Spinons in a solid behave like quarks

Study reveals how single crystals incorporate polymer strands

Biophysicists change the chirality in developing snail embryos

Low-temperature ions can sterilize hands and wounds

Physicists pass important milestone in spintronics

Novel microscopy technique captures migrating skin cells

Tokai-to-Kamioka experiment will study neutrino oscillations

Calculations show how a turbine can benefit from the wakes of its neighbours

Beams circulated simultaneously at the LHC

Neutron scattering could help make wastewater nanoparticle free

Rare glimpse of planet formation in binary star system

Funding is 'almost certain' to stop after 2012

Isotope's scattering length is 'just right'

Another strange twist found in the physics of holey materials

Pair of trapped ions is first 'universal' quantum computer

Beginnings of crystallization observed for the first time

Are sustained solar minima the norm?

Early life may have formed in seas cooler than previously thought

American Physical Society maintains view that human activities are causing global warming

Plunge-freezing' living cells could improve 3D imaging