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In 2004 the laureates sparked, and then participated in, an explosion of experimental and theoretical work on the single-layer material.

Biologists know that certain kinds of microbes can convert organic waste into useful electric current. They just aren’t yet sure how.

Even with a tightly focused laser beam, only about one one-millionth of the incident light is absorbed.

The serendipitous discovery of strong radio pulses from those rarest of cosmic rays presents the prospect of monitoring large areas of ice or ocean in the quest to unveil their extragalactic origins.

The Obama administration’s initiative for science and technology collaboration with developing nations is complemented by the efforts of scientific organizations.

The US Agency for International Development has its first science adviser in 19 years.

Whether one detector is moved to Australia or left in Washington State, the upgraded version of the three-pronged Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory is expected to deliver results.

The complexities of three countries—India, England, and the US—helped produce a scientist of rare stature and greatness.

Once the astrophysics community had come to grips with a calculation performed by a 19-year-old student sailing off to graduate school, the heavens could never again be seen as a perfect and tranquil dominion.

Five noted scientists, all close colleagues and friends of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, share thoughts and memories of the man whose centennial we celebrate.

Science, like the arts, admits aesthetic criteria; we seek theories that display “a proper conformity of the parts to one another and to the whole” while still showing “some strangeness in their proportion.”

The visually fascinating, elongated shapes that result from anisotropic erosion are the products of varied and sometimes surprising physics.