Star signs first light in cosmos
Simulations suggest that an enormous lone star was the first entity in the Universe
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Accident grounds neutrino lab
Japan's Super-Kamiokande experiment is dealt a crippling blow
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Old star caught in the act
Astronomers witness a fleeting stage of star death that may have started just a few years ago
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Quickening pulses probe plasma
Lasers show that complex `many-body' effects in matter take just femtoseconds to emerge
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Canaries sing simple harmonics
Basic physics explains the complex songs of birds
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Shrinking electronics charges ahead
Single-molecule transistors and nanowire circuits make their debut
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Fresh light shed on black holes
Glowing gas around a black hole gives astronomers new insights
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Rave review for Hawking’s new book
The Universe in a Nutshell is 'a delight to read'
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Radiation budget is called to account
Earlier this year a group of some 70 scientists spent an intense week in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado reviewing the current understanding of the radiation budget of the atmosphere....
Positrons go into detail
Over the last 50 years, a number of techniques have been developed to analyse surfaces, near-surface layers and interfaces. Each technique has its own peculiar characteristics, and offers a different ...
