Physics

  1. Materials Science

    Material Scientists: Cast Your Vote

    You can vote early, if not officially.

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  2. Physics

    An attractive source for spintronics

    Discovery may lead to battery that generates magnetic currents

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  3. Physics

    Nobel Prize in physics shared for work that unifies forces of nature

    Understanding of broken symmetry has been crucial to the standard model of particle physics.

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  4. Physics

    Charging up fuel injection

    A new device uses an electric field to increase cars’ gas mileage.

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  5. Chemistry

    Oops! A Fluorescent Light Breaks

    Toxic mercury will be released whenever a fluorescent lamp breaks.

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  6. Physics

    Shaping up the sun

    The most accurate measurements yet of the sun’s shape show that magnetic activity plays a role in making the sun appear more oval than it really is.

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  7. Chemistry

    Fluorescent bulbs offer mercury advantage

    Featured blog: Switching to light bulbs that contain mercury might, surprisingly, reduce overall mercury releases to the environment. Plus, what to do when you break your fluorescent bulb.

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  8. Physics

    Diamonds engage at the nano scale

    Manipulating the quantum properties of diamond impurities makes diamond into a kind of microscope that could, for example, reveal the inner working of cells.

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  9. Chemistry

    Obama’s brain trust

    Featured blog: Sixty-one Nobel laureates sign a letter explaining why they support Barack Obama's run for the presidency.

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  10. Physics

    Photons caught in the act

    Physicists manipulated a microwave pulse and could essentially watch it transition from a quantum state into the realm of classical physics.

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  11. Space

    Large Hadron Collider shuts down early for the winter

    CERN announces that needed repairs, plus high fuel costs, will delay the first planned collisions until next spring.

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  12. Climate

    (Political) party animals

    Featured blog: When it comes to attitudes about climate change, the chasm between Democrats and Republicans is wide. Political-polling analysts speculate that a McCain win in November might do more than an Obama victory to win over the minds of climate-change skeptics.

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