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"Here lies one whose name was writ in water..."

#postARTandSCIENCE: a symposium at the Wellcome Collection, London

'Beautiful mind' John Nash adds Abel Prize to his Nobel

scientific article published in Nature

'Black hole' made from light

scholarly article by Philip Ball published 6 March 2008 in Nature

'Memory of water' biologist dies after heart surgery

scientific article published in October 2004

10 Unsolved Mysteries

scientific article published on 01 October 2011

2020 computing: champing at the bits

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

A Nobel for the art of matchmaking

journal article; published in Nature on 2012-10-16

A circular argument?

scientific article published in Nature

A fine set of whiskers

scientific article published in Nature

A gift for unraveling complexity

scientific article published in Nature

A jump that would prove Newton wrong

scientific article published in Nature

A longer paper gathers more citations

scientific article published on 01 September 2008

A new push for dark matter

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

A new twist on superlubricity

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

A switch in time

scientific article published in Nature

A vanishing interface

scientific article published in Nature

Achievement index climbs the ranks.

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Alchemical culture and poetry in early modern England

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All that glitters

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Another four bricks in the wall

scientific article published on 01 April 2016

Anti-vaccine movement could undermine efforts to end coronavirus pandemic, researchers warn

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

Antigravity craft slips past patent officers.

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Are scientific reputations boosted artificially?

scientific article published in Nature

Arsenic-free water still a pipedream

scientific article published in July 2005

Art and science – work in progress: observations, opportunities, obstacles, vol 1 (of 2)

Arthur Eddington was innocent!

scholarly article published 3 September 2007

Artificial tissues

scientific article published in Nature

Arts: Reinventing Galileo

scientific article published on February 27, 2013

Astrobiology: water, water, everywhere?

scientific article published in January 2004

Back to the future

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

Bacteria may be wiring up the soil

scientific article published in September 2007

Bacteria replicate close to the physical limit of efficiency

journal article ; published in Nature, 20 September 2012

Bacterial designs

scientific article published in Nature

Behind the Mona Lisa's smile

scientific article published in Nature

Behind the periodic table

scientific article published in Nature

Beijing bubbles

scientific article published in Nature

Bending the rules

scientific article published on 18 November 2016

Beyond the bond

scientific article published on January 6, 2011

Beyond words: science and visual theatre

article by Philip Ball published September 2002 in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

Big Bang gravitational effect observed in lab crystal

scientific article published in Nature

Black diamonds

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Botanists' blues

scientific article published in Nature

Brain's 'reading centres' are culturally universal

journal article; published in Nature on 2012-11-26

Burning water and other myths

Bursting the genomics bubble

scientific article published in Nature

COVID-19 economics - first book hits shelves

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Carbon capers

journal article; published in Nature on 1994-12-01

Carl Djerassi (1923-2015).

scientific article published in March 2015

Catch a moving star

scientific article published in Nature

Celebrate the unknowns

scientific article published on April 25, 2013

Cellular memory hints at the origins of intelligence

scientific article published in January 2008

Chain reaction

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

Champagne fizzles out if served with a splash

scientific article published in Nature

Changing your world view

journal article; published in Nature on 2005-12-14

Chaos imagined: literature, art and science

Chaos-theory pioneer nabs Abel Prize

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-03-26

Chaotropicity: a key factor in product tolerance of biofuel-producing microorganisms.

scientific article published on 02 April 2015

Chemical contexts

scientific article published in Nature

Chemical cookbook

scientific article published in Nature

Chemical exchange captures Nobel

scientific article published in October 2005

Chemist honoured for 'carbocations'

scientific article published in Nature

Chemistry comes round

scientific article published in Nature

Chemistry: What chemists want to know

scientific article published in Nature

Chemistry: Why synthesize?

scientific article published in Nature

China's complex material footprint

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Classic fail

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Cognitive science: Mind as mirror

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-04-24

Color theory in science and art: Ostwald and the Bauhaus

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

Colourful work on quarks scoops triple crown

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

Complex clock combines calendars

scientific article published on 01 July 2008

Complex societies evolved without belief in all-powerful deity

scientific article published in Nature

Complexity: Decoding deep similarities

scientific article published in Nature

Computer conference welcomes gobbledegook paper

scientific article (publication date: 21 April 2005)

