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Motion of exploding stars could shed light on dark energy Jul 24, 2008

Cosmologists call for decades-long survey of type-Ia supernovae

Liquid mirror shows promise for adaptive optics Jul 24, 2008

Device is controlled by an array of magnetic coils

Moving to the music Jul 24, 2008 2 comments

Doppler effect can make happy music sound sad, says physicist

Bubble-fusion scientist to appeal over misconduct charge Jul 23, 2008 1 comment

Rusi Taleyarkhan plans to fight back against findings of Purde University investigation

Nanotube cantilever weighs up Jul 21, 2008

'Double-walled' nanotube measures mass of single gold atom

Football fans cheer to the science of solitons Jul 18, 2008

Experiment kicks-off on the bicentenary of the Netherlands's Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences

Graphene has record-breaking strength Jul 17, 2008 9 comments

Stiffness of the material is 'off the chart'

Pumped atom laser brings high-precision measurements in sight Jul 17, 2008

Technique uses a second atomic condensate to feed the laser

Electron microscope sees single hydrogen atoms Jul 16, 2008 3 comments

Placing samples on graphene substrate allows light atoms such as hydrogen to be observed

BaBar gets to the bottom of bottomonia Jul 16, 2008

First measurement of ground state could improve our understanding of the early universe

'Anaconda' could be the best way to harness wave power Jul 15, 2008 2 comments

Huge rubber tube will be cheap and almost maintenance free, say researchers

Thin-film dyes boost solar cells Jul 12, 2008

Concentrators increase solar cells' power output by an order of magnitude

Japanese particle-physics leader dies Jul 11, 2008

Yoji Totsuka, former head of the KEK high-energy physics lab, dies at 66

Quote me fairly, I'm a scientist! Jul 10, 2008 5 comments

Survey indicates that scientists get along with the media better than they thought

Fitting food for physics Jul 10, 2008 2 comments

Social physicists try to understand why national dishes endure

Method could cut number of vaccinations by half Jul 9, 2008

Scientists devise new strategy to improve efficiency of immunization

Do cosmic rays get bogged down in the cosmos? Jul 8, 2008 3 comments

Pierre Auger and HiRes observatories confirm rapid drop-off in number of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays reaching Earth

Nuclear fallout used to spot fake art Jul 4, 2008

New technique identifies unnatural isotopes in post-war forgeries

Nanotubes get sorted Jul 4, 2008

Surface grabs hold of semiconducting tubes

Voyager 2 reports from the edge of the solar system Jul 4, 2008 5 comments

NASA mission confirms that the solar system is “squashed” by interstellar space