Thomas Gold: 1920 – 2004
Maverick astronomer and geoscientist dies aged 84
Extraterrestrial impact created in the lab
Small-scale meteoritic impact could shed light on processes in larger collisions
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New particle baffles physicists
Meson decays defy the rule book at Fermilab
Teleportation breaks new ground
Two groups teleport information between ions for the first time
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Astrophysics project wins outreach award
Dutch school children plan to study the origins of cosmic rays
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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
