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Interview with CERN Director General Professor Rolf Heuer

December 5, 2012
News
We caught up with CERN Director General Professor Rolf Heuer at the STEMNET Awards at the House of Lords. He gave us an insight into what goes on at CERN...
Physics & Engineering
Particle Physics, Physics
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Moon born in violent collision

December 3, 2012
News
Planetary scientists have discovered evidence that the Moon was created when a body the size of Mars collided with the early Earth. The work was conducted at Washington University in...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics
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New approach for invisibility

November 23, 2012
News
A team at MIT has developed a new approach for allowing objects to become “invisible.” The new concept lets particles “hide” from passing electrons, which could lead to more efficient...
Physics & Engineering
Particle Physics, Physics
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First ever images of Landau levels

November 21, 2012
News
Landau Levels – the quantum levels that determine electron behaviour in a strong magnetic field – have been imaged for the first time by physicists at the University of Warwick...
Physics & Engineering
Physics, Quantum Physics
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Surprise black hole duo discovery

November 19, 2012
News
An international team of astronomers have made an unexpected discovery about globular star clusters – tight-knit collections containing hundreds and thousands of stars. The astronomers were studying globular cluster called...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Meteorite reveals Martian secrets

November 7, 2012
News
A meteorite that landed in the Moroccan desert 14 months ago is providing more clues about Mars, its planet of origin.University of Alberta researchers are studying the Tissint meteorite which...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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The hungry black hole

October 25, 2012
News
A black hole in our galaxy may devour an approaching cloud of dust and gas known as G2. Supercomputer simulations suggest that some of G2 will survive the eating, but...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Stem cells, quantum physics and fight or flight: The Nobel winners 2012

October 20, 2012
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The most prestigious and publicised awards in the science world were announced last month. Stem cell research, ground-breaking quantum methods and the mechanism behind one of the most important group...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Quantum Physics
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Disintegrating planet has comet-like tail

October 19, 2012
News
Astronomers have discovered a faraway planet with a dusty tail. In May 2012, researchers announced that they might have detected a disintegrating exoplanet. Roughly the size of Mercury, the planet...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Building a clock that will last forever

October 15, 2012
News
An experimental design for creating a space-time crystal has been proposed by scientists at Berkeley Lab, based on an electric-field ion trap and the Coulomb repulsion of particles that carry...
Physics & Engineering
Physics
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