All Stories by Gabriel Popkin
- Materials Science
Looking unbelievably cool
Everything above absolute zero gives off some heat. Usually objects radiate more heat — or energy — as their temperature climbs. But engineers now have created a material that sometimes appears to cool even as it is warming.
- Physics
Higgs brings physicists a Nobel
Anticipating the so-called “god particle” — and its critical role in explaining mass — captured the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics.