Computer engineering: Feeling the heat

scientific article published on December 13, 2012

Computer science: Algorithmic rapture

scientific article published in Nature

Concluding remarks: Cum grano salis

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Cosmic coincidence spotted

Cosmic superconductivity

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Counting Google searches predicts market movements

scientific article published in Nature

Crisis response: The new history

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Critical Mass

2004 non-fiction book by Philip Ball

Crowd researchers make pilgrimage safer

Crowd-sourcing: Strength in numbers

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Cultural goldmine lurks in digitized books

scientific article published in Nature

Culture: Artistic alchemy

scientific article published in August 2014

D-Day forecast fictionalized

journal article; published in Nature on 2009-08-12

David Hare's fiery account of COVID-19

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Designs for life

scientific article published in Nature

Diamond films put on display

scientific article published in Nature

Diamonds 'melted' inside an onion

scientific article published in Nature

Drinking up mist

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Economics Nobel for auctions rewards work that has modern-age urgency

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

Economics prize for duo who resolved random results

scientific article published on October 16, 2003

Economists need their own uncertainty principle

scientific article published in Nature

Econophysics: culture crash.

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Elusive forms of water found?

journal article; published in Nature on 2009-06-23

Elusive triangulene created by moving atoms one at a time

scientific article published in February 2017

Engineering Shark skin and other solutions

scientific article published in Nature

Enzymes: By chance, or by design?

scientific article (publication date: 23 September 2004)

Europe's X-ray laser fires up.

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Extreme chemistry: experiments at the edge of the periodic table

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Extreme gels

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Fashioning wet-look latex

scientific article published in Nature

Feel the force

scientific article published in Nature

Feeling the shapes of molecules

scientific article published in Nature

Fiction: Attack of the killer fungi

scientific article published in Nature

First Spectrum of Ball Lightning

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Flies sniff out heavy hydrogen

Fly's eye detector spies cosmic-ray cut-off.

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Forging patterns and making waves from biology to geology: a commentary on Turing (1952) 'The chemical basis of morphogenesis'.

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Forgotten prophet of the Internet

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-05-21

From alchemy to chemistry

scientific article published in Nature

Fullerenes finally score as Nobel committee honours chemists

scientific article published in Nature

Game theorists crack poker

scientific article published in Nature

Genome stitched together by hand

scientific article published in Nature

Geometric whirlpools revealed

Getting oneself together

scientific article published in Nature

Giving meaning to art in hospital care

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Glasses go critical

scientific article published in Nature

Hawking rewrites history... backwards

Helium's deep mystery

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Hidden riddle of shapes solved

scientific article published in Nature

High-profile journals put to reproducibility test

scientific article published in Nature

History of chemistry: Words into gold

scientific article published in Nature

History of science: The crucible of change

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-08-26

History of science: quinine steps back in time

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History: Archive of wonders

scientific article published in Nature

History: Impractical magic

journal article; published in Nature on 2012-02-08

Hits, Misses and Close Calls: An Image Essay on Pattern Formation inOn Growth and Form

How all sizes fit together

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

How many neutrons can an atom hold

scientific article published in Nature

How movies mirror our mimicry

How music opens the doors of memory and the mind

Wellcome Collection story

How poets and filmmakers construe complexity at the Crick Institute

scientific article published in February 2018

How quantum trickery can scramble cause and effect

scientific article published on 01 June 2017

How to get smarter about medical intervention

scientific article published on 12 December 2019

How to keep dry in water

scientific article published on May 1, 2003

How tortoises turn right-side up

scientific article (publication date: 16 October 2007)

Hydrogen fuel could widen ozone hole

In Retrospect: the physics of sand dunes

scientific article published in Nature

In retrospect: A New System of Chemical Philosophy

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In retrospect: Brave New World

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-11-20

In retrospect: On Growth and Form

scientific article published in Nature

In retrospect: Pauling's primer

scientific article published in Nature

In the shadow of Vesuvius

scientific article published in Nature

Index aims for fair ranking of scientists

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India: a turbulent tale of rivers, floods and monsoons

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Information technology: in the know

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Information theory: Knowledge and know-how

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-05-27

Invisibility cloaks are in sight

scholarly article published 22 May 2006

Iranian is first woman to nab highest prize in maths

scientific article published in Nature

Is technology unnatural?

