Physics

  1. Tech

    When love-hate is materially good

    Researchers copy nature's water-loving, water-repelling ways to make smarter stuff

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  2. Physics

    New waves for safe flying

    Scientists are perfecting a new generation of airport scanning machines.

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  3. Physics

    The newest superheavy in town

    Superheavy element forged in lab is a first.

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  4. Planets

    Mercury’s magnetic twisters

    The planet's strange atmosphere may have a lot to do with the sun.

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  5. Chemistry

    The memory of a material

    A popular polymer can remember what shape it was in.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Making light of sleep

    Teens are prone to sleep problems, but a little sunshine could help.

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  7. Physics

    The hottest soup in New York

    A quark-gluon plasma reaches the highest temperature ever measured in a lab.

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  8. Tech

    The science of disappearing

    Invisibility cloaks and other new materials that play with light are in the works.

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  9. Physics

    Small but WISE

    A new telescope will scan the entire sky and see (infra)red.

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  10. Physics

    Scientists explain mystery of triangular snowflakes

    A snowflake's fall helps determine its shape.

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  11. Physics

    See Comet Lulin

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  12. Physics

    Earth from the inside out

    An invisible particle sheds light on the mysterious interior of the Earth.

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