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2016 Breakthrough Prizes announced

December 1, 2015
The winners of the 2016 Breakthrough Prizes – worth $22 million in total (£15 million) – in life sciences, fundamental physics and maths have been announced at a live ceremony...

Attractive forces unlikely to be source of matter – antimatter difference

November 23, 2015
The attractive force between antiprotons – the antiparticle of proton – has been measured for the first time.

From bright stars to dark energy

November 23, 2015
Dr Rita Tojeiro was recently awarded one of five 2015 L’Oréal-UNESCO UK & Ireland Women In Science Fellowships, worth £15,000, to drive her research on dark energy forward. We caught...

Pluto’s largest moon, Charon

November 17, 2015
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best colour and the highest resolution images yet of Pluto's largest moon, Charon.

Mathematicians weigh in on stellar mass

November 4, 2015
Mathematicians have developed a new method for measuring the mass of pulsars. Scientists at the University of Southampton used nuclear physics principles, rather than gravitational pulls between stars and planets,...

The extreme science of ‘White Mars’

November 2, 2015
In one of the coldest, most isolated and remote places on Earth, a multicultural crew of 13 perform challenging research in a wide variety of fields and maintain the Italian-French...

Veil Nebula

November 2, 2015
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a small section of the debris of one of the best-known supernova remnants – Veil Nebula – in stunning detail.

LHC produces ‘littlest liquid’

October 13, 2015
Quark-gluon plasma – a state of matter thought to have existed right at the birth of the Universe – has been produced with fewer particles than previously thought possible.

Stellar mosaic shows close relation with our galactic neighbour

October 8, 2015
Astronomers have found similarities between new-born stars in our galaxy and a neighbouring one.

Neutrino oscillations discovery wins Noble Prize

October 6, 2015
Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald's discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrino particles have mass, has scooped this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.

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