Black holes go supersonic
Now Luis Garay, James Anglin, Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller at the University of Innsbruck in Austria have proposed a realistic way to make an artificial “sonic” black hole in a tabletop ...
Speed skating for water droplets
Super-fast drops could improve printing, lithography and surgical techniques
Old riddle illuminates solar system’s birth
Ancient paradox lends a hand to modern astronomy
DIY black holes could supply the missing link
Benchtop 'black holes' could bridge the gap between relativity and quantum mechanics
11 key questions about the universe
US experts identify the hottest topics in particle physics and astronomy
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Playing stop and go with light
Light brought to a halt in ultracold gas could be used in quantum computation
Cell-phone capacity multiplies
Polarized electromagnetic waves boost the capacity of radio signals
Read article: Cell-phone capacity multiplies
Night-time on Venus
Signals from the dark side of Venus shed light on our neighbour's atmosphere
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
