Chasing the Green Comet
If you are blessed with clear skies tonight you might want to look to the heavens...
UK media meet astronomy
The International Year of Astronomy kicks off its UK celebrations with a shindig at zero longitude...
White Paper for little green men
NASA scientists help draw up strategy to aid the search for Earth-like planets
Fight the 'galaxy wars'…
...and lend astronomy a helping hand.
Interview with Federico Capasso
Co-inventor of the quantum cascade laser talks about the challenges of commercialization...
Fun science at the exhibit hall
I grew up calling these things Rube Goldberg machines, but I'm told the British term is "Heath Robinson contraptions"...
Mobile phones and metamaterials
Why are metamaterial-based antennas on hold?
A prediction from string theory?
It seems that heavy ions, string theory and cold atoms have more in common than we realized...
On the origin of freebies
The coolest stuff on offer at the AAAS exhibit hall has a chilly source...
T-shaped scientists
Are you more T-shaped or pi-shaped?
