New ‘light transistor’ for optical circuits
Devices that run on photons instead of electrons could transmit data at the speed of light
Read article: Zooming in on the Eros asteroid
Zooming in on the Eros asteroid
Images from the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft provide clues to the young solar system
Read article: Jets on Jupiter: first view of an auroral flare
Jets on Jupiter: first view of an auroral flare
The solar wind and the giant planet's magnetic field combine to produce a huge plume
Plutonium puzzle pieced together
A hybrid theory solves the long-standing riddle of the element's structure
Cracking the Brazil nut problem
Segregation in a bowl of nuts may be akin to condensation in gases
Magic material flips refractive index
A radical material with a negative refractive index could revolutionise optoelectronics
Internet aids the spread of computer viruses
The structure of the Internet allows viruses to propagate surprisingly easily
Slingshot test for general relativity
The gravitational pull on a spacecraft could be the best test yet of relativity
Shedding new light on an old effect
Now Troy Stevens and co-workers at the University of Michigan in the US and the Max Planck Institute of Solid State Physics in Stuttgart, Germany, have shown that Cerenkov radiation can also be emitte...
Telling left from right in the nucleus
Now a team of nuclear physicists in the US, led by Krzysztof Starosta of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, has found the first evidence for the chirality of atomic nuclei (Phys. Rev. Le...
