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Matter and antimatter: Flavoursome research
Mar 15th 2012, 4:00 from Print edition
Physicists are closing in on how matter differs from antimatter(15)
Matter, antimatter and the Standard Model: Into unknown territory
Mar 14th 2012, 12:15 from Babbage
ULRIK Egede, a physicist at Imperial College London and a member of CERN's LHCb experiment, on the universe's intriguing asymmetry(4)
Searching for aliens: The wow factor
Mar 8th 2012, 4:00 from Print edition
A new citizen-science project will improve the chances of finding ET(47)
Antimatter: Violating the rules
Mar 7th 2012, 4:41 from Print edition
Are matter and antimatter truly opposites?(18)
Why is the universe made of matter?: Not up to Standard
Mar 1st 2012, 11:46 from Babbage
New results from a defunct experiment shed light on why matter came to dominate the universe(33)
Ofer Lahav on dark energy: An accelerating universe
Feb 21st 2012, 11:36 from Babbage
The head of the science programme at the Dark Energy Survey on the rapidly expanding universe and the future of dark-energy research(37)
Cosmology: The dark side of the universe
Feb 16th 2012, 3:59 from Print edition
Scientists are trying to understand why the universe is running away from them(118)
Particle physics: Violating old rules
Nov 15th 2011, 6:22 from Babbage
At last, tantalising hints of new physics from the Large Hadron Collider(48)
Science in South Africa: All squared
Nov 2nd 2011, 6:18 from Print edition
A new radio telescope may catalyse African science(66)
The 2011 Nobel prizes: Expanding horizons
Oct 5th 2011, 6:17 from Print edition
This year’s prizes were awarded for work on the immune system, the expansion of the universe and quasicrystals(10)
The 2011 Nobel prize for physics: Expanding horizons
Oct 4th 2011, 12:39 from Babbage
This year's Nobel prize for physics was awarded for what was, in a sense literally, the biggest discovery ever made in physics—that the universe is not only expanding, but that the rate of expansion is increasing(61)
Particle physics: The dark at the end of the tunnel?
Sep 14th 2011, 6:17 from Print edition
Evidence for the existence of dark matter begins to stack up(35)
Air travel: Please be seated
Aug 31st 2011, 5:32 from Print edition
A faster way of boarding planes could save time and money(37)
Neutrinos: Delta force
Jun 23rd 2011, 10:54 from Print edition
A study of neutrinos may explain why things are made of matter, not antimatter(12)
Antimatter of fact: A symmetrical universe?
Jun 11th 2011, 9:04 from Babbage (0)
Fundamental physics: Antimatter of fact
Jun 9th 2011, 11:07 from Print edition
Researchers at CERN have held on to anti-atoms for a full quarter of an hour(23)
Futurology: Onward, specks
May 9th 2011, 5:47 from Democracy in America
What will the world, and the human race, look like in the future?(29)
Radio telescopes: Big Astronomy
Apr 5th 2011, 10:18 from Babbage
It's not just particle physicists. Astronomers like their big, expensive toys as well(24)
Experiments under threat: Fire in the hole
Mar 23rd 2011, 1:23 from Babbage
A fire which threatened an important underground physics lab in America is under control. Some other experiments have been less lucky(1)
Simon van der Meer
Mar 17th 2011, 11:53 from Print edition
Simon van der Meer, tamer of subatomic particles, died on March 4th, aged 85(6)
Babbage visits CERN: ALICE in wonderland and other stories
Feb 4th 2011, 11:17 from Babbage
There is more to the LHC than the Higgs boson, and more to CERN than the LHC(23)
Cosmology: Going round in circles
Dec 2nd 2010, 11:05 from Print edition
In contradiction to most cosmologists’ opinions, two scientists have found evidence that the universe may have existed for ever(62)
Antimatter: Gotcha!
Nov 18th 2010, 11:27 from Print edition
Antihydrogen atoms are captured for the first time(0)
Antimatter: Gotcha!
Nov 17th 2010, 2:00 from Web-only article
Antihydrogen atoms are captured for the first time(34)
Betting on science: Odd and ends
Jul 29th 2010, 10:55 from Print edition
Some bookmakers will take bets on anything—even the nature of reality(6)