Features – August 2008
A light in the dark? 7 comments
For the last 10 years physicists in Italy have been claiming to have directly detected dark matter, which is believed to make up 23% of the universe. Edwin Cartlidge finds out why their results continue to create controversy
Superfluidity: three people, two papers, one prize
Most accounts of the controversial discovery of superfluid helium by Peter Kapitza, Jack Allen and Don Misener are often incomplete or simply wrong. Allan Griffin tries to set the record straight
Remapping the quantum frontier
A full-scale universal quantum computer may still be a long way off, but the quest for this goal is opening up new areas of science and producing useful applications and techniques along the way. Christopher Monroe and Mikhail Lukin reveal a few of the most exciting developments