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Sharing out the Nobel prize
Three prizes should be awarded each year
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The stories behind three extremely popular scientific images
First light for attophysics
Physicists have used an attosecond X-ray source to directly measure the decay of an electron cloud in an atom for the first time
Molecules power nanoscale computers
Scientists have made tiny mechanical logic circuits from cascading molecules
Quantum logic: to be, or NOT to be?
Physicists demonstrate a quantum NOT gate for the first time
Lasers target hard drugs
Laser spectroscopy could be used to detect heroin and morphine
INTEGRAL takes off
The European Space Agency has launched the most sensitive ever gamma-ray observatory
The Milky Way’s dark secret
It’s official: there is a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
Caesium joins the condensates
Caesium has become the seventh element to form a Bose condensate
Lithium joins the superconductors
When subjected to high pressures lithium has the highest superconducting transition temperature of any element
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