Did Life Evolve in Ice?
Funky properties of frozen water may have made life possible. 02.01.2008
The Developmentally Disabled Galaxy
A strange old galaxy churns out new stars like a young'un. 01.15.2008
60. Diamonds From Outer Space
01.09.2008
Raw Data: Inside The Oldest Known Star
Astronomers find a star almost as old as the big bang. 07.30.2007
Microscopy Approaches Fundamental Limits
If God can’t pin down tiny atoms, what hope do mere mortals have? 06.13.2007
Everything Emits Radiation—Even You
The millirems pour in from bananas, bomb tests, the air, bedmates... 06.04.2007
Whatever Happened To... Cold Fusion?
03.03.2006
The Year in Science: Physics
01.08.2006
End of the Plutonium Age
The American Century was built on a toxic metal, one we still know very little about 11.22.2005
Materials
We may finally be smart enough to build a new world, atom by atom 10.24.2005
X
06.05.2005
Super-atoms
04.28.2005
19: Two New Elements Discovered
01.03.2005
92: Life's Fifth Element Came From Meteors
01.03.2005
63: Chemists Find New Electron Bonds
01.02.2005
Atto Boy!
06.27.2004
A Slippery New State of Matter
04.21.2004
Physicists Extend the Periodic Table
03.12.2004
Where in the H is the H in H2O?
11.10.2003
To Catch a Comet
In January a clever probe will meet up with a flying rock that may hold the secret to life on Earth 10.28.2003
A Strange Brew in Middle Earth
08.01.2003
The Quantum Mirage
05.01.2003
More Magnets, Please
Only metals can become magnetic, right? Introducing buckyballs that may undo our thinking on yet another scientific principle 12.01.2002
Nuclear Planet
Is there a five-mile-wide ball of hellaciously hot uranium seething at the center of the Earth? 08.01.2002
Follow Up:
02.01.2002
Chemistry
Year In Science 01.13.2002
Gold in Them Thar Stars
07.01.2001
Dream Weaver
01.01.2001
Soccer Balls From Space
06.01.2000
The Nuts and Bolts of Qubits, Part 2
The Nuts and Bolts of Qubits, Part 2 01.01.1999
The Nuts and Bolts of Qubits, Part 1
(If You Really Must Know) 01.01.1999
The Great Quantum Number Cruncher
If someone succeeds in building a quantum computer--and the odds of that look better every day--the information age may never be the same. 01.01.1999
Physics Watch: Fusion's Future?
Will tomorrow's power plants run on a few ounces of hydrogen and boron instead of several hundred tons of coal? Physicist Hendrik Monkhorst is betting on it. 05.01.1998
The Year in Science: Physics 1997
Cluster Bombs 01.01.1998
The Year in Science: Chemistry 1997
What's in a Name? 01.01.1998
Beams of Stuff
To get closer to the true, quantum nature of matter, physicist David Pritchard has been splitting atoms down the middle, fiddling with the halves, and then putting them back together. In principle, he says, he could do the same to a bacterium. Or even a baby grand. 12.01.1997
Where's the Bucky Joe?
06.01.1997
Just Gas, Part III (Electric Version)
10.01.1996
The Glory of Francium
08.01.1996
Through the Looking Glass
07.01.1996
Interfering Atoms
01.01.1996
Bose and Einstein in Boulder
01.01.1996
One Molecule at a Time
01.01.1996
Atom Smith
Dick Siegel has invented a forge that manipulates matter a molecule at a time. 12.01.1995
The Philosopher's Atom
Physicists have long struggled to see the quantum mechanical atom in real-world terms. Now one odd atom is giving them a glimpse--not quite of the phantasmal quantum world, perhaps, but at least of the boundary between the world and the one we inhabit. 11.01.1995
A Small Problem of Propulsion
It's a long way to alpha centauri, but some think antimatter could send us there in record time. 10.01.1995
The Sensitive Touch
A microscope that can feel inside a molecule and label each and every atom: researchers are designing one right now. 10.01.1995
An Island of Stability
08.01.1994
Cages of Carbon
09.01.1993
Wet, Wild, and Weird
Computer simulations reveal the molecular choreography behind the often bizarre behavior of H2O--nature's hardest liquid. 10.01.1992