How do stones skip?
Physicist reveals the science behind stone skipping
Nobel laureates oppose war against Iraq
41 prize-winners have signed a declaration that opposes war
Life, death and physics
Physicists might have explained the “mortality plateau”
Sand-dune science creeps ahead
Dunes made in the lab could help communities beset by encroaching desert
Noise threatens Moore’s Law
Thermal noise may soon put an end to Moore’s Law
Anti-bubbles hint at fragile economic prospects
Physicists predict a shaky future for the stock market using statistical analysis
Easy escape for Martian meteorites
Smaller impacts than previously imagined can eject meteorites into interplanetary space
New director at ICTP
Katepalli Sreenivasan will lead the International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Per Bak 1948–2002
Danish physicist who helped to develop "self-organized criticality" dies
Beer paper wins Ig Nobel physics prize
A German physicist has received the 2002 Ig Nobel prize in physics
