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Applied Scientist Cryocooler Development - Didcot, UK
Posting date: Nov 19, 2008
Closing date: Dec 17, 2008
Didcot,
Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
Faculty Position in Cosmology (MER) - Geneva, Switzerland
Posting date: Nov 19, 2008
Closing date: Feb 1, 2009
Geneva,
Switzerland
Postgraduate Opportunities - Birmingham, UK
Posting date: Nov 13, 2008
Birmingham,
United Kingdom
Instrument Scientist/Astronomer - Lothian, UK
Posting date: Oct 31, 2008
Closing date: Dec 1, 2008
United Kingdom
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Latest articles
Excess of electrons could point to dark matter Nov 20, 2008
Are WIMPs annihilating nearby?
First 'bona fide' direct images of exoplanets Nov 13, 2008 1 comment
Hubble, Gemini and Keck spot four new planets outside our Solar System
Magnetic shield could protect spacecraft Nov 6, 2008 10 comments
Fusion science shows feasibility of protecting astronauts from cosmic radiation
The digital universe Oct 31, 2008 1 comment
Seth Lloyd looks at the possibility of solving the conundrum of quantum gravity with the tools of information and computation
Solar activity could dictate river flow Oct 29, 2008 1 comment
Sunspot counting could help predict future floods
Galaxy survey casts doubt on cold dark matter Oct 24, 2008 9 comments
Are galaxies simpler than we thought?
India launches first lunar mission Oct 22, 2008 1 comment
Craft to provide 'mineralogical' map of the Moon
IBEX blasts-off to map edge of the solar system Oct 19, 2008 5 comments
NASA spacecraft will tell us how the solar wind interacts with the interstellar medium
Detector has an ear for dark matter Oct 16, 2008 1 comment
Acoustic breakthrough could help find WIMPS
...And now for the next 20 years Oct 1, 2008 3 comments
Six leading physicists peek into the future
The new geography of science Oct 1, 2008
China, Brazil, India and other emerging superpowers are reshaping the scientific landscape and breaking the US–Europe hegemony. James Wilsdon reports on the new balance of power in physics
Life at the frontier Oct 1, 2008 2 comments
Physics has traditionally been viewed as a grand quest to understand the building blocks of matter and the forces holding them together. But as Robert P Crease argues, the reality is no longer that simple
Pop science's big bang Oct 1, 2008
Stephen Hawking’s book A Brief History of Time, first published 20 years ago, reshaped the science publishing landscape. John D Barrow charts the rise of the popular-science book and looks at the huge impact of Hawking’s bestseller on popular culture
The global-village pioneers Oct 1, 2008 1 comment
Paul Ginsparg, who founded the arXiv e-print archive, recounts the early days of the Web and looks at how it has changed scientific communication
Two decades and counting... Oct 1, 2008
Opening this special issue marking the 20th anniversary of the launch of Physics World, Matin Durrani says that the magazine still has a vital role to play in the electronic age
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Classical approximation to quantum cosmological correlations Nov 22, 2007
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