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Professor Peter Higgs collects Nobel Prize for `God particle`

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 23:54

Professor Peter Higgs has received his Nobel prize for physics at a ceremony in Stockholm.

Use of Roman ingots in `dark matter and neutrinos study` sparks controversy

Last Updated: Monday, December 2, 2013, 19:30

The properties of the lead bricks recovered from ancient Roman shipwrecks are ideal for experiments in particle physics and scientists have begun to use them to study dark matter and neutrinos, but archaeologists have raised alarm about the destruction and trading of cultural heritage that lies behind this.

CERN scientists to look for antigravity

Last Updated: Monday, December 2, 2013, 18:59

In what could be their most revolutionary project to date, CERN physicists are set to begin an experiment to determine if antigravity exists.

Biocentrism can prove the existence of afterlife, claims scientist

Last Updated: Saturday, November 16, 2013, 18:28

An expert has claimed to have come up with definitive evidence that there is indeed life after death.

Quantum memory world record smashed

Last Updated: Friday, November 15, 2013, 18:59

A fragile quantum memory state has been shown to survive at room temperature for a world record 39 minutes, overcoming a key barrier towards building ultrafast quantum computers.

Stephen Hawking says God particle discovery makes physics boring

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 16:59

Stephen Hawking has said that physics would have been more interesting if the Higgs boson particle hadn`t been found.

CV Raman’s 125th birth anniversary marked with Google doodle

Last Updated: Thursday, November 7, 2013, 09:33

Google is celebrating physicist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman’s 125th birth anniversary with a doodle of his Nobel Prize winning discovery, the Raman Effect, on India homepage.

New mathematical model brings quantum computers closer to reality

Last Updated: Saturday, October 26, 2013, 20:57

A research team has developed a mathematical model for a type of microscopic test lab that could provide new and deeper insight into the world of quantum particles.

Soon, 5-person submarine to take tourists 2 miles under sea

Last Updated: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 11:27

A local submersible company Oceangate has collaborated with the University of Washington`s Applied Physics Laboratory, to construct a five-person submarine that would travel almost 2 miles below the ocean`s surface.

New breakthrough could help raise fuel efficiency of future vehicles

Last Updated: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 11:24

The development of devices called plasma actuators has advanced the promise of controlling flows in new ways that raise lift, reduce drag and improve aerodynamic efficiencies.

`Dark universe` beckons as research target after Higgs boson wins Nobel

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 09:09

With the Higgs boson in the bag, the head of the CERN research center urged scientists on Tuesday to push on to unveil the "dark universe" - the hidden stuff that makes up 95 percent of the cosmos and is still a mystery to earthbound researchers.

`God Particle` Nobel ticks boson box for CERN

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 22:34

The reflected glory of a Nobel prize for the minds behind the "God particle" sent champagne corks popping at Europe`s top physics lab CERN Tuesday, vindicating its landmark discovery a year ago.