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ATLAS detector seeks to illuminate universe’s mysteries

Scientists working with most powerful collider ever built full story»

DARPA awards interdisciplinary research team $1.2 million grant to study surface enhanced Raman scattering

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Pioneer in spintronics celebrates birthday

Physicists gather for talks, party in honor of Emmanuel I. Rashba full story»

‘Hot’ ice could lead to medical device

Theoretical advance shows ice possible at body temperature full story»

Light and matter united

Opens the way to new computers and communication systems full story»

Measuring one of the universe's building blocks

Reducing uncertainty about electrons full story»

Using physics to understand biology

Goel puts DNA to the test full story»

Drops in drops hold practical promise

Advance allows more precision than earlier techniques full story»

Lasers produce slow, cold antiatoms

So where has all the antimatter gone? full story»

Light propagates via wires more slender than its own wavelength

Super-thin nanowires could yield optical chips, sensors for biological and chemical molecules full story»

Scientists look inside antimatter

Going where no one has gone before full story»

Harvard undergraduate discovers novel atomic cluster

Using supercomputer, 18-year-old finds what older scientists missed full story»

Young star may be belching spheres of gas, astronomers say

Behavior not predicted by current models full story»

Harvard researchers stop, restart, light

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Thinnest wires probe superconductivity

Could lead to computers much faster than any available today full story»
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