Understanding the Boxing Day earthquake
GPS data have confirmed that the earthquake that caused the Indian Ocean tsunami happened very quickly
Fingernails store personal information
Japanese researchers are using femtosecond laser pulses to write data into human fingernails
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Bottoms down for quarks
Particle physicists have observed a rare process
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Exotic meson challenges rules
New particle sets puzzle for theorists
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Swimming around in circles
Researchers learn more about the behaviour of E. coli near solid surfaces
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Crash exposes comet’s inner secrets
"Deep Impact" has successfully crashed into comet Tempel 1
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How do solids melt?
Colloid crystals shed new light on the transition from solid to liquid
Magnetic surprise for liquids
Magnetic moments come and go in Mercury and other liquid metals
Europe beats Japan to ITER prize
Massive fusion experiment will be built at Cadarache in France
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Plasma accelerators move on
Lasers take electrons to record energies for table-top devices
