A real gem on arXiv
I spent an hour or so this morning trawling through the arXiv preprint server where I spotted "Growth of Diamond Films from Tequila"...
Cold-fusion demonstration: an update
Several of you have asked when I'm going to give you an update on Yoshiaki Arata's cold-fusion demonstration...
Cylinders of silence
A paper published today presents a "feasible" recipe for creating a metamaterial that could completely cloak an object from sound...
Astronomy in the dock
Earlier this week our Paris correspondent was back in her hometown of Liverpool...
Going once…a first edition of Copernicus’s magnum opus
Most of you will never have raised an arm at Christie's auction house...
Read article: Microscience 2008 offers a hands-on approach to microscopy
Microscience 2008 offers a hands-on approach to microscopy
Workshops and Learning Zones will give delegates the chance to try out the latest instruments
Should we scrap science news?
Here's a statistic for you, taken from a website called Sense About Science...
The hunt for ‘God’s particle’?!
We have Leon Lederman to blame...
A cool $50m for theoretical physics
In my line of work I don't usually get to talk to multi-millionaires...
Superconductivity mystery deepens
I have been closely following events concerning a new class of iron-based superconductors...
