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:: 09 September, 2009
Astronomers today declared the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope a fully rejuvenated observatory ready for a new decade of exploration, with the...
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:: 07 September, 2009
Astronomers at the University of Bonn have clarified the connection between black holes at the centre of galaxy clusters and surrounding gas, which...
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:: 19 August, 2009
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:: 17 November, 2008
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:: 13 August, 2008
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:: 15 July, 2008
An international team has finished building the ANTARES telescope, which will search for elusive particles called neutrinos from its base 2.5...
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:: 10 July, 2008
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:: 10 June, 2008
A new way of bending X-ray beams developed by MIT researchers could lead to greatly improved space telescopes, as well new tools for biology and...
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:: 06 May, 2008
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:: 29 April, 2008
A group of Italian and Chinese physicists, led by Rita Bernabei University of Rome, announced that it had found particles of dark matter that, in...
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:: 28 April, 2008
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:: 27 April, 2008
A scientist involved in one of the first experiments being planned for the underground lab at Homestake says the goal is to discover dark matter...
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:: 17 April, 2008
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:: 01 April, 2008
Something is pulling the universe apart. What is it, and where will it take us from here? Scientists at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological...
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:: 22 March, 2008
A new particle-smashing experiment has uncovered surprising evidence that nature treats matter and antimatter differently.
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:: 19 March, 2008
On 6 April 2008, CERN will open its doors to the public, offering a unique chance to visit its newest and largest particle accelerator, the Large...
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:: 15 March, 2008
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:: 13 March, 2008
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:: 11 March, 2008
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