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Author(s): Nic Fleming Swedish particle physicist Elina Berglund developed a contraception algorithm, based on tracking ovulation rates, while working on the Higgs boson at CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, [...]

Experimental physicist Sheila Rowan works with laser beams and suspended mirrors to sharpen detection of collapsing stars and other celestial events. Experimental physicist Sheila Rowan works with laser beams and suspended mirrors to sharpen detection of collapsing stars and other celestial events., Author(s): Amber Dance Author Affiliations: Sheila Rowan is director of the Institute for Gravitational Research at the University of Glasgow, UK, and chief scientific adviser to the Scottish government. Credit: [...]

Thomas Klinger describes how a once-troubled experimental fusion reactor got back on a solid footing., Author Affiliations: Last December, plasma physicist Thomas Klinger saw almost 15 years of work come to life when the Wendelstein 7-X 'stellarator' -- an experimental nuclear-fusion reactor -- was turned [...]

Q&A DOUGLAS OSHEROFF Finding fascination in nature Douglas Osheroff is a Stanford University physicist focused on ultralow-temperature physics of quantum fluids and solids. Co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in [...]

Theoretical physicist benefits from concrete collaborations., Author(s): Virginia Gewin Author Affiliations: Ashvin Vishwanath, a condensed-matter physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, received a Guggenheim fellowship in April for his exceptional scholarship. It will allow him [...]

Physicist turned microbiologist advances his career with a do-it-yourself approach., Author(s): Virginia Gewin Author Affiliations: Trained as a physicist, Russell Neches is now pursuing a PhD in microbial ecology. A believer in the do-it-yourself approach, Neches, of the University of [...]

Roy Glauber shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2005. He was cited for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence, which explains why many experiments, using lasers [...]

Brian Greene, author of best-selling books The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos, is a theoretical physicist at Columbia University, New York. As an orchestral work based on [...]

Hong Kong inagurates Institutes for Advanced Study. [...]

Did Fermilab welcome the $337.5 million for science in last month's congressional spending bill after a dismal 2008 budget? Fermilab received an allocation of essentially $29.5 million, including $9.5 million [...]

Images of the smallest atom--hydrogen--have been obtained with a transmission electron microscope (TEM), not through building a better microscope, but by developing an almost invisible means of supporting samples. The [...]

Last authors Lithium and beryllium are the first metals encountered in the periodic table, but these light elements do not bond to one another -- at least, not under ambient [...]

Mass spectrometry is a valuable tool for identifying and characterizing biomolecules, but the technology has limitations. Gary Siuzdak, director of the mass spectrometry centre at the Scripps Research Institute in [...]

Genetic mutation is central to evolution, but mutations that improve one aspect of a protein's function can compromise another. Until recently, gene duplication was thought to lead to the development [...]