Category: Highlights

The cream from the physics arXiv blog this week: The science of the Grateful Dead The magnetic magic of liquid mirrors How to build a warp drive The weather on HD 189733b Dark energy and the bitterest pil

The rough diamonds from the physics arxivblog this week: The curious kernels of dictionaries Simple mod turns diode into photon counter Can entanglement exist in biological systems? Why red dwarfs could reveal first Earth-like planets If invisibility cloaks don’t work, try the invisibility sheet

The nacre from this week’s physics arxiv blog: The curious kernels of dictionaries Group theory and spinal injuries Global warming and the climate of fear How many pedestrians can squeeze through a corridor?

The treasures from this week’s physics arXiv blog: Extraterrestrial nucleobases found in meteorite How to bury an ion (and find it again later) The embarrassing lightness of photons Why gamma ray bursts are not standard candles First X-ray diffraction image of a single virus

This week’s sweetmeats from the physics arXiv blog: Testing “spooky action-at-a-distance” on the International Space Station Oil prices: a classic bubble economy? Cellphone records reveal the basic pattern of human mobility Let the SPIT wars begin How to build a quantum eavesdropper

The pearls from the physics arxiv blog this week Supernova echoes give first glimpse of ancient explosions Which way does antimatter fall? The science of scriptwriting Why do online opinions evolve differently to offline ones? Western Europe warming much faster than expected  

The pearls from this week’s arXivblog: VoIP threatened by steganographic attack The surprisingly rich physics of peeling paper Friction-free sliding observed in nanoparticles How to turn a narrow slit into a large window The mystery of the Plutonic color scheme

The peaches from the arXivblog this week: The trouble with optical invisibility cloaks Why ET will phone using neutrinos not photons Can dark matter explain the flyby anomalies? Dark energy linked to supervoids and superclusters First test of exotic space thruster ends in explosion

This week’s sure things from the arXiv blog: Speech therapy revolutionised by hi-tech dentures World’s oldest social network reconstructed from medieval land records Phobos could form Saturn-like ring around Mars How ESA plans to search for other Earth’s How orbiting electrons can lengthen nuclear half-life

…the pearls from this week’s physics arXiv blog: First evidence that water forms in interstellar space Why tiny helicopters are so hard to fly The puzzling discovery of a motor made from liquid film Blind date gives astronomers a new love of the stars The mathematics of tackling tax evasion