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April 2006: Computing with Quantum Knots. A machine based on bizarre particles called anyons that represents a calculation as a set of braids in spacetime might be a shortcut to practical quantum computation.
June 2005: Making Cold Antimatter. Low-energy atoms of antihydrogen
will enable researchers to test
a fundamental property of the universe.
[Two short sidebars to this article are online: What Is Antimatter? and Past and Future Tests of CPT. ]
August 2004: Next Stretch for Plastic Electronics. Organic semiconductor devices can make more than just bendable displays. They will find use in wearable electronics, chemical sensors, skin for robots and innumerable other applications.
July 2004: The Shapes of Space. A Russian mathematician has proved the century-old Poincaré conjecture and completed the catalogue of three-dimensional spaces. He might earn a $1-million prize.
September 2001: Nanofiction: Shamans of Small. Like interstellar travel, time machines and cyberspace, nanotechnology has become one of the core plot devices on which science-fiction writers draw.
December 2000: The Coolest Gas in the Universe. Bose-Einstein condensates are one of the hottest areas in experimental physics.
November 2002: Selling
the Free Lunch. Perpetual
motion has changed its name but not its methods. [Staking Claims]
October 2002: There's No Stopping Them. Perpetual motion is alive and well at the U.S. patent office. [Staking Claims]
January 2000: The Nobel Prizes for 1999. Physics: Doing the Math. Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus J. G. Veltman. [Special Briefing]
March 2006: Ion Power.
Atomic ions prove their quantum versatility. [physics]
December 2005: Cheaper Dots.
New process slashes the cost of quantum dots. [nanotech]
October 2005: Quantum
Bug.
Qubits might spontaneously decay in seconds. [physics]
April 2005: CT
Scan for Molecules.
Producing 3-d images of electron orbitals. [imaging]
January 2005: A Glimpse of Supersolid.
Solid helium can behave like a superfluid. [physics]
December 2004: Back to the Future. Physicists gaze into the crystal
ball. [physics]
October 2004: Hawking a Theory. Is the black hole information paradox solved? [physics]
July 2004: Magnetic Soot. Carbon nanofoam is found to be ferromagnetic. [materials science]
May 2004: High-Temp Knockout. Gone: two possible superconducting "glues." [physics]
January 2004: Seeing Single Photons. A superconducting way to spot photons one by one. [physics]
October 2003: The
Next Big Chill. Physicists
close in on a new state of matter. [physics]
September 2003: Fatal Attachments. Extremely low energy electrons can wreck DNA. [biophysics]
July 2003: Holographic Control. Liquid-crystal holograms form photonic crystals. [physics]
March 2003: Getting Warmer. Magnetic semiconductors reach higher temperatures. [spintronics]
January 2003: Heat and Light. Does negative refraction really exist? [physics]
November 2002: Revising Relativity. Scientists try to outdo Einstein. [physics]
February 2002: Setback for Super-K. Disaster blinds the world's leading neutrino detector. [physics]
January 2002: Fractional Success. A new theory of everything? Probably not. [physics]
December 2001: Trillions Entwined. Clouds of atoms are linked by a weird quantum yoke. [physics]
November 2001: Plus Ça Change. Has a fundamental constant varied over the aeons? [physics]
October 2001: Magnetic Revelations. Functional MRI highlights neurons receiving signals. [neuroscience]
September 2001: SNO Nus Is Good News. The latest on mutating neutrinos solves the solar neutrino problem. [physics]
August 2001: Computing with Light. Classical waves for pseudo quantum computing. [physics]
June 2001: New Trick from Old Dog. A magnesium compound is a startling superconductor. [physics]
April 2001: Ultimate Stop Motion. An experimental tour de force puts pulses of light on ice. [physics]
March 2001: Trapped over a Chip. Microchips that control hovering atoms may lead to new quantum computers. [physics – atom optics]
February 2001: Higgs Won't Fly. CERN declines a massive opportunity to find the Higgs particle. [physics – elementary particles]
January 2001: A Gas of Steel Balls. Marbles are more difficult to understand than atoms or molecules. [physics – granular materials]
December 2000: The Amazing Acenes. Organic crystals show siliconlike abilities and may elucidate fundamental physics. [materials – plastic electronics]
October 2000: Schrödinger's SQUID. In superconducting loops, electric current flows both ways at once. [physics – quantum mechanics]
August 2000: Different Stripes. Physicists still struggle to explain high-temperature superconductivity. [engineering – superconductivity]
May 2000: Three-Star Performance. Tomography from the ground could outdo the Hubble and its successors. [astronomy – adaptive optics]
April 2000: Fireballs of Free Quarks. CERN appears to have spotted the long-sought quark-gluon plasma—last seen during the big bang. [physics – elementary particles]
February 2000: The Nonnegligible Lightness of Gravity. Physicists verify that even gravity itself has weight. [physics]
January 2000: Schrödinger's Games. For quantum prisoners there may be no dilemma. [quantum game theory]
November 1999: Quantum Claustrophobia. Physicists create Fermi degenerate matter, the stuff of neutron stars, in an ultracold gas. [physics]
October 1999: Quantum Déjà Vu. In an exquisite "quantum nondemolition" experiment,physicists see a single photon and then see it again. [physics]
August 1999: Qubit Chip. A superconducting chip suggests a practical path to medium-scale quantum computing. [physics]
May 1999: Quantum Sculpting. Feedback enables researchers to control an atom's wave function. [physics]
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