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...
Ultrafast electron diffraction shapes up
Now Ahmed Zewail and co-workers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a method of ultrafast electron diffraction that can resolve both the structure of a molecule and its dynamics d...
Clusters challenge common sense
Astronomers have long known that an isolated gravitational system, such as a star, has a negative heat capacity: when energy is added it expands and cools. Now Hellmut Haberland and co-workers at the ...
Read article: New metallic superconductor makes an immediate impact
New metallic superconductor makes an immediate impact
Superconductivity – the complete loss of electrical resistance in certain metals when cooled to low temperatures – continues to hold surprises. Hot on the heels of the discovery of charge-...
Lithography teams up with liquid crystals
A traditional printing process could help cutting-edge liquid crystal technology
Single charge raises the current standard
The ability to control a single positive charge could improve our definition of the amp
Grand challenges for physics in the US
Experts identify the most pressing problems in physics today
Read article: Linear collider race gets serious
Linear collider race gets serious
Competition hots up for the world's next major accelerator
