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Fermionic condensate could have practical applications
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4090003/
WASHINGTON - Scientists say they have created a new form of matter and predict it could help lead to the next generation of superconductors for use in power distribution, more efficient trains and countless other applications.
The new matter form is called a fermionic condensate, and it is the sixth known form of matter ? after gases, solids, liquids, plasma and Bose-Einstein condensate, created only in 1995.
?What we?ve done is create this new exotic form of matter,? said Deborah Jin, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology?s joint lab with the University of Colorado, who led the study.
?It is a scientific breakthrough in providing a new type of quantum mechanical behavior,? Jin added during a news conference.
A superconductor, sort of
The cloud of supercooled potassium atoms brings Jin and fellow researchers one step closer to an everyday, usable superconductor ? a material that conducts electricity without losing any of its energy.
?It is related to a Bose-Einstein condensate,? Jin said. ?It?s not a superconductor, but it is really something in between these two that may help us in science link these two interesting behaviors.?
And other researchers may find practical applications.
?If you had a superconductor, you could transmit electricity with no losses,? Jin said. ?Right now something like 10 percent of all electricity we produce in the United States is lost. It heats up wires. It doesn?t do anybody any good.?
Superconductors also could allow for the invention of magnetically levitated trains, she added. Free of friction, they could glide along at high speeds using a fraction of the energy trains now use.
Better than a boson
Jin, a recent recipient of a MacArthur Foundation ?genius grant,? was building on the discovery of the Bose-Einstein condensate by her colleagues Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman. They won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery.
Bose-Einstein condensates are collections of thousands of ultracold particles that occupy a single quantum state. They all essentially behave like a single, huge superatom. But Jin said these Bose-Einstein condensates are made with bosons, which like to act in unison.
?Bosons are copycats. They basically want to do what everyone else is doing,? she said.
Her team?s new form of matter uses fermions ? the everyday building blocks of matter that include protons, electrons and neutrons.
?They are not copycats,? Jin said. ?Fermions are your independent thinkers ? they don?t copy their neighbors.?
Jin?s team coaxed them into doing just that.
They cooled potassium gas to a billionth of a degree above absolute zero, or minus-459 degrees Fahrenheit ? which is the point at which matter stops moving. They confined that supercooled gas in a vacuum chamber, then used magnetic fields and laser light to manipulate the potassium atoms into pairing up.
?This is very similar to what happens to electrons in a superconductor,? Jin said.
Practical application
This is more likely to provide applications in the practical world than a Bose-Einstein condensate, she said, because fermions are what make up solid matter.
Bosons, in contrast, are seen in photons, and subatomic particles called W and Z particles.
Jin stressed that her team worked with a supercooled gas, which provides little opportunity for everyday application. But the way the potassium atoms acted suggested there should be a way to translate the behavior into a room-temperature solid.
?Our atoms are more strongly attracted to one another than in normal superconductors,? she said.
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Up to 30% of all e-mail traffic worldwide generated by virus
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3439959.stm
E-mail virus takes on new guise
Security firms are warning that a new strain of the Mydoom virus could spread more widely than its predecessor.
They fear that the thousands of PCs infected by the first Mydoom bug are being used to spread the new variant.
The second strain, called Mydoom.b, is programmed to attack the websites of Microsoft and software firm SCO.
Mydoom is now ranked as one of the largest virus outbreaks ever and at its height made up 30% of all e-mail traffic, according to anti-virus firms.
Unauthorised access
Mydoom virus arrives as an e-mail attachment which sends itself out to other addresses if opened, and may allow unauthorised access to computers.
The virus only affects computers using Microsoft Windows also spreads through file-sharing networks, like Kazaa, and installs a "backdoor" onto machines if launched.
Anti-virus firm Kaspersky Labs said it fears that the backdoor installed on many machines is already being used to spread the new variant.
Web monitoring firms have detected a huge increase in the amount of scanning for infected machines.
Some of this scanning could be due to companies finding and cleaning infected machines but some of it is thought to be the work of malicious hackers keen to exploit the army of machines compromised by Mydoom.
An infected computer could allow attackers to get unauthorised access to a user's machine and use it to bring down websites, according to security experts.
The Mydoom variant is designed to attack www.microsoft.com, the main Microsoft website, as well as the SCO website, which had been the target of the original worm.
The attacks are scheduled to begin on 1 February and continue until the 12th.
100m infected e-mails
The worm, also known as Novarg, is bigger and faster than last year's Blaster and Sobig ones.
According to Finnish security experts F-Secure, Mydoom flooded the internet with more than 100 million infected e-mails in its first 36 hours.
"Current estimates show that currently between 20% and 30% of all e-mail traffic worldwide is generated by this worm," said the company.
The spread of the virus prompted an FBI investigation and SCO is offering a $250,000 reward to find who was responsible.
The US company has been involved in a legal row with the open-source community, after claiming versions of the Linux operating system used code it said it owned.
Mydoom does not take advantage of any flaws in Windows software. Instead, many of the e-mails look like they have been sent from organisations like charities or educational institutions, to fool recipients into opening it.
Anyone who has received the worm should avoid opening or double clicking the attachment. They should also ensure their anti-virus software is updated, so that if the attachment is opened by accident, the software will catch it.
If anti-virus software does not spot an infection once the attachment is launched, people should download the free tools available to deal with it.
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM VIRUSES
Install an anti-virus program.
Keep it up to date
Get the latest patches and updates for your operating system
Never automatically open e-mail attachments
Download or purchase software from trusted, reputable sources
Make backups of important files
MYDOOM DETAILS
From: random e-mail address
To: address of the recipient
Subject: random words
Message body: several different mail error messages, such as: Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available
Attachment (with a textfile icon): random name ending with ZIP, BAT, CMD, EXE, PIF or SCR extension
When a user clicks on the attachment, the worm will start Notepad, filled with random characters
Mydoom questions? Click here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3441525.stm
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