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• Why More Matter Than Antimatter? (August 2010)
• Diving Into Sand Dunes (August 2010)
• Einstein, Right or Wrong . . . But Forever Relevant (July 2010)
• Duct Tape and the Second Law of Thermodynamics (July 2010)
• A Quantum Drum: Making Visible the Invisible (May 2010)
• Hadron Takes Baby Steps (March 2010)
• Laser Fusion: So Far, So Good (February 2010)
• If You Could See What I Hear: Nanolight and Sound (December 2009)
• At Long Last, Monopoles — In a Sense (November 2009)
• Splitting Up: Spin-Charge Electron Separation (October 2009)
• Mechanical Entanglement: Looking for Quantum Boundaries (June 2009)
• Tough Crust: Cracking the Neutron Star (June 2009)
• Casimir-Lifshitz Repulsion: Found After Forty Years (January 2009)
• Hadron: Holding the Secrets of the Universe (November 2008)
• What Happens When Symmetry Fails? Ask the 2008 Physics Nobel Prize Winners (October 2008)
• Motions and Forces: The Physics of Tennis (October 2008)
• Privacy the Quantum Way (July 2008)
• A Breakthrough in Superconductivity (May 2008)
• Whirligig Beetles Master Physics (March 2008)
• Electron Makes Film Debut (March 2008)
• Cooper Pairs Where You'd Least Expect Them (January 2008)
• Sand Grains and Primordial Plasma: Playing by the Same Rules? (November 2007)
• Good Vibrations Drive Water up the Wall (November 2007)
• The Mystery of the Booming Sand Dunes (September 2007)
• What Makes the Sun Shine (September 2007)
• Time Before Time: Was There a "Before the Big Bang?" (August 2007)
• High-Temperature Superconductivity Heats Up (July 2007)
• Nutty Physics: The Brazil Nut Effect (July 2007)
• Temperature Redefined: A Better Boltzmann Constant (July 2007)
• Something from Nothing: Physicist Harnesses Ever-Present Energy (June 2007)
• A Blueprint for Boron Buckyballs (June 2007)
• Newton's Law Passes the Test (May 2007)
• Neutrino Mystery Solved . . . Kinda . . . (May 2007)
• Electrons That Get Around: Plutonium's Valence, Unveiled (May 2007)
• A Buckycatcher for a Buckyball (April 2007)
• Ripped Molecules: Brute Force Comes to Chemistry (April 2007)
• Mind-Blowing Physics: A Strange Experiment Finally Performed (March 2007)
• Why Does Rubber Stretch? (March 2007)
• Physics to Shock Your Friends (March 2007)
• Quantum Magic: A New Light Trick (February 2007)
• In Mecca, Physics Saves Lives (February 2007)
• Einstein's "Tea Leaf Paradox" Gives Blood a New Spin (February 2007)
• Yep, Gravity Still Works (January 2007)
• See-Through Science: Researchers Tailor First Invisibility Cloak (November 2006)
• Asymmetry in the Cosmos (August 2006)
• Maxwell's Demon in the Fridge (June 2006)
• Honey, I Shrunk the Fridge! A Brownian Refrigerator (June 2006)
• Constant or Not? (June 2006)
• Equilibrium? Forget About It . . . (May 2006)
• Very Fast Sound (December 2005)
• Raising the Barilla: A New Strand in Food Physics (November 2005)
• Fusion—Is the Future Any Closer? (September 2005)
• Floating on the Waves (August 2005)
• What Time Is It? Exactly? (August 2005)
• Tabletop Fusion, Take Three (June 2005)
• Early Universe Was a "Perfect" Liquid (May 2005)
• Star in a Jar: Plasma Found in Collapsing Bubbles (March 2005)
• Why Are Wet Roads Slippery? (January 2005)
• Quantum Computing, Qubit by Qubit (December 2004)
• Physics of Fluffier Popcorn (November 2004)
• Teleportation, Atom by Atom (July 2004)
• New Light on Dark Energy (June 2004)
• Tabletop Fusion: Chapter Two (June 2004)
• Cool Condensate Is New Form of Matter (June 2004)
• Gravity Probe B Blasts Off--At Last (May 2004)
• To Be Quantum or Not To Be Quantum (May 2004)
• How to Get Something from Nothing (April 2004)
• Einstein Wrong? Not So Fast (January 2004)
• Dark Energy Found (December 2003)
• Nobel Awarded to Physics "Super" Scientists (November 2003)
• Scientists Create Densest Matter Ever Observed (September 2003)
• High-Fives for Particle Physicists (September 2003)
• Gravity Moves at Speed of Light (Maybe) (March 2003)
• Pulsar Video Reveals Secrets (November 2002)
• CERN Creates Antihydrogen Atoms and Looks Inside to Investigate Nature of Matter (November 2002)
• Smaller Chips More Prone to Error (November 2002)
• Standard Model Teeters on Muon Melee (September 2002)
• Teleportation Advances Down Under (June 2002)
• The Space Between: The Ether Makes a Comeback (November 2001)
• New Form of Matter Wins 2001 Physics Nobel (October 2001)
• Higgs Boson Traces Probably Never Really There (August 2001)
• Neutrino Neapolitan: Three Flavors in One? (July 2001)
• Standard Model Not Done Yet, Say Many Theorists (July 2001)
• Fuzzier Divide: Quantum vs. Classical Physics (June 2001)
• Freezing Light In Its Tracks (March 2001)
• A Force to Reckon With: Casimir's Effect on Micromachines (March 2001)
• The Wily World of Virtual Particles (March 2001)
• Muon Measurement Violates Standard Model (March 2001)
• Burdened by the Mass of the Universe: The Higgs Boson at CERN's Fingertips (November 2000)
• Theory Predicts Reality: Tau Neutrino Exists (September 2000)
• Flighty Neutrinos Caught in Transformation (September 2000)
• Big Doings at the Quantum Corral (May 2000)
• Particle Prophets Walk Off With Physics Nobel (November 1999)
• Surfing a Fermion Sea (November 1999)
• Faster Than a Speeding Slug (May 1999)
• Scientists Teleport Light Beams (January 1999)
• Time Travels in Only One Direction (January 1999)
• Atoms With Deformed Nuclei May Shed Light On Tunneling (August 1998)
• Researchers Create Matter From Light (August 1998)
• Spooky Particles Defy Einstein's Prediction (October 1997)
• Atom Caught in Superposition (October 1996)