Detectors and sensors Research update Mechanical ear makes its debut Researchers make life-size model of the cochlea Read article: Mechanical ear makes its debut
Microscopy Research update Looking at electrons without touching Atomic force microscopes can probe single-electron effects in quantum dots Read article: Looking at electrons without touching
Transport properties Research update Wolf prize goes to atomic physicist Daniel Kleppner of MIT has won the 2005 Wolf prize Read article: Wolf prize goes to atomic physicist
Biophysics Research update Devices controlled by thought move closer New research could benefit people with strokes and spinal cord injuries Read article: Devices controlled by thought move closer
Stars and solar physics Research update All change for stellar evolution New values for the rate of formation of carbon-12 could force astrophysicists to revamp models of how stars form Read article: All change for stellar evolution
Cosmology Research update Galaxy surveys put cosmology on sound footing Astrophysicists have linked the large-scale structure of the universe to the early universe
Soft matter and liquids Research update Why stalactites are all similar Computer model predicts how limestone structures grow in underground caves Read article: Why stalactites are all similar
Stars and solar physics Research update X-ray satellite chalks up black hole first Astronomers see material complete a full orbit around a supermassive black hole
Microscopy Research update Making microscopes go faster New approach improves the time resolution of AFMs
Transport properties Research update Nanotubes respond to gas attacks Collisions lead to changes in the electronic properties of single nanotubes
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