scientific article published in Nature

Islamic tiles reveal sophisticated maths

It's not just you: science papers are getting harder to read

scientific article published in Nature

Jagged edge

scientific article published in Nature

James Lovelock reflects on Gaia's legacy

scientific article published in Nature

James Randi (1928-2020)

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Kathy Niakan: at the forefront of gene editing in embryos

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Knot a crystal

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Laser fusion experiment extracts net energy from fuel

scientific article published in Nature

Laser looks under the surface of art

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-01-20

Learning from scratch

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Learning from the big picture

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Learning from the rainbow

scientific article published in Nature

Lessons from cold fusion, 30 years on

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Lessons in molecular gymnastics

scientific article published in Nature

Let's catch some rays

scientific article published in Nature

Letters defend Nobel laureate against Nazi charges

scientific article published in Nature

Light tamers

scientific article (publication date: February 2013)

Light wormholes could wire space invisibly

scientific article published in Nature

Limits to growth

scientific article published in Nature

Living robots

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Magnetic molecules

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Martin Fleischmann (1927–2012)

scientific article published on September 6, 2012

Masters of disguise

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Material Witness: A jammy guess?

scientific article published in November 2016

Material Witness: A recipe for growth

scientific article published on 01 December 2016

Material Witness: Engines of imagination

scientific article published on 01 May 2016

Material Witness: Making anyon soup

scientific article published on 01 June 2017

Material Witness: Metallic hydrogen in the spotlight

scientific article published on 01 February 2017

Material Witness: Old gold - or new?

scientific article published in January 2017

Material Witness: Plastics on the menu

scientific article published on 01 May 2017

Material Witness: Pumping muscles

scientific article published on 01 September 2017

Material Witness: Renewing old promises

scientific article published on 01 August 2008

Material Witness: Spinning top-ology

scientific article published on 01 January 2016

Material Witness: The Roman melting pot.

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Material witness. Rollobots

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

Material witness. Technology takes tiny steps

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Material witness: A graphene explosion

scientific article published on 01 March 2015

Material witness: A light compass?

scientific article published on 23 November 2011

Material witness: A matter of taste

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Material witness: A new design course

scientific article published on 01 February 2016

Material witness: A new twist for OLEDs

scientific article published on 01 July 2016

Material witness: A pinch of salt

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

Material witness: A place for making

scientific article published in May 2013

Material witness: A quick fix

scientific article published on 24 October 2011

Material witness: A quick fix

scientific article published on 23 September 2011

Material witness: A sense of dislocations

scientific article published on 01 October 2015

Material witness: A symphony of materials

scientific article published on 01 August 2017

Material witness: Against the flow

scientific article published on 21 June 2012

Material witness: All that glitters

scientific article published in January 2018

Material witness: And the winner is....

scientific article published on 01 October 2013

Material witness: Beanbag robotics

scientific article published on 01 November 2010

Material witness: Beyond the crystal

scientific article published on 01 November 2014

Material witness: Breaking the mould

scientific article published on 24 January 2012

Material witness: Bright new start for Europe?

scientific article published on 01 August 2016

Material witness: Bringing crystals to life

scientific article published on 01 October 2012

Material witness: Caged water

scientific article published on 23 August 2011

Material witness: Carbon tailoring

scientific article published on 01 February 2011

Material witness: Close to the edge

scientific article published on 01 September 2016

Material witness: Cluster control

scientific article published on 21 February 2012

Material witness: Colloids get active

scientific article published on 01 August 2013

Material witness: Concrete mixing for gorillas

scientific article published on 01 May 2015

Material witness: Correcting errors in self-assembly

scientific article published on 01 December 2015

Material witness: Could polythene clothes be cool?

scientific article published on 01 September 2015

Material witness: Cross purposes.

scientific article published in August 2009

Material witness: Fab DIY

scientific article published on 01 May 2005

Material witness: Feel the force

scientific article published on 01 June 2007

Material witness: Forever hard

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

Material witness: Fractal standstill

scientific article published on 01 December 2010

Material witness: From pillar to post

scientific article published on 01 April 2016

Material witness: Gene memories

scientific article published on 01 March 2017

Material witness: Get a grip

scientific article published in October 2017

Material witness: Get knotted

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

Material witness: Graphene finds its place

scientific article published on 01 March 2014

Material witness: Holding Rome together

scientific article published on 01 February 2015

Material witness: How does it feel?

