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Cool sun could host habitable planet

New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a cool star

Spider webs strengthened by local sacrifices

Arachnid silks could inspire improved building designs

Magnetic fields put the brakes on millisecond pulsars

Research could also help better determine pulsar age

Getting to the froth of the matter

Physicists create the "ideal foam" in the lab for the first time

Frequency comb reaches extreme ultraviolet

Device could boost study of fundamental constants

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Closing the gender gap

Number of women in UK physics on the rise

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New frontiers in medical physics

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Top 10 books of 2011

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Fermilab's next frontier

Margaret Harris learns about Fermilab's plans for the post-Tevatron era

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Robert P Crease proposes pledges to help voters to evaluate US presidential candidates

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Parting the clouds

Arnold Wolfendale reviews Earth: the Operator’s Manual by Richard Alley

Copernicus's revolutionary moment

John Zarnecki reviews Stephen Pyne's Voyager: Seeking New Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery

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