Playing stop and go with light
Light brought to a halt in ultracold gas could be used in quantum computation
Physics and the stock market: playing with fire
Combustion theory predicts when shares will jump in value
Going with the flow
Small-scale liquid effects speed up micro-fluid devices
Superconductivity: it’s in the genes
The very stuff we're made of can act as a superconductor
New light on dark clouds
Light from background stars illuminates 'star nurseries'
Photonics and particles win 2001 King Faisal prize
Optical communications and cosmology are recognised by the prize
Read article: The Milky Way’s last meal
The Milky Way’s last meal
Wandering stars could be remains of a small galaxy absorbed long ago
On the road to two-proton radioactivity
Radioactivity is the transformation of an atomic nucleus by one of several mechanisms. Henry Becquerel observed alpha particles: helium-4 clusters consisting of two protons and two neutrons ejected fr...
Organic magnetism finally demystified
In the January issue of Physics World, Kazuyoshi Tanaka of the Department of Molecular Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, describes how Bakhyt Narymbetov of the Institute for Molecular Science in O...
Sensors reveal the secrets of car tyres
The best place for these sensors is in the tyres themselves because this is where all the external forces on the car, with the exception of wind resistance and gravity, are felt. In the January issue ...
