Someday China will be running circles around the U.S. in biotech and solid-state physics.

FORBES: The Economics of Envy

Suhail Khan's father was the late Mahboob Khan, a PhD in solid-state physics.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Khan Job

G6 mainframe computer depends on the use of silicon chips with copper connections that draw on solid-state physics research done in the firm's laboratory in the 1980s.

ECONOMIST: Philips

Dr Cirac and Dr Romero-Isart therefore propose putting the virus inside a microscopic cavity and cooling it down to its state of lowest energy (ground state, in physics parlance) using a piece of apparatus known as a laser trap.

ECONOMIST: An old thought experiment may soon be realised

Kocher, son of a physics professor at Oregon State University in Corvallis, says he learned about computing because he stayed home a lot, too lazy to bike the two miles into town.

FORBES: Issues & Ideas

By 2010, my beloved North High, where I had taught Physics for 13 years, was the lowest scoring school in the state of Iowa.

WHITEHOUSE: Change the Shape of the Floor

The results of the study were reported at the American Astronomical Society Solar Physics Division Meeting, which is being held from June 12 to 16 at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.

MSN: Solar storms sparked by giant 'magnetic rope,' study finds

They hire better-qualified teachers, and more of them, offering higher salaries to lure those with qualifications in difficult subjects such as physics, mathematics and foreign languages, and now have twice as many teachers per pupil as state schools do.

ECONOMIST: Private education