Bill Bryson bags book prize
Best-selling travel writer scoops leading prize for science books
Self-assembly made easy
Electric fields could challenge micro-tweezers in the electronics industry
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Microscopy moves to the picoscale
Higher-harmonic approach reveals surfaces in more detail than ever before
Earthquakes power up
Power laws, scale-free networks and earthquakes
Microfluids change direction
Making a rectifier for microfluidic integrated circuits
Tiny apertures with a big future
Sub-wavelength apertures prove no obstacle for light
Gravitational lensing brings extrasolar planets into focus
Astronomers have demonstrated a third way to detect extrasolar planets
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Over the top
Precision measurements of the mass of the top quark at Fermilab allow for a heavier Higgs boson
Elephants turn to seismic communication
Rayleigh waves may help the largest of the mammals to talk to each other
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Nanobulbs make their debut
Chinese physicists have used carbon nanotubes as the filament in a light bulb
Read article: Nanobulbs make their debut
