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News

Carbon swaddles baby neutron star

Nov 4, 2009 5 comments

Nascent surface too hot for hydrogen

Dark-matter paper raises questions over data sharing

Oct 29, 2009 25 comments

Is it unfair that NASA data are immediately made available to all?

Special relativity passes key test

Oct 28, 2009 23 comments

Lorentz invariance holds at the Planck length

Laser recreates X-rays emitted by a black hole

Oct 26, 2009 4 comments

Lab-based experiment could further our understanding of black holes and neutron stars

In depth

Recipes for planet formation

Nov 2, 2009 1 comment

Michael R Meyer describes how studies of extrasolar planets are helping us to understand how planetary systems form and evolve

Human spaceflight: science or spectacle?

Nov 2, 2009 2 comments

The big debate: David Clements and Ian Crawford spar over whether human spaceflight is worth the effort

Prince of darkness

Oct 13, 2009 4 comments

Nuclear astrophysicist Alex Murphy shares his views on the nature of dark matter and gets excited over the forthcoming restart of the ZEPLIN III detector

Of gluons, atoms and strings

Sep 1, 2009

An unusual alliance between physicists who study ultrahot plasmas and ultracold atoms is yielding intriguing results – and may even lead to an experimental test for string theory, as Barbara Jacak reveals