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Technique to trace persistent CFCs
Openness urged on UK's emissions
'Lights out' help migratory birds
Greatest free-kick 'was no fluke'
Ants protect trees from elephants
Worm brain clue to evolution
Creation was Godless says Hawking
Ancient reef uncovered in Pacific
Floods swamp south Sudan region
Rare Roman lantern found in field
Clue to ancient Antarctic seaway
Earl weakens as it nears US coast
Old star wallows in 'steam bath'
Memristor revolution backed by HP
Big rocket booster in second test
Stone Age funeral feast unearthed
Killer space blast 'off the hook'
Beefy dino sported fearsome claws
Facial cancer hits Tasmanian devil Cedric
Double space impact 'killed dinosaurs'
Earthquake recorded in North Sea
Stricter checks for climate body
UK biofuels 'fail on green goals'
Wheat genome boost to food supply
Plants send SOS signal to insects
Brazil green light for Amazon dam
Gorillas 'play tag like humans'
Did the Universe need a creator?
Rare tree flowers after 23 years
Nasa booster rocket passes test
GM potatoes beating killer blight
Free kick study boost for footballers
Making money from Peruvian bird poo
Video reveals Titanic's condition
Fishermen welcome new sole quota
Let it snow
Once bitten
Darwin's secret
How flat is flat?
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Dell's enterprise challenge remains after 3Par
Study challenges value of oxygen therapy in end-of-life care
Science's policy clout diminished, but oil risk looms large
Long term use of oral bisphosphonates may double risk of esophageal cancer
Roll-out of electronic patient records likely to be a long and complex process
BP removes cap from plugged well in Gulf of Mexico
Occurrence of increased kidney transplant listings in patients with prior non-kidney transplants
NASA sees Depression Nine become Gaston then back to a depression
Double hand transplant patient shows new hands
Earl's path along northeast is not well-worn
Facebook's new security feature: remote logouts
NASA satellite sees Tropical Storm Kompasu transitioning over Korea and China
New warning signs may predict kidney transplant failure
Children who eat vended snack foods face chronic health problems, poor diet
Researchers pave the way for a better understanding of HIV infection and AIDS
Serendipity contributes to MRSA susceptibility findings
Chemists discover method to create high-value chemicals from biomass
Models suggest treatments for fractures that won't heal
NASA catches heavy rainfall happening in Category 4 Earl as it approaches the US
Tire-pressure monitors vulnerable, researchers say
Bermuda in warnings as the GOES-13 Satellite catches Fiona approaching
New model may simplify high-dose radiosurgery planning
Report: Discovery networks hostage-taking a rare terror event
Research: Climate change affecting mussel survival
Toshiba to Launch the World`s Fastest SDHC Memory Card
Solar Probe Plus mission to plunge directly into Sun's atmosphere
Spitzer Finds a Flavorful Mix of Asteroids
Researchers map spread of invasive reed in Great Lakes basin
God did not create Universe: Hawking
Cisco buying smart grid specialty firm Arch Rock
Physics Today magazine
The freedom of confinement in complex fluids
The discovery of superconductivity
Imaging with ambient noise
Femtosecond snapshots capture atomic motion in a powdered solid
Radio waves map matter without counting galaxies
Laser-generated bubbles take aim at a cell membrane
Physics update
'Copilot in chief' Augustine takes on space, energy, and education
NSF speeds funding for research on BP oil spill
Global R&D spending up, US industry spending down
China, others dig more and deeper underground labs
Physics olympiad meets in Croatia
Physics bachelors at work
News notes
Web watch
Empirical incompleteness and the search for a theory of everything
HBCUs need better marketing
Scientific societies should speak out
Forging more effective conferences
Bologna reforms in Germany
Historical perspective on spin-polarized tunneling
When Holmdel lab opened for business
Inequity certain, cause disputed
The Stability of Matter in Quantum Mechanics
Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890-1926
Optical Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications
The Hancocks of Marlborough: Rubber, Art, and the Industrial Revolution: A Family of Inventive Genius
New books
Focus on spectroscopy
Indrek Martinson
Robert Vivian Pound
Vortices and tall buildings: A recipe for resonance
NanoFET bioprobe
physicsworld.com: news
Changes spotted in fundamental constant
The Sun's magnetic field warps its environment
Three-year extension recommended for Tevatron
DNA helps turn graphene into a chemical sensor
Pushy hydrogen boosts molecular microscopy
CERN faces ?250m budget cuts
Supermassive black holes spawned by galactic merger
Solar system older than we thought
Antenna directs light at the nanoscale
Astronomers discover the Moon is shrinking
physicsworld.com: print edition
Hubble's greatest hits
Body talk
Confronting fraud in science
Knowledge from a vast effort
Web life
Between the lines
Urban cool
Damage limitation
Discovery with statistics
Swimming against the unseen tide
Scientific American - Physics
Physics of free kicks: The hidden advantage of long-distance soccer shots
Shaky Ground: Can Seismologists Be Charged with a Crime for Not Predicting Deadly Quakes?
