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News

Physicists create new slow-light technique

Feb 8, 2012

Electromagnetically induced transparency seen in nuclear system for first time

Raman technique peers into cabin baggage

Feb 7, 2012 5 comments

New scanner could ease airport liquids ban

Getting to the froth of the matter

Feb 2, 2012 6 comments

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

In depth

Between the lines

Jan 26, 2012

A new biography of Stephen Hawking and a history of radioactivity, reviewed by Margaret Harris

Let there be a year of light

Dec 15, 2011 1 comment

Luisa Cifarelli calls for 2015 to be the International Year of Light

Between the lines: Christmas special

Dec 15, 2011

Books on time travel, calculus, science experiments for children and more, reviewed by Margaret Harris, Matin Durrani and Tushna Commissariat

Between the lines

Nov 24, 2011

Books on fundamental constants and the "science of wonder", plus a comic-book guide to the universe, reviewed by Matin Durrani and Margaret Harris