Cool dust and baby stars
Steve Eales revels in the new view of the universe provided by the Herschel Space Observatory
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What’s in store for 2013?
Celebrate the turn of the year with our predictions of the key physics events of the next 12 months
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Von Neumann’s computer
A book on the early history of practical computers, reviewed by Martin Campbell-Kelly
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Students take cosmic-ray balloon challenge
Can a group of school students get its cosmic-ray detector to work in a hot-air balloon?
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How do you recognize a penguin in a crowd?
Peter Barham explains how penguins possess unique coats
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Giant carbon-capturing funnels discovered in Southern Ocean
Five 1000 km-wide carbon-sink zones identified
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Galaxy cluster motion seen for the first time
Method could also be used to measure cosmological distances
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Material advantage? How new technology and rule changes affect sporting performance
In a great sporting performance, how much of that is down to the athlete and how much to the technology they are using? Steve Haake investigates
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It’s a boson, but what sort?
CERN physicists digest implications of historic discovery
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CERN discovers Higgs-like boson
But is the new particle the Higgs as we know it?
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