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Genome from a bottle
Back Story: Cracking the code.
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Law & Disorder: A Companion
More resources about how physicists and philosophers understand time.
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Law & Disorder
Physicists keep trying to explain why time flows one way.
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Melting at the microscale
Studying sea ice close-up may improve climate models.
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Engineering a cooler Earth
Researchers brainstorm radical ways to counter climate change.
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A pregnant question
How antidepressants may subtly alter a growing baby’s brain.
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Elemental escape
Making superheavies may reveal island of stability.
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I, Mold
Conquering the rising tide of infection is hindered by the many similarities between humans and fungi.
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Physics on the Edge
Over the past couple of years, researchers have made several new discoveries involving bismuth telluride and other related materials, known as topological insulators.
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Lasing Beyond Light
Laser physicists have set their sights on new types of waves — manufacturing beams of sound, creating plasma swells and looking for ripples in spacetime.
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Inventing the Light Fantastic
The history of the laser: An idea that began with Albert Einstein inspired a race to create a special beam of light that has since infiltrated numerous aspects of everyday life.
