Physics
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Tech
Nanotubes coming to a screen near you
New technology promises brighter, bigger display screens that use less energy.
- Chemistry
Molecules/Matter & Energy
Marijuana loses its high, plus soy tape, gritty bubbles and more in this week’s news.
- Physics
Salt clouds relieve some Arctic warming
Sea sprays from increasingly open waters exert a cooling effect in the region.
- Physics
Scientists see the one-way light
Nonlinear materials that allow directional discrimination of waves could be used to make components for light-based computers.
- Chemistry
Molecules/Matter & Energy
A quantum state is teleported, plus twisty light and foamy graphene in this week's news.
- Physics
Time travel nixed in metamaterial world
A desktop universe captures essential properties of the real thing.
- Physics
How bicycles keep the rubber on the road
An international collaboration tries to explain the surprising stability of two-wheeled travel.
- Chemistry
Molecules/Matter & Energy
3-D effects without the glasses, plus portable X-rays and linking qubits in this week’s news.
- Physics
Screwy symmetry revealed
Math trick that reverses spirals and other shapes that twist and turn should provide new ways to understand and design materials.
- Chemistry
Molecules/Matter & Energy
A new way to fold a paper bag, plus good apples and designer silk in this week’s news.
- Physics
Remodeling the standard model
Physicists could be on the verge of discovering a new elementary particle, studies at a U.S. accelerator suggest.
- Humans
Hidden dalliance revealed by X-rays
A high-tech analysis uncovers a 19th century painter’s do-over.
