Gas-phase sorting of fullerenes, biomolecules and carbon nanotubes
a novel technique to separate molecules and nanoparticles by their polarizability to mass ratio in the gas phase has been reported by Hendrik Ulbricht and co-workers from the University of Vienna, Austria. Based on Talbot-Lau matter wave deflectometry the group has previously showed that molecule properties like polarizabilities can be measured in free flight with high precision (Phys. Rev. A 76 013607, 2007)

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Physicists can now routinely exploit the counterintuitive properties of quantum mechanics to transmit, encrypt and even process information. But as Markus Aspelmeyer and Anton Zeilinger describe, the technological advances of quantum information science are now enabling researchers to readdress fundamental puzzles raised by quantum theory

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or How experiments in a small Viennese lab may reveal the answer to one of the enduring riddles of science:Do we create the world just by looking at it?

This is a reprint of an article that originally appeared in Seed magazine, Volume 2, Issue 16, May/June 1008. Included here by permission.