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Higgs hunters face long haul

Transatlantic bid to discover Higgs particle enters new phase as the LHC prepares to join the fray

Calculations point to massive quark stars

Exotic bodies might be easier to spot than previously thought

Pulsar bursts move 'faster than light'

Anomalous dispersion seen for the first time in space

E8 symmetry spotted in ultracold magnet

Neutron scattering confirms long-standing theoretical predictions

In depth

Law and the end of the world

Edwin Cartlidge examines the case of a US lawyer who believes that the courts must step in if required to halt experiments like the Large Hadron Collider

Between the lines

The other Oppenheimer, cooking for astronauts and the "amazing" Grace Hopper

Chasing nuclear rainbows

J Samuel Walker describes the tortuous story of radioactive waste in the US

Measuring (almost) zero

Chad Orzel explains why a non-zero value for the electron's electric dipole moment could be the harbinger of "new physics"

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