The Amazing Trajectories of Life-Bearing Meteorites from Earth
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs must have ejected billions of tons of life-bearing rock into space. Now physicists have calculated what must have happened to it.
Materials
In a 3-D Printed Future, Do Toymakers Have a Business Model?
What's to stop kids from pirating LEGO sets as readily as they pirate music?
Rubidium Detector Converts Infrared Images Directly to Visible Light
Chinese physicists demonstrate a practical system for converting infrared images directly into visible ones.
Physicists Propose Yet Another Form of Superhard Carbon
The battle amongst theorists to predict the structure of a new form of carbon is hotting up
Red Wine, Tartaric Acid, and the Secret of Superconductivity
Last year, physicists discovered that red wine can turn certain materials into superconductors. Now they've found that Beaujolais works best and think they know why.
Discovering the End of the World
The recent death of Sherwood Rowland, whose work helped us avoid one of the world's great environmental disasters, should be a reminder that we can't afford to ignore the lessons of chemistry.
You've Never Seen a Bed Like This Before
The Murphy bed gets a new twist.
When a Jet Hits a Soap Film
A soap film can bend a jet of fluid, just like a lens. That opens up an entirely new way to control microjets, say physicists.
Computer Simulation Predicts New Allotrope Of Carbon
The new material matches the properties of a puzzling new form of carbon found in high pressure experiments
Seismic Metamaterials Could Cloak Dams and Power Stations
Metamaterials that absorb seismic waves rather than steer them, might be a better way to protect some buildings, say engineers
