Read article: Doing science in the open
Online networking tools are pervasive, but why have scientists been so slow to adopt many of them? Michael Nielsen explains how we can build a better culture of online collaboration
Read article: Web life: Hyperphysics
So what is the site about? Hyperphysics is a network of cross-linked articles on topics from acceleration to the Zeeman effect — essentially an online physics encyclopedia. Unlike some sites fea...
‘Carpet cloak’ shrouds objects from red light, claim researchers
Read article: Bouncing spins flip direction
Controlling spins without an oscillating field
Read article: Graphene made easy
New technique produces large-area, high-quality samples of wonder material
Read article: DNA walks the line
Coordinated motion could drive molecular machinery
Read article: Symmetry boosts spin’s lifetime
Physicists tune quantum well for spintronics
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: Nanotubes flex their muscles
Artificial muscle pulled from CNT array
New calculations suggest no lateral force between moving plates in a vacuum
