Stories by John Matson

Peering back to just 500 million years after the big bang, researchers have located what looks to be a galaxy in the infant universe

Setting ensembles of solid-state particles into entangled pairs holds promise for quantum computation

Two groups of physicists have managed to shift the quantum entanglement between two photons onto an entangled state between one photon and a quantum memory

Many have implicated heated political rhetoric in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, but the connection between viewing and acting is complex

An accidental find in a star-forming dwarf galaxy shows that black holes may mature early in galaxy evolution

Short-lived bursts of plasma leaping outward from the sun contribute to the mysteriously well-heated outer solar atmosphere

The moving bits in the proposed data-storage scheme do not stop and start instantaneously, but their motion is easy to quantify

With 86 strings of detectors reaching down 2.5 kilometers into Antarctic ice, the IceCube observatory is now finished

Projecting the spin of an electron onto an atomic nucleus allows for much longer storage and recall of spin-encoded information

A microbe in California's arsenic-rich lake can use the element, usually a poison, as a building block for DNA and other biomolecules

New constraints on a relatively small extrasolar world are beginning to reveal what the planet is made of--and whether it looks anything like our own

Researchers may have re-created an elusive black hole phenomenon in the lab

A Q&A with astronomer Jean Schneider, maintainer of the online The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia

The orientation of hundreds of galactic pairs provides a new test of the standard cosmological view