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  1. Earth

    Outside-In: Clearing up how cloud droplets freeze

    A fresh look at old experimental data suggests that water droplets in clouds freeze from the outside inward rather than from their core outward.

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  2. 19202

    What is reported in this article is a new application of an old idea. In the 1950s and early 1960s, engineers would check a computer by setting a radio beside the central processing unit to pick up the electromagnetic signals put out by switching vacuum tubes and, later, transistors. By programming so that the switching […]

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  3. Computing

    Loony Tunes: Bugs blare in software set to music

    A novel way of converting computer programs into familiar-sounding music helps programmers locate errors in their code.