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Half-life (more or less): physicists are stirred by claims that the sun may change what's unchangeable--the rate of radioactive decay.		Nov 22, 2008	1853
The numbers rarely add up for girls: culture may turn potentially high achievers away from math.		Nov 8, 2008	290
Sun In a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking.	Book review	Nov 8, 2008	273
Manipulating diamond's impurities may lead to finer-scale microscopes: nitrogen atoms could be used as magnetic field detectors.		Oct 25, 2008	396
Galaxy clusters slide to the south: mysterious flow could call universe's uniformity into question.		Oct 25, 2008	656
This bite won't hurt.	Brief article	Oct 11, 2008	105
Proton has a strange cousin: Fermilab finds new particle predicted by standard model.		Sep 27, 2008	296
Quantum physics may offer clues to solving prime number problem: electron energy levels linked to Riemann hypothesis.		Sep 27, 2008	645
Nanoparticles conspire with free radicals: dose of carcinogens could be comparable to smoking.		Sep 13, 2008	544
New coat for spacecraft.	Brief article	Sep 13, 2008	79
Safer blood thinner.	Brief article	Sep 13, 2008	82
Juice boosts and blocks.	Brief article	Sep 13, 2008	75
Team toys with ions to simulate quantum world: manipulations could help design better materials.		Aug 30, 2008	1111
Carbon tubes leave nano behind: colossal filaments could offer practical advantages.		Aug 30, 2008	386
Fingerprints go high-tech: new tests can reveal signs of explosives, drugs.	Brief article	Aug 30, 2008	239
Invisibility is almost within sight: two new materials show promise for cloaking devices.		Aug 30, 2008	357
Quantum effects make [H.sub.2]O weird: bond lengths are different in heavy, light water molecules.		Aug 16, 2008	430
Spotting the smallest atoms.	Brief article	Aug 16, 2008	145
Welcome to the quantum internet: quantum encryption is here, but the laws of physics can do much more than protect privacy.		Aug 16, 2008	2897
Now available in color: fossils: pigment may have been preserved in feathers.		Aug 2, 2008	337
Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science.	Book review	Aug 2, 2008	286
One-way gate mimics 'demon' to trap atoms: barrier could cool gases to very low temperatures.		Jul 19, 2008	690
Small, but super: these 'atoms' can't leap tall buildings in a single bound, but they have special powers.	Cover story	Jun 21, 2008	2555
With a closer look, chemists find molecules switch shapes slowly: findings may challenge theory explaining vibrations.		Jun 7, 2008	684
Naked in the Woods: Joseph Knowles and the Legacy of Frontier Fakery.	Book review	Jun 7, 2008	229
Down with the transistor: new 'memristor' could radically transform computer chips.		May 24, 2008	471
The shape of Beethoven's Ninth: math, music and multidimensional geometry intersect.	Brief article	May 24, 2008	119
Einstein's invisible hand: is relativity making metal act like a noble gas?		Apr 12, 2008	598
Quantum cocoon: diamonds are a physicist's--and perhaps quantum computing's--best friend.	Cover story	Apr 5, 2008	2084
Squid beaks are hardly soft.	Brief article	Apr 5, 2008	272
Live another day: African insect survives drought in glassy state.		Mar 29, 2008	506
Power from heat.	Brief article	Mar 29, 2008	276
Love code: a twist of light only mantis shrimp can see.		Mar 22, 2008	459
Holding up.	Brief article	Mar 22, 2008	129
Neutron vision.	Brief article	Mar 22, 2008	201
A sticky issue.	Brief article	Mar 22, 2008	310
People move like predators.		Mar 22, 2008	454
Black hole of light: laser pulses create model of event horizon.		Mar 8, 2008	464
True blue: electron jumps make protein shine like an LED.		Mar 1, 2008	496
Diamond detectors.	Brief article	Mar 1, 2008	227
Energy in motion: how the nanomachines of life harvest randomness to do the cells' work.		Feb 23, 2008	2005
Birds network too.	Brief article	Feb 23, 2008	291
Nanocrystal.	Brief article	Feb 16, 2008	285
Chomping on uranium.	Brief article	Feb 9, 2008	270
Scanner darkly: tiny venetian blinds enhance radiography.		Jan 26, 2008	487
Dusty fireball: can lab-made blob explain ball lightning?		Jan 19, 2008	462
Retro RAM.		Jan 19, 2008	260
Bathtub optics: bending light also shifts it sideways.		Jan 12, 2008	522
Energy forest.	Brief article	Jan 12, 2008	225
Tiptoe acrobats get it just right.		Jan 5, 2008	224
Tied up in knots: anything that can tangle up, will, including DNA.		Dec 22, 2007	1891
Einstein unruffled: relativity passes stringent new tests.		Nov 24, 2007	487
Shadow world: how many dimensions space has could all be a matter of perspective.		Nov 17, 2007	2347
Electron superhighway: can graphene overtake silicon as the essential ingredient of computer chips?		Sep 29, 2007	1929
The wealth of nations: a country's competitive edge can spread industry to industry, like a disease.	Cover story	Sep 1, 2007	1477
Alien pizza, anyone? Biochemistry may have taken a different turn on other worlds.		Aug 18, 2007	2194
Slick serpent.		Jul 28, 2007	132
The power of induction: cutting the last cord could resonate with our increasingly gadget-dependent lives.		Jul 21, 2007	1964
Pulling strings: stretching proteins can reveal how they fold.		Jul 14, 2007	468
Beyond ethanol: synthetic fuel offers promising alternative.		Jun 23, 2007	489
Improbability drive: focus on rare actions speeds chemical simulations.		Jun 16, 2007	501
Spinning into control: high-tech reincarnations of an ancient way of storing energy.	Cover story	May 19, 2007	2007
Quantum loophole: some quirks of physics can be good for science.		May 5, 2007	514
Northern exposure: the inhospitable side of the galaxy?		Apr 21, 2007	596