In the March issue of Physics World, Mike Lockwood of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Southampton University, UK, and Duncan H Mackay of the University of St Andrews, UK, underline the significance...
I remember arguing long and hard with a friend at a campsite in deepest Bavaria about how many stars one can see in the night sky with the unaided human eye. The answer, according to this charming new...
Pulsars are rotating neutron stars that emit radiation, which is seen from Earth as a series of highly regular pulses. Anomalous x-ray pulsars (AXPs) are not, however, powered like most pulsars. AXPs ...
Dago de Leeuw, a physicist at Philips Research Laboratories in the Netherlands, leads a team of physicists recognized for their pioneering research in plastic electronics. De Leeuw and colleagues from...