Read article: General relativity passes Cassini test Gravity Research update General relativity passes Cassini test Einstein is still right
Read article: New look for ball lightning Plasma physics Research update New look for ball lightning Rydberg atoms may explain cohesion in ball lightning
Optical physics Research update Hollow fibre carries megawatt pulses Optical physicists have made a photonic-band gap fibre that can transmit megawatt pulses
Read article: Nanowires line up for plastic electronics Transport properties Research update Nanowires line up for plastic electronics Researchers have made cost-effective high-performance thin-film transistors using nanowires and nanoribbons
Read article: First light for one-atom laser Quantum optics Research update First light for one-atom laser Novel device pushes laser physics to the limit
Metrology Research update Silicon joins race to redefine the kilogram A new measurement of the Avogadro constant could allow the unit of mass to be defined in terms of atomic and fundamental constants
Read article: Bose-Einstein condensates break temperature record Optical physics Research update Bose-Einstein condensates break temperature record Physicists have cooled a gas of sodium atoms down to less than a nanokelvin
Read article: Carbon dating confirms origins of biblical tunnel Microscopy Research update Carbon dating confirms origins of biblical tunnel Geologists have used radiometric dating to confirm the age of a water tunnel mentioned in the Bible
Nuclear physics Research update Edward Teller dies The “father of the H-bomb” died yesterday at the age of 95
Surfaces and interfaces Research update Gold lights up biological cells Biophysicists have developed a new optical technique to image proteins