Malawi, a small landlocked country in southeast Africa, is home to 13 million people and is one of the least-developed countries in the world. As a nation that relies on subsistence farming, its security is highly dependent ...
Earth Sciences
May 5, 2015
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To boldly go where no one has gone before – it's not science fiction to Matt Covington, an associate professor of geosciences at the University of Arkansas. After completing a doctoral degree in theoretical astrophysics, ...
Environment
Apr 17, 2015
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It is often claimed that the Ancient Greeks were the first to identify objects that have no size, yet are able to build up the world around us through their interactions. And as we are able to observe the world in tinier ...
General Physics
Mar 20, 2015
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The 'Standard Model' of particle physics successfully describes the smallest constituents of matter. But the model has its limitations – it does not explain the dark matter of the universe. Christoffer Petersson, a research ...
General Physics
Mar 4, 2015
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The world's largest atom-smasher could help physicists understand mysterious dark matter in the universe, and later this year it may offer a discovery even more fascinating than the Higgs-Boson, researchers say.
General Physics
Feb 15, 2015
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In particle physics, it's our business to understand structure. I work on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and this machine lets us see and study the smallest structure of all; unimaginably tiny fundamental particles, held ...
General Physics
Jan 30, 2015
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With the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) preparing to restart in a few months, data from its first run has already been bearing fruit.
General Physics
Jan 27, 2015
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Individual protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei turn out not to behave according to the predictions made by existing theoretical models. This surprising conclusion, reached by an international team of physicists including ...
General Physics
Jan 21, 2015
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An anomaly spotted at the Large Hadron Collider has prompted scientists to reconsider a mathematical description of the underlying physics. By considering two forces that are distinct in everyday life but unified under extreme ...
General Physics
Dec 10, 2014
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(Phys.org) —New research by a team of European physicists could explain why the universe did not collapse immediately after the Big Bang.
General Physics
Nov 18, 2014
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