Get the speed

The lunar indicator

Joker in the pack of stars

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Lab on the lap

Indian scientists develop a low-cost, easy-to-use physics lab

From the blurbs

The mess over neutrino mass

The neutrino dispute has broken out again, with a new study claiming evidence that the ethereal particle has mass

Bubbles from sound

Fresh lease

Switching speeds

Scientists develop a new switch to revolutionise fibre-opti techniques

Plastic ploys

Dendrimers are about to revolutionise the age of polymers

A matter of consequence

Science's search for the Holy Grail finally comes to an end with the uncovering of the 5th state of matter

Top quark nabbed

Muscle power

Spectra of colour

A Japanese company has developed blue light-emitting diodes using gallium nitride, thus filling the gap in the spectrum of semiconductor light …

It's hot out there

Striking lasers

A semiconductor laser would enhance the performance of telecommunications

Explosions in outer space

Gamma-ray bursts occur daily and are million times brighter than the galaxy

Powerful eye

Unlike orbiters

All aboard for the Red Planet

In tiny specks

...is written the history of the Solar system's formation and life on the Earth

Einstein's drag

Two satellites reveal how Earth's rotation warps space-time

Blobs burning

Structuring made easy

Light relief