Engineering students happily deafened by Mwanga metalworkers
Shades of "Gray Literature": How Much IPCC Reform Is Needed?
Which Ray?: Conflicting Data on High-Energy Cosmic Rays Leave Their Source--or Sources--Unresolved
Lower Cost Lighting May Not Lower Cost
Reading between the Lines: How We See Hidden Objects
Harness lightning for energy, thanks to high humidity?
Cubicle, Sweet Cubicle: The Best Ways to Make Office Spaces Not So Bad (preview)
Distant astrophysical beacons reveal masses of the solar system's planets
Death to Humans! Visions of the Apocalypse in Movies and Literature
The Paradox of Time: Why It Can't Stop, But Must (preview)
One Big Family: Exoplanet System Hosts at Least 5, and Possibly 7, New Worlds
Laying Odds on the Apocalypse: Experts Assess Doomsday (preview)
Meteorite nugget pushes back age of the solar system by nearly 2 million years
All-out geoengineering still would not stop sea level rise
Self-cleaning solar panels could find use in the dusty environs of Arizona, the Middle East or Mars
Slow and Steady: Astronomy Advisory Report Charts a Long Road for Exoplanet Science
No Easy Pieces: Sloan Telescope Builders Battled Moths, Balky Software and Broken Mirrors
Ocean garbage patches are not growing, so where is all that plastic going?
Nature Physics - Issue - nature.com science feeds
Light on dark
Nicola Cabibbo 1935?2010
The benefit of being good
Research highlights
Solar physics: Solar flares add up
Laser physics: Lasing at the limit
Symmetry breaking transitions: Dynamics of broken symmetry
Quantum information: Coping with uncertainty
Statistical physics: Physicists get social
Quantum gases: The cold reality of exclusion
High-energy physics: Top of the class
High-temperature superconductivity in iron-based materials
The uncertainty principle in the presence of quantum memory
Quantum non-demolition detection of single microwave photons in a circuit
Excited-state spin coherence of a single nitrogen?vacancy centre in diamond
Instability of a quantum spin liquid in an organic triangular-lattice antiferromagnet
A disordered insulator in an optical lattice
Coherent dynamics of macroscopic electronic order through a symmetry breaking transition
Phase transitions in confined water nanofilms
The effect of flares on total solar irradiance
Scaling of tropical-cyclone dissipation
Universal resistances of the quantum resistance?capacitance circuit
Interplay of quantum criticality and geometric frustration in columbite
Strong and tunable nonlinear optomechanical coupling in a low-loss system
Crossover of the three-dimensional topological insulator Bi2Se3 to the two-dimensional limit
Nature Physics - AOP - nature.com science feeds
Quantum criticality: Noise gets marginal
High-temperature superconductivity in iron-based materials
Identification of influential spreaders in complex networks
Spontaneous formation and optical manipulation of extended polariton condensates
Quantum critical states and phase transitions in the presence of non-equilibrium noise
Symmetry breaking transitions: Dynamics of broken symmetry
The Peregrine soliton in nonlinear fibre optics
Visualization of charge transport through Landau levels in graphene
Coherent dynamics of macroscopic electronic order through a symmetry breaking transition
Solar physics: Solar flares add up
The effect of flares on total solar irradiance
Noise-powered probabilistic concentration of phase information
Observation of second-harmonic generation induced by pure spin currents
Real-space mapping of magnetically quantized graphene states
Universality and self-similarity in pinch-off of rods by bulk diffusion
Tripartite interactions between two phase qubits and a resonant cavity
Quasiparticle lifetimes in metallic quantum-well nanostructures
Selective darkening of degenerate transitions demonstrated with two superconducting quantum bits
The uncertainty principle in the presence of quantum memory
Direct entropy determination and application to artificial spin ice
Circuit quantum electrodynamics in the ultrastrong-coupling regime
A disordered insulator in an optical lattice
Scaling of tropical-cyclone dissipation
Excited-state spin coherence of a single nitrogen?vacancy centre in diamond
Instability of a quantum spin liquid in an organic triangular-lattice antiferromagnet
Phase transitions in confined water nanofilms
Strong and tunable nonlinear optomechanical coupling in a low-loss system
Quantum non-demolition detection of single microwave photons in a circuit
Universal resistances of the quantum resistance?capacitance circuit
Interplay of quantum criticality and geometric frustration in columbite

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