Physicists find a particle accelerator in the sky
Radio waves suggest lightning 'sprites' create powerful electron beams
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New element 117 discovered
Progress on route to the superheavy island of stability
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Argonne lab tackles exotic nuclei
First results obtained from new Helical Orbit Spectrometer
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RHIC nets strange antimatter
First antihypertriton detected at US lab
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The Majorana mystery
Salvatore Esposito examines the life of troubled Italian genius Ettore Majorana
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Nuclear physics gets a stepping stone to the ‘island of stability’
First direct mass measurement of a trans-uranium element
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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
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Budget deficit threatens Japanese science
Scientists braced for severe cuts to the country’s research programme
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LHC speeds towards collisions
Beams circulated simultaneously at the LHC
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Laser creates record-breaking protons
High-energy protons could yield compact source for cancer therapy
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