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How NASA Worked Around Earth’s Radiation Belts to Land Apollo 11 on the Moon

Margarita Safonova 09/06/2019

Some people believe we never went to the Moon...

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The Strangeness of Murray Gell-Mann

Madhusudhan Raman 31/05/2019

In the 1940s and 1950s, experimentalists dredged up the...

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How Murray Gell-Mann Brought Clarity to a New Force of Nature

G. Rajasekaran 30/05/2019

Though his most well-known contribution is the proposal that...

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Using Ultrafast Laser, ‘Mini’ Particle Accelerator Sets New Energy Record

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/02/2019

Smaller accelerators will be more affordable. In the hands...

CMS detector. Credit: Laura Gilchrist/Flickr, CC BY-ND

A Mystery Particle That Seems to Threaten Our Understanding of Physical Reality

Roger Barlow 08/11/2018

Scientists at Cern's Large Hadron Collider have seen something...

Indu Likes Her Neutrinos Muon-Flavoured

Nandita Jayaraj 01/10/2016

Particle physicist D. Indumathi talks about how she became...