Stories by Graham P. Collins

Like interstellar travel, time machines and cyberspace, nanotechnology has become one of the core plot devices on which science-fiction writers draw

This slideshow is part of a package that supplements our story on quantum erasure in the May issue of Scientific American

The Physics Behind A Nuclear Dud

Carbon structures provide new devices and remarkable physics

New superconducting wires come closer to market

An experiment may have seen an elusive new particle

Welcome to Vredefort, a real Bermuda Triangle

A machine based on bizarre particles called anyons that represents a calculation as a set of braids in spacetime might be a shortcut to practical quantum computation

Atomic ions prove their quantum versatility

New process slashes the cost of quantum dots

The march toward less expensive, more flexible electronics continues

Qubits might spontaneously decay in seconds

Low-energy atoms of antihydrogen will enable researchers to test a fundamental property of the universe

Producing 3-d images of electron orbitals

Solid helium can behave like a superfluid

Physicists gaze into the crystal ball

Is the black hole information paradox solved?

Organic semiconductor devices can make more than just bendable displays. They will find use in wearable electronics, chemical sensors, skin for robots and innumerable other applications

Magnetic nanofoam is found to be ferromagnetic

A Russian mathematician has proved the century-old Poincaré conjecture and completed the catalogue of three-dimensional spaces. He might earn a $1-million prize

Gone: two possible superconducting "glues"