On-line version of this article. Departments Search and Discovery Geodynamo turns toward a stable magnetic field. Supercomputer simulation shows that fluid motions in Earth's core could sustain the geomagnetic field. T c superconductors. Link to High-Tc Update .
Experimenters cool helium below single-photon recoil limit in three dimensions.
Oak Ridge builds facility for radioactive ion beams. Oak Ridge National Laboratory has recently completed the construction of a radioactive ion beam facility to create nuclei at the limits of stability.