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Has Dogma Derailed the Scientific Search for Dark Matter?

Pavel Kroupa 08/12/2016

The case for dark matter is so overwhelming that...

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The Anomaly at Atomki: Have Scientists Really Found a Fifth Force of Nature?

Vasudevan Mukunth 17/08/2016

The possible discovery of a new particle in Hungary,...

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LUX and LHC Haven’t Found the Particles They Were Looking for? No Problem

Vasudevan Mukunth 08/08/2016

Both the LHC and the LUX dark-matter experiment have...

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Start of LHC’s 2016 Run Suffused With Hopes of a New Particle

Vasudevan Mukunth 16/05/2016

This year is when we might discover another foundational...

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What Wiped Out the Dinosaurs?

Ronak Gupta 10/05/2016

In the brimming potpourri of factors that encouraged the...

In the constellation Cassiopeia, 7,100 lightyears away, a start 45-times as heavy as our Sun is blowing out superhot winds of gas travelling at 6.4 million km/hr. These winds push against the much cooler blanket of interstellar gas, bunching them up along the surface of a giant bubble over seven lightyears across. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

10 Iconic Images to Recall 26 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope

Vasudevan Mukunth 24/04/2016

Because of the popularity of its images, Hubble will...

A cross-sectional view of the ATLAS particle detector adjacent to the LHC complex. Credit: Image Editor/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

LHC Switches On for Experiments in 2016 – What’s in the Pipeline?

The Wire Staff 29/03/2016

Physicists are eagerly awaiting more data concerning a possible...