Space
Three-Star Performance
Tomography from the ground could outdo the Hubble and its successor
Stories by Graham P. Collins
The Sciences
Fireballs of Free Quarks
CERN appears to have spotted the long-sought quark-gluon plasma--last seen during the big bang
The Sciences
THE NONNEGLIGIBLE LIGHTNESS OF GRAVITY
Physicists verify that even gravity itself has weight
The Sciences
The Nobel Prizes for 1999
Explanations of the science underlying the world's most prestigious awards for physics, chemistry and physiology plus a look at the prizes for peace, won by a physicians organization, and economics...
The Sciences
QUANTUM CLAUSTROPHOBIA
Physicists create Fermi degenerate matter, the stuff of neutron stars, in an ultracold gas
The Sciences
Quantum Déjà Vu
In an exquisite "quantum nondemolition" experiment, physicists see a single photon and then see it again
The Sciences
QUBIT CHIP
A superconducting chip suggests a practical path to medium-scale quantum computing
The Sciences
QUANTUM SCULPTING
Feedback enables researchers to control an atom's wave function
