Stories by Graham P. Collins

A Glimpse of Supersolid

Solid helium can behave like a superfluid

Back to the Future

Physicists gaze into the crystal ball

Hawking a Theory

Is the black hole information paradox solved?

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...

Magnetic Soot

Magnetic nanofoam is found to be ferromagnetic

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

Henri Poincar¿, His Conjecture, Copacabana and Higher Dimensions

High-Temp Knockout

Gone: two possible superconducting "glues"

Seeing Single Photons

A superconducting way to spot photons one by one

The Next Big Chill

Physicists close in on a new state of matter

Fatal Attachments

Extremely low energy electrons can wreck DNA

Holographic Control

Liquid-crystal holograms form photonic crystals

Getting Warmer

Magnetic semiconductors reach higher temperatures

Heat and Light

Does negative refraction really exist?

Revising Relativity

Scientists try to outdo Einstein

Selling the Free Lunch

Perpetual motion has changed its name but not its methods

Claude E. Shannon: Founder of Information Theory

With the fundamental new discipline of quantum information science now under construction, it's a good time to look back at an extraordinary scientist who single-handedly launched classical information theory...

There's No Stopping Them

Perpetual motion is alive and well at the U.S. patent office

Superfluid Freeze

Setback for Super-K

Disaster blinds the world's leading neutrino detector