By Edwin Cartlidge of Nature magazine The research on which this story is based has now been published in the New Journal of Physics . [More]
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By Edwin Cartlidge of Nature magazine The distribution of fallout from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has now been mapped by two independent teams. [More] Presented By: Grainger has power transmission covered.
Read More »2011 Hunting Season for Higgs Particle Ends at Large Hadron Collider
By Edwin Cartlidge of Nature magazine This year's hunt for the Higgs boson is drawing to a close. [More]
Read More »Plutonium Fuel Supplier Shuts Down in Wake of Fukushima Disaster
By Edwin Cartlidge of Nature magazine The Fukushima nuclear disaster, already casting a long shadow over the nuclear industry, has claimed another victim.
Read More »Electron Perfectly Round to One Part in a Million Billion, Experiment Finds
By Edwin Cartlidge of Nature magazine Now that's precision measurement: the electron is a perfect sphere, give or take barely one part in a million billion. The result comes from the latest in a long line of experiments to probe the shape of the fundamental particle that carries electrical charge. [More]
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