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Graphene-based chips a step closer, say researchers

...Tsukuba, Japan. The researchers published a paper detailing their discoveries in Nature Physics on Monday. Graphene research was promised £50m funding by chancellor George Osborne... Read more

11 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner
What is graphene?

What is graphene?

Carbon is valuable as diamond and in oil, but a new form of the pure element may be even more important in our future. ZDNet UK presents the first in a series of features on graphene Read more

6 June, 2011 by Lucy Sherriff

Photos: QR codes, herbal medicine and ping pong? Welcome to the Urban Physic Garden

...sewage waste disposal unit so the volunteers and visitors of the Urban Physic Garden can have a minimal impact on the local ecology. Photo: Shelley... Read more

24 June, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Endeavour launches with particle physics payload

...Endeavour launched on Monday on its final mission, carrying a $2bn particle physics experiment to the International Space Station. Photo credit: Nasa Carrying a $2bn... Read more

17 May, 2011 by William Harwood

LHC ready for new physics discoveries

...It took 100 years to discover all the physics particles that have so far been observed. It took the Large Hadron... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

US Higgs boson data backs CERN's findings so far

...finding.The data, from the Tevatron particle collider, was presented at a physics conference in Italy, and indicate that the particle could exist at a... Read more

7 March, 2012 by Martin LaMonica

CERN ramps up LHC energy for Higgs boson search

...mass under a set of theories known as the Standard Model of physics. Supersymmetry predicts a partner particle for every particle in the Standard Model... Read more

13 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Traces of Higgs boson found at CERN

...called the Higgs boson, one of the most highly sought goals in physics. The team at CERN has presented what may be traces of the... Read more

13 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Cern taps home PCs for virtual atom smashing

...atom-smasher for home computers, which allows people to contribute to fundamental physics research from the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC@home 2.0 platform... Read more

9 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft releases Daytona data analytics tool

...massive data in their work in areas such as environmental science, particle physics, astronomy and other disciplines. Analysing that information becomes ever more cumbersome. Microsoft... Read more

19 July, 2011 by Jay Greene

Cern physicists trap antimatter for 16 minutes

...publication on Sunday of a paper from Alpha experiment physicists in Nature Physics, outlining how they traped antimatter for 16 minutes. "We can now start... Read more

6 June, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Nasa approves Endeavour shuttle launch for 29 April

...flight will deliver supplies, spare parts and a $2bn (£1.2bn) particle physics detector to the International Space Station (ISS), while astronauts will conduct four... Read more

20 April, 2011 by William Harwood

Manchester graphene researchers land Nobel Prize

...of Manchester scientists have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on graphene, widely seen as having the potential to... Read more

5 October, 2010 by Karen Friar

Heat promises to speed up hard-disk data storage

...happens. However, an international team led by the University of York's physics department has now managed to invert the polarity using extremely short bursts... Read more

8 February, 2012 by David Meyer
Cambridge puts Newton's papers online

Cambridge puts Newton's papers online

...developed to arrive at the principles of what are now called Newtonian physics, were put on the Cambridge Digital Library site on Monday, giving the... Read more

13 December, 2011 by James Martin

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