Did interplanetary dust seed life on Earth?
Dust grains are more likely to have initiated life than comet impacts
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First snapshot of superconductor twisters
Troublesome magnetic vortices can now be anchored by crystal defects
Biophysicist scoops 2001 Dirac medal
Physics-based calculations branch out into biology to win the Italian prize
Counting photons in a flash
New photon detector could spot faulty computer parts and aid communication from Mars
Spotting craziness in cloud-cuckoo-land
Few things in life are utterly black or white. Even scientific ideas come in shades of “truth”, which is arrived at differently in different kinds of science. There are other gradations too, starting with theories that we are pretty damn sure are right and that we accept without question, such as Newton’s three laws of […]
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Helping ‘big G’ get back on track
New measurements suggest that the gravitational constant is too small
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Condensates create Josephson arrays
A network of superconducting junctions could give insights into diverse fields of science
Element 118 disappears two years after it was discovered
Physicists fail to repeat the ground-breaking experiment that created the heaviest element
Can phonons help explain high-temperature superconductivity?
Phonons may hold the key to the behaviour of the cuprate superconductors
Where did all the antimatter go?
Measurements of B mesons confirm that the Standard Model of particle physics cannot explain why the universe is made of matter rather than antimatter
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