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By growing very pure crystals of the pentacene family and by devising an ingenious technique for charge injection, a Bell Labs team has gotten these organic materials to display wondrous properties.

With carefully chosen pulse sequences, practitioners of solid‐state NMR are closing in on a much‐sought prize in structural biology: the ability to unravel the molecular structure of membrane transport proteins.

If gravity leaks out into macroscopic extra dimensions, we may soon find departures from the inverse‐square law at millimeter separations.

Delicate sculpting of femtosecond laser pulses can yield dramatic effects in nonlinear light‐atom interactions.

Accelerating demands for high‐speed communications are driving rapid innovations in lightwave communication, including versatile, high‐bandwidth fibers, sources, amplifiers, and switches.

Not just the repository of our genetic information, DNA is also a fascinating, shape‐shifting molecule whose behavior in solution counters our intuition and challenges our physical understanding.

Researchers have taken giant strides down several paths toward trapping molecules at submillikelvin temperatures. At the end of these paths lie the promise of more precise measurements and new phenomena.