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Humans

Where Ph.D.s pay off

Salaries for full-time scientists and engineers in the United States have generally outpaced inflation, but academic researchers tend to earn substantially less than their counterparts in industry and government.

Animals

Whys Guy

Interested in seeing an exploding watermelon, using liquid nitrogen to make ice cream, or knowing why a hurricane spins? Physicist Mats Selen of the University of Illinois has appeared regularly on a local morning TV program to demonstrate a wide variety of physical and chemical phenomena. View video clips of these entertaining presentations. Requires Windows […]

Materials Science

Charging gold with a single electron

Dropping a single electron onto a gold atom with a scanning tunneling microscope converts gold from its neutral state to an ionic state.