Physics
- Chemistry
Prizes award big ideas about small things
Carbon and IVF win big in this year’s Nobel prizes.
- Tech
When love-hate is materially good
Researchers copy nature's water-loving, water-repelling ways to make smarter stuff
- Physics
New waves for safe flying
Scientists are perfecting a new generation of airport scanning machines.
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- Planets
Mercury’s magnetic twisters
The planet's strange atmosphere may have a lot to do with the sun.
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- Health & Medicine
Making light of sleep
Teens are prone to sleep problems, but a little sunshine could help.
- Physics
The hottest soup in New York
A quark-gluon plasma reaches the highest temperature ever measured in a lab.
- Tech
The science of disappearing
Invisibility cloaks and other new materials that play with light are in the works.
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- Physics
Scientists explain mystery of triangular snowflakes
A snowflake's fall helps determine its shape.
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