How do you create an inquisitive mind? Simply accumulating knowledge isn't good enough, suggest Lei Bao and colleagues (Am. J. Phys. 77, 1118–1123; 2009). Specifically, the teaching and learning of ...

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Experiments show fusion plasma can stay stable at higher densities by controlling reactor walls, challenging long-standing limits.

A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking ...

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One of the biggest problems facing modern microelectronics is that computer chips can no longer be made arbitrarily smaller and more efficient. Materials used to date, such as copper, are reaching ...