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Cool sun could host habitable planet
Feb 3, 2012
New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a cool star
Spider webs strengthened by local sacrifices
Feb 3, 2012 1 comment
Arachnid silks could inspire improved building designs
Magnetic fields put the brakes on millisecond pulsars
Feb 2, 2012 2 comments
Research could also help better determine pulsar age
Getting to the froth of the matter
Feb 2, 2012 1 comment
Physicists create the "ideal foam" in the lab for the first time
Frequency comb reaches extreme ultraviolet
Feb 1, 2012 4 comments
Device could boost study of fundamental constants
Ancient Islamic architects created perfect quasicrystals
Jan 31, 2012 7 comments
Patterns made with nothing more than a compass and a straight edge
Rydberg atom simulates Trojan asteroids
Jan 30, 2012 3 comments
Jupiter's companions recreated on an atomic scale
Carbon membranes excel at separating liquids
Jan 27, 2012 7 comments
Ultrathin films have highly selective permeability
Graphene could be a perfect absorber of light
Jan 26, 2012 7 comments
Periodic patterning confines light, claim physicists
Online tools are 'distraction' for science
Jan 25, 2012 18 comments
Report says journals remain "the gold standard" for disseminating results
Plasmonic metamaterials could make 'gecko toes'
Jan 24, 2012 1 comment
Simulation reveals surprising attraction
Isotopic purity boosts graphene's heat conduction
Jan 23, 2012 4 comments
Pure carbon-12 is a better conductor
Neutrons revive Heisenberg's first take on uncertainty
Jan 20, 2012 10 comments
Experiment quantifies error and disturbance
Early supermassive black holes could grow it alone
Jan 19, 2012 4 comments
Simulation shows cold gas boosts growth
