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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Voyager – a mission for life
Mark Williamson asks what keeps scientists motivated in the 35-year-old Voyager mission
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Starting from scratch
Mehdi Yazdanpanah describes how he turned $500 and one great idea from his PhD research into a successful small business
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Walking on water
Stephen Ornes reports on how pond skaters move across water
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Cornering the Higgs boson
Michael Riordan continues his tale of the hunt for the Higgs boson
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The academic pyramid
Margaret Harris investigates the scarcity of permanent academic posts for PhD-trained physicists
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Shocking hearts gently
Eberhard Bodenschatz describes a less-invasive approach to heart defibrillation
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My life on Mars
Ashley Dale recounts his experiences during a two-week stint at the Mars Desert Research Station, a facility in the Utah desert
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Credit where credit’s due?
Magdolna Hargittai gets to the bottom of the debate on whether female physicist Chien-Shiung Wu should have received a share of the 1957 Nobel prize
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Delving into extra dimensions
Henrik Melbéus and Tommy Ohlsson look at the mind-bending theories of extra dimensions
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