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Headline news RSS feedMotion 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