hold"
Discover Magazine: Year in Science 2001
Magnetic resonance of polarized noble gases for use in biomedical imaging and probing porous materials:
Orlando Sentinel: "Heading off MRI claustrophobia" (Mar. 27, 2007)
Columbia News Service: "MRI scans: Do they still trigger claustrophobia?" (Feb. 27, 2007)
Mobilizing magnetic resonance
B. Goodson,
Physics World 19(5), 28-33 (May, 2006).
Neuartiger Kernspintomograph entwickelt (in German)
Electrosuisse, issue 9, 59 (2004).
Imaging thin air can spot lung disease
J. Hogan,
New Scientist 182(2442), 25 (10 April, 2004).
PhysicsWeb: Claustrophobics breathe sigh of relief at new MRI scanner
Scientific American: "Seeing the breath of life"
Physics New Update: "Sandstone Tortuosity"
Online APS News: "Putting a New Spin on MRI with Laser-Polarized Noble Gases"
Physics News Update: "Low field MRI"
