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UN body rejects bluefin tuna ban
'Hobbit' island's deeper history
Planck spies massive dust clouds
New exoplanet like 'one of ours'
Limits of quantum world stretched
Monkeys learn more from females
'Arrogance' undid climate talks
Ads 'exaggerated climate change'
Guess who's a sucker for high-definition television? The octopus
Why the world's fastest car will no longer take off
Richard Black on what's happening to our shared environment
Earth Watch
Subconscious sell
In pictures
Springing late
Don't give up
Beauty and power
Hailing the arrival of alien predators
Aboriginal whaling rights slipping
In pictures: Arctic peril
Bee swarms follow 'pied pipers'
Crimean ship found off Balaclava
Mars moon Phobos seen in detail
Blind soldier 'sees' with tongue
Apollo men on Obama Moon plans
Scan 'can distinguish memories'
Africans 'take blame for climate'
'Milestone' for wave energy plans
Toxic troubles for climate 'fix'
Home improvement 'hitting swifts'
Tiger decline 'sign of failure'
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Looming unemployment harms older workers' health
Multifunctional polymer neutralizes both biological and chemical weapons
Power Walk This Way: Scientists Develop Device That Harnesses Energy from Everyday Movements
Stem cells used to model infant birth defect
Cultural divide in ability to recognize sensual sounds
Nano-based RFID tags could replace bar codes
Homework copying can turn As into Cs, Bs into Ds
Cat-calls are detrimental to everyone
Breakthrough for babies born with severe cleft palates after experiments at ISIS
China Mobile hopes to agree iPhone deal
Polar bear ban defeated at UN conservation meeting
Long neglected nutritional training for doctors at all levels needed now
Astronauts return to Earth on Russian spacecraft
WHO: Not sure if drug-resistant TB is worsening
'Seeing' through paint
New statistical method for genetic studies could cut computation time from years to hours
France's national program to reduce HAIs reports important successes; uses mandatory reporting
Scanner scans a 200 page book in one minute (w/ Video)
Hypnotherapy eases irritable bowel syndrome symptoms
New technique reduces tobacco smoke damage to lungs in mice
Deep brain stimulation reduces epileptic seizures in patients with refractory partial and secondarily generalized seizur
Stress during pregnancy may increase offspring's risk of asthma
Siemens to revamp IT unit, cut 4,200 jobs
Nissan to make electric cars in Britain from 2013
Google denied Nexus phone trademark: report
Email scam targets Facebook users: Web security firm
Calif. considers smoking ban at all state parks
Wingless ants glide to safety steering with their hind legs (w/ Video)
Safety board to weigh requiring condoms in porn
Health Care Delivery Fixes Somewhat Helpful in Heart Disease
Physics Today magazine
Physics in China
Universal Insights from Few-Body Land
Ultracold neutral plasmas
A complex symmetry emerges at the quantum critical point of an Ising-spin chain
Diffraction around the head makes hearers mislocate sound sources
Holograms tie optical vortices in knots
Model sheds light on the language of color
Physics update
New neutron source aims to be top in energy and environmental stewardship
A voice for Africa's physicists
Roundtable participants find near-consensus on free access to results of publicly funded research
ArXiv survival tied to new funding model
Government handling of helium gets report card: Think again
Science Board details China?s leap in science and technology
News notes
Web watch
London bridge?s wobble and sway
Frame dragging on flybys
Carbon from coal plants
Electrostatic trick might affect human body
Inspired by a century of physics
Human discoveries predated by nature
Costs of raising the bar for medical physicists
Spatial coherence from ducks
Correction
Introduction to Modern Traffic Flow Theory and Control: The Long Road to Three-Phase Traffic Theory
Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science, Mind and Nature: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics
Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics: Basic Theory and Advanced Methods
Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Brightest Explosions in the Universe
New books
Focus on test and measurements
Frank James Low
Slow Antihydrogen
A new VISTA on the southern sky
physicsworld.com: news
Top South African astronomer reinstated
Trapped ions go for a quantum walk
Mysterious 'dark flow' at the edge of the universe
Enter the 'thermopower wave'
Borexino bags geoneutrinos
Electrical signals transmitted via spin waves
Concerns raised over Institute of Physics climate submission
Galaxy study backs general relativity
UK science risks relegation, warns Royal Society
Earth's magnetic field older than we thought
physicsworld.com: print edition
The eerie silence
Talking physics in the Twittersphere
The Majorana mystery
Communicating science
The value of simulation
Web life: Trailblazing
Between the lines: CERN special
The flu fighters
Your favourite units
Law and the end of the world
Scientific American - Physics
Where's My Fusion Reactor?
