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Concerns raised over Institute of Physics climate submission

Mar 11, 2010

Institute faces criticism over its evidence to UK parliamentary inquiry on climate change

Galaxy study backs general relativity

Mar 10, 2010 8 comments

Future is bright for the dark sector

UK science risks relegation, warns Royal Society

Mar 9, 2010 2 comments

"Decades of slow economic decline" predicted unless investment in science increases

Earth's magnetic field older than we thought

Mar 9, 2010 2 comments

But it offered little defence against a young, aggressive Sun

RHIC nets strange antimatter

Mar 5, 2010 12 comments

First antihypertriton detected at US lab

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Science and the general election

Mar 10, 2010

Yesterday, the science ministers for the UK's three main parties attempted to put science policy on the agenda.

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Feb 11, 2009

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The eerie silence

Mar 2, 2010

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Mar 2, 2010

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The Majorana mystery

Mar 2, 2010

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