The LHC's Seen an Intriguing Glimpse of What Could Be a New Particle
More cosmic LEGO.
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More cosmic LEGO.
That's lunch scuppered, then.
This forty-eight second clip tells us something about why flies stick to a frog’s tongue — and it’s almost scarier than Prometheus.
Bang on schedule, Yuri Malenchenko, Tim Kopra, and Tim Peake took off on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this morning at just after 11:00 GMT, when this powerful image was taken. Read more >>
Next they'll be telling us Rome was built in a day,
If all we had to do was eat fruit and look at trees, we might sleep as much as chimps do.
He's off to the USS ISS today, but how did it come about and are we too old to get on the same career path?
This snail is happily hanging upside down from what looks like a mirror, but it’s actually the surface of the sea.
We know surprisingly little about our oceans. To help with this glaring blind spot, the XPrize has announced a new $7/£4.6 million contest to foster innovations in ocean exploration technology.
Worthless natural remedies have always been popular and have always been big business. Here’s one of the earliest struggles on record.
All thanks to the same kinds of light-scattering nanoparticles unwittingly used by Medieval artisans.
Whip out your telescopes if you want a good look at the gherkin-looking thing.
Godo thing it was prprly chequed over before publishng.
The process is a bit like a teeny tiny blind person’s finger being used to read Braille.
Basic physics suggests that electrons are essentially immortal.