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News: August 2005
Big stars like to feed from dust
Aug 31, 2005
New observations suggest that massive stars form through accretion
Foreign atoms trigger superconductivity in carbon
Aug 30, 2005
Physicists have made a new superconductor
Critical breakthrough
Aug 25, 2005
Superconductivity has been seen in a metal in a high magnetic field
How the Earth spins
Aug 25, 2005
The inner core of the Earth is spinning faster than the rest of the planet
Fibres control the speed of light
Aug 23, 2005
New approach to fast and slow light could have real-world applications
John Bahcall dies
Aug 18, 2005
The world's leading authority on solar neutrinos has died at the age 70
Photonic crystals move into new areas
Aug 17, 2005
Photonic quasicrystals and table-top accelerators are the latest breakthroughs for these remarkable materials
Number theory
Aug 16, 2005
New index indicated the importance and impact of work by individual researchers
The ups and downs of doping
Aug 11, 2005
Impurity atoms are both good and bad for high-temperature superconductors
Cluster makes turbulent breakthrough
Aug 10, 2005
Researchers have discovered a new type of vortex in the Earth's magnetosphere
Going for gold
Aug 9, 2005
Researchers have made a new gold alloy that could have applications in jewellery, electronics and elsewhere
Dirac Medal goes to condensed matter physicists
Aug 8, 2005
Prize recognizes work of Sam Edwards at Cambridge and Patrick Lee at MIT
Hydrogen result causes controversy
Aug 5, 2005
Does hydrogen contain a previously unknown "hydrino" state that could be used as new source of energy?
Just add salt
Aug 4, 2005
Adding a pinch of sodium chloride helps physicists to make better magnetic nanoparticles
Purity pays off for nanotubes
Aug 2, 2005
New approach improves performance for carbon-based devices
