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Physics of the thixotropic solution

July 20, 2012
Corn flour and water – it’s a non-Newtonian fluid - but exactly how does it work? This is a question that physicists from the University of Chicago have attempted to...

Milky Way to collide with Andromeda

July 16, 2012
The Milky Way looks set to collide with neighbouring galaxy Andromeda – but not for another four billion years.NASA astronomers predict the Sun will be flung into a new region...

Under construction: new search engine

July 13, 2012
A new type of search engine which draws its results from sensors based in the physical world is being developed by a team of European researchers.SMART – Search engine for...

Splitting the unsplittable atom

July 9, 2012
Researchers in Germany have split the unsplittable and separated a single atom into two halves, pulling it apart and putting it back together again.The laws of quantum mechanics allow objects...

New particle consistent with Higgs found

July 4, 2012
A new particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson has been observed by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN.Both ATLAS and CMS see a strong indication for the presence...

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