News: June 2005
How do solids melt?
Jun 30, 2005
Colloid crystals shed new light on the transition from solid to liquid
Magnetic surprise for liquids
Jun 29, 2005
Magnetic moments come and go in Mercury and other liquid metals
Europe beats Japan to ITER prize
Jun 28, 2005
Massive fusion experiment will be built at Cadarache in France
Plasma accelerators move on
Jun 27, 2005
Lasers take electrons to record energies for table-top devices
New limits for exotic molecules
Jun 23, 2005
It is not possible to make a hydrogen-antihydrogen molecule
Vortices seen in Fermi gas
Jun 22, 2005
Clear evidence for a new type of superfluid has been seen in a rotating ultracold gas
Strange turn for protons
Jun 20, 2005
Short-lived strange quarks are needed to explain the structure of protons
Superconducting nanowires pulse to a new beat
Jun 17, 2005
Devices made with DNA templates exhibit novel forms of resistance oscillations
Entanglement made simple
Jun 17, 2005
Researchers have demonstrated quantum entanglement in six dimensions
Background neutrinos join the limelight
Jun 16, 2005
Astrophysicists have seen evidence for tiny ripples in the cosmic neutrino background
"Magic" numbers remain magic
Jun 15, 2005
Experiments on silicon-42 nuclei shed new light on the nucleus
"Smoking" grass leads to nanotubes
Jun 13, 2005
Researchers in China have reported a novel way to make carbon nanotubes
X-rays reveal more about exotic atoms
Jun 10, 2005
Particle physicists have explored a form of hydrogen in which the electron is replaced by a negative kaon
Molecular surprise in one dimension
Jun 9, 2005
Ultracold atoms reveal novel behaviour in optical lattice
Propane powers fuel cells
Jun 8, 2005
Self-heating device offers new possibilities for portable devices
US bubble set to burst
Jun 7, 2005
More than 20 states could experience a crash in house prices next year
Oxygen loses its magnetism under pressure
Jun 3, 2005
A solid-state transformation that physicists had long thought might occur has finally been observed
New light on early stars
Jun 2, 2005
'First generation stars' may have formed from the explosion of an older star
How animals find things
Jun 1, 2005
Physicists have discovered the fastest way to find a hidden object