Path Dependence and the Stupidity of LED Light Bulbs

• By Christopher Mims
• 5/10/12
• 128 Comments

Why are we cramming 21st century technology into a socket designed by Edison?

Silicon Nanospheres Could Be Building Blocks of Optical Invisibility Cloaks

• By kfc
• 5/10/12
• 2 Comments

Invisibility cloaks that work for microwaves are easy to make using simple building blocks. Now engineers have created the equivalent building blocks for visible light.

Physicists Store Short Movie In A Cloud of Gas

• By kfc
• 5/9/12
• 3 Comments

Researchers have been able to store single images in a cloud of rubidium atoms for several years. Now they've gone a step further

The Quantum Biology Conundrum

• By kfc
• 5/8/12
• 10 Comments

If quantum mechanics plays an important role is biology, we'll want to copy it. If it doesn't, we'll want to know why not

Molecular "Wankel Engine" Driven By Photons

• By kfc
• 4/13/12
• 1 Comment

Chemists say exotic clusters of boron atoms should behave like rotary Wankel engines when bathed in circularly polarised light

Path Dependence and the Stupidity of LED Light Bulbs

• By Christopher Mims
• 5/10/12
• 128 Comments

Why are we cramming 21st century technology into a socket designed by Edison?

Physicists Store Short Movie In A Cloud of Gas

• By kfc
• 5/9/12
• 3 Comments

Researchers have been able to store single images in a cloud of rubidium atoms for several years. Now they've gone a step further

Silicon Nanospheres Could Be Building Blocks of Optical Invisibility Cloaks

• By kfc
• 5/10/12
• 2 Comments

Invisibility cloaks that work for microwaves are easy to make using simple building blocks. Now engineers have created the equivalent building blocks for visible light.

The Quantum Biology Conundrum

• By kfc
• 5/8/12
• 10 Comments

If quantum mechanics plays an important role is biology, we'll want to copy it. If it doesn't, we'll want to know why not

The Amazing Trajectories of Life-Bearing Meteorites from Earth

• By kfc
• 4/11/12
• 19 Comments

The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs must have ejected billions of tons of life-bearing rock into space. Now physicists have calculated what must have happened to it.

Path Dependence and the Stupidity of LED Light Bulbs

• By Christopher Mims
• 5/10/12
• 128 Comments

Why are we cramming 21st century technology into a socket designed by Edison?

The Quantum Biology Conundrum

• By kfc
• 5/8/12
• 10 Comments

If quantum mechanics plays an important role is biology, we'll want to copy it. If it doesn't, we'll want to know why not

Physicists Store Short Movie In A Cloud of Gas

• By kfc
• 5/9/12
• 3 Comments

Researchers have been able to store single images in a cloud of rubidium atoms for several years. Now they've gone a step further

Silicon Nanospheres Could Be Building Blocks of Optical Invisibility Cloaks

• By kfc
• 5/10/12
• 2 Comments

Invisibility cloaks that work for microwaves are easy to make using simple building blocks. Now engineers have created the equivalent building blocks for visible light.