Read article: In search of the black swans
The publish-or-perish ethic too often favours a narrow and conservative approach to scientific innovation. Mark Buchanan asks whether we are pushing revolutionary ideas to the margi...
Read article: China experiments with solar-thermal power
1.5 MW facility will be built outside Beijing
New data support alternative process, says physicist
Read article: US pays price for $500m budget blunder
Carbon-capture demonstration plant was cancelled due to miscalculation
Read article: Supernovae recorded in the Antarctic ice
Nitrate levels in ice holds information about historic astronomical events
Read article: NASA missions: late and expensive
Report finds bulk of projects delayed or over budget
Read article: Desert mechanics
Physicists propose mechanism for giant sand dune formation and distribution
Read article: NASA’s carbon-dioxide mission fails
$270m Orbiting Carbon Observatory lost in Pacific Ocean
Read article: Moth eyes inspire more efficient solar cell
Anti-reflective coating based on natural metamaterial
Read article: Can geoengineering cool the climate?
Physicists scrutinize climate intervention