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Material witness: Improving pore performance.

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Material witness: In the footsteps of the sea stars

scientific article published in June 2014

Material witness: Is this holy relic preserved?

Material witness: Joint enterprise.

scientific article published in January 2014

Material witness: Keeping art alive

scientific article published on 15 December 2011

Material witness: Liquid-state particle physics

scientific article published on 01 August 2015

Material witness: Magnetic botany

scientific article published on 01 June 2010

Material witness: Making space for shape

scientific article published in December 2013

Material witness: Material computation

scientific article published on 23 April 2012

Material witness: Materials touch across the void

scientific article published on 01 November 2015

Material witness: Nano contraception

scientific article published on 01 July 2013

Material witness: Natural waterproofing

scientific article published on 01 April 2009

Material witness: No substitute

scientific article published on 01 February 2014

Material witness: None more black

scientific article published on 01 April 2016

Material witness: Old gold

scientific article published on 01 September 2008

Material witness: Older and madder

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

Material witness: Oyster glue

scientific article published in October 2010

Material witness: Particle traps

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Material witness: Pasta physics

scientific article published on 01 July 2010

Material witness: Peeling without pain

scientific article published on 01 December 2012

Material witness: Pipe dreams

scientific article published on 01 April 2010

Material witness: Printing on the brain

scientific article published in May 2010

Material witness: Pushing nanotubes to the limit

scientific article published on 01 June 2015

Material witness: Quantum leaves in fact and fiction

scientific article published on 01 August 2010

Material witness: Relaxing the vacuum

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

Material witness: Searching the web.

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Material witness: Seeking comfort in the Iron Age

scientific article published on 01 July 2017

Material witness: Shaking hands with robots

scientific article published in November 2009

Material witness: Shaping fate

scientific article published on 01 March 2009

Material witness: Shock relief

scientific article published on 01 September 2012

Material witness: Slippery concepts

scientific article published on 22 July 2011

Material witness: Soft-hearted robots

scientific article published on 01 April 2014

Material witness: Sound sense of direction

scientific article published on 01 April 2011

Material witness: Stellar metallurgy

scientific article published on 01 May 2014

Material witness: Superconducting when wet

scientific article published on 01 May 2009

Material witness: The Turing touch test

scientific article published on 01 April 2015

Material witness: The art of maintenance

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Material witness: The clean air act

scientific article published on 01 July 2014

Material witness: The complex costs of faking it

scientific article published on 01 July 2015

Material witness: The final cut

scientific article published on 01 January 2015

Material witness: The force of shape

scientific article published on 01 December 2014

Material witness: The smallest metals

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Material witness: This season's colours

scientific article published on 01 June 2016

Material witness: Towards a materials ecology

scientific article published in December 2003

Material witness: Trouble on the silk road

Material witness: Two ways to relax

scientific article published on 24 July 2012

Material witness: Updating the eureka

scientific article published on 22 May 2012

Material witness: Watching ice spin

scientific article published in February 2013

Material witness: Watching paint dry

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

Material witness: Web designers

Material witness: Well preserved?

scientific article published on 01 December 2009

Material witness: What makes nanomachines work?

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

Material witness: What's philosophy got to do with it?

scientific article published on 01 February 2009

Material witness: Who made the first glass?

scientific article published in November 2017

Material witness: Why is boron so hard?

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Material witness: Why leaves have stones

Material witness: Yet more layers

scientific article published in September 2013

Material witness: Yoghurt under stress

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

Material witness: a twisted tale

scientific article published on 01 November 2008

Material witness: a wardrobe for Mars

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Material witness: birth of the blues

scientific article published in December 2005

Material witness: body painting

scientific article published in August 2005

Material witness: call yourself hard?

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

Material witness: casting problems

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Material witness: cell physics

Material witness: cold comfort

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Material witness: cutting-edge metallurgy

scientific article published on 01 August 2014

Material witness: dynamic days

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

Material witness: faux food to the rescue?

scientific article published on 01 August 2004

Material witness: flat out C60

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Material witness: golden wonder

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Material witness: greatest hits

scientific article published on 01 February 2008

Material witness: green-sky thinking

scientific article published in March 2008

Material witness: higher Tc?

