Stories by Graham P. Collins

Marbles are more difficult to understand than atoms or molecules

Organic crystals show siliconlike abilities and may elucidate fundamental physics

Bose-Einstein condensates are one of the hottest areas in experimental physics

Physicists still struggle to explain high-temperature superconductivity

Tomography from the ground could outdo the Hubble and its successor

CERN appears to have spotted the long-sought quark-gluon plasma--last seen during the big bang

Physicists verify that even gravity itself has weight

Explanations of the science underlying the world's most prestigious awards for physics, chemistry and physiology plus a look at the prizes for peace, won by a physicians organization, and economics

Physicists create Fermi degenerate matter, the stuff of neutron stars, in an ultracold gas

In an exquisite "quantum nondemolition" experiment, physicists see a single photon and then see it again

A superconducting chip suggests a practical path to medium-scale quantum computing

Feedback enables researchers to control an atom's wave function