The Milky Way’s dark secret
It’s official: there is a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
Caesium joins the condensates
Caesium has become the seventh element to form a Bose condensate
Lithium joins the superconductors
When subjected to high pressures lithium has the highest superconducting transition temperature of any element
Hollow core cuts Raman thresholds
Photonic fibres could shift gas-based nonlinear optics into a new regime
X-rays illuminate nova explosions
Astronomers assemble the first “before and after” pictures of a nova
Nobel Prize rewards neutrino astrophysics and X-ray astronomy
Ray Davis, Masatoshi Koshiba and Riccardo Giacconi share the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics
Beer paper wins Ig Nobel physics prize
A German physicist has received the 2002 Ig Nobel prize in physics
Quantum key travels record distance
Scientists have set a new record for free-space quantum cryptography
Pugwash urges end to weapons
Britain must decide now not to build successor to Trident, say scientists
Invisible circuits in a flash
A new transparent conductor could revolutionize optoelectronics
