Female-friendly physics
Women physicists spell out what needs to be done to close the academic gender gap
Condensate cracks Fermi gas
Physicists probe the interactions between distinct types of atomic gas
Could the end be in sight for ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays?
Recent studies suggest that cosmic rays come from cosmologically distant sources
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Geckos’ feet get sticky from static
Van der Waals forces – not capillary action – allow the lizards to walk on the ceiling
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Martin Deutsch 1917 – 2002
The physicist who first detected positronium dies at 85
Read article: Martin Deutsch 1917 – 2002
Climate prediction gets a boost
New satellite will track radiation flow across the Western hemisphere
Waves and the sounds of science
New research probes the formation of air bubbles in breaking waves
Innovations boost disabled literacy
Physicists have developed tools to help disabled people to write and blind people to read
Hope fades for comet mission
NASA’s CONTOUR spacecraft is silent, presumed broken
Anti-matter made easy – on paper
Particle physicists have discovered a new . . . font!
