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11 August 2011 | ScienceNOW

Pushing Light Beyond Light Speed

by Kate McAlpine
Two teams figure out how to make more light than usual to break the universal speed limit
27 July 2011 | ScienceNOW

Black Hole Collision May Have Set Off Fireworks in the Milky Way

by Ron Cowen
Smashup may have produced some of the highest energy radiation in the universe
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22 July 2011 | ScienceNOW

Podcast: Cheating Seals, Cloaking the Past, and More

by David Grimm and Stewart Wills
Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from the week
22 July 2011 | ScienceNOW

Particle Physicists Report Possible Hints of Long-Sought Higgs Boson

by Adrian Cho
Experimenters with the Large Hadron Collider report curious excess of particles but claim no discovery
18 July 2011 | ScienceNOW

Punching a Hole in Time

by Ron Cowen
New "time cloak" hides events that occur at a specific moment
6 July 2011 | ScienceNOW

Jackson Pollock, Physicist?

by Natalie Villacorta
Analysis shows that 20th Century abstract expressionist fiddled with fluid dynamics for effect
30 June 2011 | ScienceNOW

Is There a Way to Predict 'Random Violence' in War?

by Elizabeth Norton
Follow-up attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan fit a mathematical pattern
15 June 2011 | ScienceNOW

First Results From Japanese Neutrino Experiment Hint at Big Things to Come

by Adrian Cho
But much ballyhooed comparison of matter and antimatter is still a decade off
14 June 2011 | ScienceNOW

End of the Sunspot Cycle?

by Richard A. Kerr
Researchers see signs that the solar cycle may be winding down to a lull
10 June 2011 | ScienceNOW

Hopes Fade for Monumental Last-Minute Discovery at U.S. Atom Smasher

by Adrian Cho
Potential new particle glimpsed during one experiment at Fermilab not seen by competitor
9 June 2011 | ScienceNOW

Magnets Keep Blood Flowing

by Jon Cartwright
Researchers show that magnetic fields can reduce blood viscosity, a leading cause of heart attack and strokes
6 June 2011 | ScienceNOW

Nobelist Steven Weinberg Calls for Bigger Science, More Taxes

by Karen A. Frenkel
Physicist wants a new linear accelerator, fewer gadgets
5 June 2011 | ScienceNOW

Antiatoms, All Out of Energy and Ready for Work

by Adrian Cho
Reaching least-energetic state is a milestone in efforts to compare antimatter and matter
2 June 2011 | ScienceNOW

Quantum Mechanics Gets Weirdly Less Weird

by Adrian Cho
New take on old experiment sidesteps limit on quantum uncertainty
26 May 2011 | ScienceNOW

Did Quiet Sun Cause Little Ice Age After All?

by Govert Schilling
New evidence suggest the sun really did dim during the 17th century
13 May 2011 | ScienceNOW

Controversial Computer Is at Least a Little Quantum Mechanical

by Adrian Cho
But skepticism of system remains
4 May 2011 | ScienceNOW

At Long Last, Gravity Probe B Satellite Proves Einstein Right

by Adrian Cho
Test not as rigorous as hoped, however
4 May 2011 | ScienceNOW

Turning Waste Heat Into Electricity

by Robert F. Service
Novel approach could make "thermoelectric" devices more practical
3 May 2011 | ScienceNOW

Ship in Bottle, Meet Rogue Wave in Tub

by Adrian Cho
Scientists produce tiny version of killer waves in the lab
29 April 2011 | ScienceNOW

Scattering Microscope Peers Into the Nanoscale

by Tim Wogan
New frosted lens sees finer details than ever before
26 April 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Laser-Enabled CSI

by Sid Perkins
Zapped hair can reveal the diet and whereabouts of a victim or suspect
22 April 2011 | ScienceNOW

What Causes Deadly 'Crowd-Quakes'?

by Dave Mosher
New model helps explain the complexity of group movement
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14 April 2011 | ScienceNOW

How to Keep a Riderless Bike From Crashing

by Jon Cartwright
Two processes thought to balance bikes aren't necessary at all
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14 April 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: A Vase Made From DNA

by Jon Cartwright
Nanoscale origami could improve drug delivery
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13 April 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Dark Matter? Keep Looking

by Adrian Cho
Particle detector fails to spot elusive substance
7 April 2011 | ScienceNOW

Holograms in True Color

by Sid Perkins
New technique creates holograms that can be viewed from any angle using white light, not lasers
6 April 2011 | ScienceNOW

Fermilab Physicists See Something Weird ...

by Adrian Cho
But they make no claim of new particle
31 March 2011 | ScienceNOW

Video: Gravity Makes Earth Look Like Lumpy Ball of Play-Doh

by Sid Perkins
Satellite provides best look yet at our planet's gravitational field
25 March 2011 | ScienceNOW

Flipping the World's Smallest Light Switch

by Tim Wogan
Physicists change the electrical conductivity of silicon atoms by moving a single chemical bond
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16 March 2011 | ScienceNOW

Light Slows at the Nanoscale

by Jon Cartwright
Slowed light on a silicon chip could be a boon for quantum memory
25 February 2011 | ScienceNOW

More Evidence Against Dark Matter?

by Adrian Cho
Modified gravity theory alone explains key property of galaxies, one astronomer claims
25 February 2011 | ScienceNOW

Neutron Star Provides Direct Evidence for Bizarre Type of Nuclear Matter

by Adrian Cho
Neutrons pair up much like the free-flowing electrons in a superconductor
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11 February 2011 | ScienceNOW

Podcast: George Washington's Real Face, a Cool Physics Trick, and More

by David Grimm and Robert Frederick
Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week
7 February 2011 | ScienceNOW

Convince Your Friends You're a Genius With Two Cans and Some Sand

by Adrian Cho
A simple physics experiment highlights the surprising nature of granular materials
25 January 2011 | ScienceNOW

Like NASCAR Drivers, Microbes Forced to Circle Forever to the Left

by Adrian Cho
Slick surface effect puts new twist on bacterial motion
13 January 2011 | ScienceNOW

The Solar System Swallower

by Govert Schilling
Astronomers find biggest black hole to date
12 January 2011 | ScienceNOW

Objects in the Telescope May Be Closer Than They Appear

by Govert Schilling
Astronomers rethink some of their "standard candles"
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10 January 2011 | ScienceNOW

Hubble Confirms Nature of Mysterious Green Blob

by Govert Schilling
'Hanny's Voorwerp' has been an enigma since its discovery in 2007
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6 January 2011 | ScienceNOW

Really Hot Doin's Discovered on the Sun

by Richard A. Kerr
Solar physicists can now see one way the million-degree corona is being heated
21 December 2010 | ScienceNOW

New State of Matter Seen in Clay

by Edwin Cartlidge
Ultrastable gel could improve drug delivery
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