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News: May 2006
Property market set to slump
May 31, 2006
US house prices have reached record levels and could soon be heading for a fall, says physicist
How to make an object invisible
May 26, 2006
Theorists believe that metamterials could be used to make objects invisible
Heavy ions feel the squeeze
May 25, 2006
Physicists perform the first experiment in which heavy ions are fired at solids under high pressure
Amateur astronomers prove their mettle
May 24, 2006
A new extra-solar planet has been discovered with the help of a group of amateurs.
Silver clusters go magnetic
May 23, 2006
Simulations suggest that silver atoms become magnetic when arranged into clusters
LEDs move into the ultraviolet
May 17, 2006
A diode that emits light at the shortest wavelength is made
Quantum gases in 3D
May 17, 2006
Physicists have trapped bosons and fermions together in a three-dimensional optical lattice
New look for "Newton's bucket"
May 12, 2006
Physicists create six-cornered polygons on the surface of water
Ships shed light on geomagnetic field
May 11, 2006
Data from old ships' logs suggest the weakening of Earth's magnetic field is a recent phenomenon
How Triton met Neptune
May 10, 2006
New model suggests Neptune's largest moon was originally part of a binary system
Hottest topic in physics revealed
May 5, 2006
A new index shows that carbon nanotubes are the most widely studied topic in physics
Cyclic universe could explain cosmological constant
May 5, 2006
Theoretical model of the universe could explain why the acceleration of the universe is expanding
Plastics go metallic
May 3, 2006
A new method can make polyaniline films with all the hallmarks of a metal