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“It’s a Boson:” Higgs Quest Bears New Particle
Scientists at Europe’s CERN research centre have found a new subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe,...
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Hubble Telescope Sees Celestial Fireworks for Fourth of July
A spectacular new picture from the Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic fireworks display in deep space: a...
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Space Tourism’s Next Destination May Be the Moon
Frank Sinatra would have been happy to learn that a U.K. company called Excalibur Almaz wants to literally fly...
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Physicists Find New Particle, but Is it the Higgs?
Physicists in Europe will present evidence of an entirely new particle on July 4, Nature has learned. But more...
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Humble DNA Could Help Decipher Dark Matter
A few strands of DNA could help solve the mystery of dark matter. A newly proposed detector aims to...
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U.S. Scientists See Stronger Hints of Higgs
Hints of the Higgs boson detected last year by a US “atom smasher” have become even stronger, scientists have...
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NASA: Space Station Science at Critical Point
It’s time to get serious about science in space, and the International Space Station is the perfect place to...
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Could LHC Discover Particle Behind Both Mass and Cosmic Inflation?
Within a sliver of a second after it was born, our universe expanded staggeringly in size, by a factor...
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God Particle Announcement Looms
Scientists from CERN will announce on July 4 whether the tantalizing “hints” of the Higgs Boson which they presented...
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Spray-On Battery Turns Beer Mug Into Power Source
Rice University researchers have come up with a way to spray-paint a lithium-ion battery onto pretty much any smooth...