A look inside RHIC, Brookhaven's little big bang machine
A Warm Jupiter: A Newfound Exoplanet Bears a Resemblance to the Solar System's Own Worlds
Finding the Top Bot: High School Students (and Their Robots) Take the Prize at Tech Challenge [Slide Show]
Going with the Flow: Hydrokinetic Power Developers Face Technical and Regulatory Hurtles in Bid to Tap Tides
Aristotle's Error
6 Fun Facts about the James Webb Space Telescope [Slide Show]
A New Spin on Conductivity: Electric Signals Can Propagate through an Insulator
Floor Plan: Linoleum May Be Green, but Is There an Ecofriendly Way to Keep It Clean?
Invasion of the Drones: Unmanned Aircraft Take Off in Polar Exploration
A need for new nukes? "Modular reactors" for energy attract interest
Playing the Body Electric
Shields Up: Magnetized Rocks Push Back Origin of Earth's Magnetic Field
A Theory Set in Stone: An Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs, After All
Sound Idea: Acoustic Technology Lets Small Planes "Listen" for Nearby Aircraft
Impact Factor: Can a Scientific Retraction Change Public Opinion?
Not Just for Fuel Anymore: Hydrocarbons Can Superconduct, Too
Next-Gen Scientists Honored for Evolving Medicine and Renewables [Slide Show]
How the earthquake in Chile could change Earth's axis
World's Mightiest Solar Boat Unveiled
Nature Physics - Issue - nature.com science feeds
Things of beauty
Treasured archive
Geometric phase memories
Dynamical quantum non-locality
How do you solve a problem like friction?
Herd on the street
Our choice from the recent literature
Ultrafast science: Towards a one-femtosecond film
Quantum mechanics: Intellectually delicious
Neural control: Chaos control sets the pace
X-ray optics: Diamond brilliance
Nonlinear dynamics: Spontaneous synchrony breaking
Graphene: Switched on
Optical physics: Broken symmetry makes light work
Plasma physics: Turbulence at a pinch
Ferroelectricity in a one-dimensional organic quantum magnet
Correlation-induced single-flux-quantum penetration in quantum rings
Normal-state spin dynamics and temperature-dependent spin-resonance energy in optimally doped BaFe1.85Co0.15As2
Evolution of spin excitations into the superconducting state in FeTe1?xSex
Strength and directionality of surface Ruderman?Kittel?Kasuya?Yosida interaction mapped on the atomic scale
Observation of parity?time symmetry in optics
High-reflectivity high-resolution X-ray crystal optics with diamonds
Attosecond imaging of molecular electronic wavepackets
Turbulent inward pinch of plasma confined by a levitated dipole magnet
Back-action-evading measurements of nanomechanical motion
Static control logic for microfluidic devices using pressure-gain valves
Self-organized adaptation of a simple neural circuit enables complex robot behaviour
Nature Physics - AOP - nature.com science feeds
Experimental demonstration of a hyper-entangled ten-qubit Schrödinger cat state
Band dispersion in the deep 1s core level of graphene
Controlling the state of quantum spins with electric currents
A Rydberg quantum simulator
All-optical preparation of molecular ions in the rovibrational ground state
Rotational laser cooling of vibrationally and translationally cold molecular ions
Dynamical axion field in topological magnetic insulators
Exploring laser-wakefield-accelerator regimes for near-term lasers using particle-in-cell simulation in Lorentz-boosted frames
Superconducting quantum interference proximity transistor
Quantum register based on coupled electron spins in a room-temperature solid
Two-orbital SU(N) magnetism with ultracold alkaline-earth atoms
Integer and half-integer flux-quantum transitions in a niobium?iron pnictide loop
An ultracold high-density sample of rovibronic ground-state molecules in an optical lattice
Correction
Analog information processing at the quantum limit with a Josephson ring modulator
Cavity QED: Lasing under strong coupling
Laser oscillation in a strongly coupled single-quantum-dot?nanocavity system
Naturally occurring resonators in random lasing of ?-conjugated polymer films
Probing superfluids in optical lattices by momentum-resolved Bragg spectroscopy
Breaking the 10 nm barrier in hard-X-ray focusing

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