Physics
- January 14 - Physicists from Pennsylvania State University produce the first solid Bose–Einstein condensate.
- January - A team from the JILA laboratory in Boulder, Colorado announce the creation of a fermionic condensate, the first such condensate made from atoms rather than molecules.
- February 3 - Russian and American physicists produce results that indicate the discovery of elements 113 and 115.
- March 22 - A team from Australia, Russia and Greece announce a new material, made from a nano-foam of carbon that has the lowest density ever reported for a solid.
- April 20 - NASA launches Gravity Probe B in an effort to test Einstein's general theory of relativity.
- May 19 - A team of European scientists produces the first Tonks-Girardeau gas.
- September 24 - Physicists from the Université Joseph Fourier and the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France announce the discovery of a solution (a-cyclodextrine, water, and 4-methylpyridine) that changes from liquid to solid when heated, and melts again when cooled down.
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