Semiconductors and electronics Research update Semiconductors stride ahead Medicine, communications and computing could benefit from advances in semiconductor science
Surfaces and interfaces Research update Entanglement passes screen test Physicists reveal the quantum nature of surface excitations for the first time
Quantum optics Research update Defects combine to make perfect devices Physicists have shown it is possible to make near-perfect devices from defective components
Quantum optics Research update Magnetic spins to store quantum information Long-lived spin clusters in magnetic compounds could be ‘entangled’
Quantum optics Research update Single photons to soak up data New technique could lead to super-efficient quantum communication
Semiconductors and electronics Research update Quantum dots count microwave photons Single-photon detector could boost fundamental research and new technologies
Quantum optics Research update Tantalizing evidence for molecular condensation Physicists claim to have made a Bose-Einstein condensate of molecules
Read article: Condensates get longer lives Quantum optics Research update Condensates get longer lives Perpetual Bose-Einstein condensates could make 'continuous’ atom lasers
Quantum optics Research update Photons get the quantum cloning treatment Physicists make good copies of individual quantum systems for the first time
Structure and dynamics Research update Cold atoms carry light pulses Physicists transport and modify trapped light pulses for the first time
Optics & Photonics Briefing This issue explores lasers and detectors, solar power, medical imaging and high-resolution displays