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Material witness: juggling with liquids

scientific article published on 01 December 2008

Material witness: licking lignin

scientific article published in August 2007

Material witness: living crystals

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Material witness: materials matchmaking

scientific article published on 01 July 2008

Material witness: natural order

scientific article published on 01 October 2007

Material witness: nature versus naturoid

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Material witness: no nails

scientific article published on 01 February 2006

Material witness: patent pending

scientific article published on 01 June 2003

Material witness: poison plastic?

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Material witness: proof by construction

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

Material witness: pulling a leg

scientific article published on 01 December 2006

Material witness: quantum writ large

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

Material witness: shrouded in mystery.

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Material witness: silicon still supreme

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

Material witness: sink or swim

scientific article published on 23 June 2011

Material witness: smart tipping

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

Material witness: sonic sense

scientific article published in April 2006

Material witness: starting to shine

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Material witness: taking lessons from the book

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Material witness: tendentious tilings

scientific article published on 01 July 2007

Material witness: the materials of history

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

Material witness: virtuosi's choice

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Material witness: watching wood dry

scientific article published on 01 October 2014

Material witness: what's so pure about science?

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

Material witness: when water doesn't wet.

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Materials innovation from quantum to global

scientific article published in 2022

Mathematician wins award for shaping algebra

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-03-20

Maths polymath scoops Abel award

Meteors come in with a bang

scientific article (publication date: 4 January 2001)

Model behaviour

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Moonage daydreams of space rock

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

More than a bystander

scientific article published in Nature

More than meets the eye

Movement from nothing

Musicians' appearances matter more than their sound

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-08-19

Mystery of 'chirping' pyramid decoded

Nanobubbles are not a Superficial Matter

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

Nature's color tricks.

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Near-perfect 'black'

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

Needles in a carbon haystack

scientific article published in Nature

Neuroaesthetics is killing your soul

scientific article published in Nature

Neutron scattering reaps Nobel for physics

scientific article published in Nature

New chemistry revives elementary question

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-01-12

New dating agency for artists

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

New horizons in inner space

scientific article published in Nature

Nuclear waste gets star attention

scientific article (publication date: 31 July 2006)

Off and on reflection

scientific article published in Nature

Ordering the void

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Origami that folds itself

scientific article published in Nature

Out of step with time

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Painting the whole picture?

scientific article published in Nature

Paper trail reveals references go unread by citing authors

scientific article published in December 2002

Peering into the heart of a black hole

scientific article published in Nature

Perkin, the mauve maker

journal article; published in Nature on 2006-03-22

Physicists fail to find saving grace for falsified research

scientific article published in Nature

Physicists in China challenge Google's 'quantum advantage'

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

Physicists make ripples with their 'magic carpet'

scientific article published in Nature

Physicists rewarded for ‘fractional electrons’

journal article; published in Nature on 1998-10-15

Physics of life: The dawn of quantum biology

scientific article published on June 15, 2011

Physics: Morals and madness

journal article; published in Nature on 2012-07-11

Physics: Quantum quest

scientific article published in Nature

Physics: Radiant realms

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-02-17

Physics: quantum all the way

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Picking up the chemical thread

scientific article published in Nature

Picture this

scientific article published in July 2002

Playing dirty

scientific article published in Nature

Portrait of a molecule

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Predicting human activity

scientific article published in Nature

Preparatory planning framework for Created Out of Mind: Shaping perceptions of dementia through art and science

scientific article published on 6 November 2017

Prestige is factored into journal ratings

scientific article published in February 2006

Prize lifts prospects for gravity wave detectors

scientific article published in Nature

Proof claimed for deep connection between primes

scientific article published in Nature

Proteins remember the past to predict the future

journal article; published in Nature on 2012-10-04

Psychology: Improbable heroes

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-10-02

Publishing: The journal that publishes no papers

scientific article published on September 2015

Q&A: Relativistic composer

journal article; published in Nature on 2012-05-02

Quantum meld brings photons together

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-05-09

Quantum objects on show

scientific article published in Nature

Quantum optics: cheat detection

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

Quantum power packs

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Quark statistics shed light on Universe's symmetry

scientific article published on 01 April 2009

Race for quantum supremacy hits theoretical quagmire

journal article; published in Nature on 2017-11-13

Radio sweat gland--90 GHz

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Reading the atmosphere

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Resources: Silt, dams and hydraulic heroes

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-01-07

Rethinking silk's origins

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Robot copes with shifting sands

journal article; published in Nature on 2009-02-09

Round 'em up

scientific article published in Nature

Scandal of crystal design...

journal article; published in Nature on 1996-6

Scepticism greets pitch to detect dark energy in the lab.

scientific article published in July 2004

Schoenberg, serialism and cognition: Whose fault if No one listens?

