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?
A mole of Earths
Could there be 10^22 Earthlike planets in the universe?
Science that's hard to swallow
It's not every day you get to see an Ig Nobel laureate in the flesh -- and even rarer to watch one swallow 12 inches of steel...
Galileo's inconvenient truth
Having seen Al Gore's keynote address, I can understand why his film "An Inconvenient Truth" struck such a chord with viewers...
'Promiscuous networking'
I'd thought that the economic crisis might be the elephant in the conference room, but I was only half right...