Schrödinger's cat ensnared

scientific article published in Nature

Schrödinger?s kittens enter the classical world

scientific article published in Nature

Schrödinger’s cat among biology’s pigeons: 75 years of What Is Life?

scientific article published in Nature

Science & music: facing the music.

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Science at the atomic scale

scientific article published in Nature

Science in culture

Science in culture

Science in culture

article published in 2000

Science in culture

Science in culture

Science in culture

Science in culture: The zenith of Islamic science

scientific article published in Nature

Science lobby urges UK to divert funds from military fields

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Science must move with the times

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Science papers rarely cited in negative ways

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-10-26

Scientific instrumentation: The aided eye

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-04-08

Scientists can publish their best work at any age

scientific article published in Nature

Scientists make the 'perfect' foam

article published in 2011

Sea-level rise is quickening pace

scientific article (publication date: 16 January 2006)

Searching under pressure

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Shipping timetables debunk Darwin plagiarism accusations

Small change

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Small problems

scientific article published in Nature

Smallest genome clocks in at 182 genes

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Social science goes virtual

scientific article published in Nature

Sodium's explosive secrets revealed

scientific article published in Nature

Solar flares set off sunquakes

Some like it hot

Somewhere over the rainbow

scientific article published in Nature

Splitting the quark

scientific article published in Nature

Spongy carbon tubes take the strain

journal article; published in Nature on 2008-10-10

Spreading it about

scientific article published in Nature

Squeezing diamond from fullerenes

scientific article published in Nature

Statistics: the physics of society

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Still seeking coherence

scientific article published on 01 March 2018

Strict ordering slashes tarmac time

scientific article published on 01 February 2008

Superconducting boost for goldfish

scientific article published in Nature

Superstition challenged

journal article; published in Nature on 2009-06-10

Synthetic biology: Designs for life

scientific article published in Nature

Synthetic biology: starting from scratch

scientific article published in October 2004

Taking the temperature of a sand pile

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Tall tales

Text mining uncovers British reserve and US emotion

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-03-21

The benefits of disorder

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

The dune chorus

scientific article published in Nature

The epic battle against coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

The hidden structure of liquids

scientific article published on 01 August 2014

The huge scientific effort to study Notre-Dame's ashes

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

The lightning-fast quest for COVID vaccines - and what it means for other diseases

scientific article published on 18 December 2020

The mathematics of science's broken reward system

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-11-16

The moral challenge of invisibility

scientific article published in Nature

The most accurate measurement ever made

scientific article published in Nature

The myth and magic of plastic

scientific article published on 01 November 2004

The natural way to leave an impression

scientific article published in Nature

The perfect nanotube

scientific article published in Nature

The plastic legacy

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

The price of happiness

scientific article published in Nature

The problems of biological information

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The quest for materials solutions to the coronavirus pandemic

scientific article published on 04 October 2020

The shapes of things to come

scientific article published in Nature

The surface of liquid

scientific article published in Nature

The unavoidable cost of computation revealed

Theatre: A monstrous tale

scientific article published in Nature

Theatre: Atomic tragedian

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-02-18

Theatre: Lab's labour's lost

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-09-23

Theatre: Newton's rainbow

scientific article published in Nature

Theatre: The chief designer

article by Philip Ball published May 2011 in Nature

Theoretical chemistry makes its mark

scientific article published in Nature

There's more to life than sequences

journal article; published in Nature on 2009-03-12

They really were the Dark Ages

To the heart of glass

scientific article published in Nature

Triumph of the medieval mind

scientific article published in April 2008

Turning light into matter

Two slits and one hell of a quantum conundrum

scientific article published in Nature

Universal law of coiling

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

Universal view nets award for cosmic sleuths

scientific article published in October 2002

Unmixing the cell

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Unnatural reactions

scientific article published on 01 June 2014

Waking up old instruments

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

War is not an exact science

scientific article published in Nature

Water and life: seeking the solution

scientific article published in August 2005

Water as a biomolecule

scientific article published on December 2008

Water as an active constituent in cell biology

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Water goes with the flow

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