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By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine A hint of the Higgs boson , the missing piece in the standard model of particle physics, has been found in data collected by the Tevatron, the now-shuttered U.S.

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine When Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S.

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine At the heart of the weirdness for which the field of quantum mechanics is famous is the wavefunction, a powerful but mysterious entity that is used to determine the probabilities that quantum particles will have certain properties. [More]

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine The claim that neutrinos can travel faster than light has been given a knock by an independent experiment. On 17 October, the Imaging Cosmic and Rare Underground Signals (ICARUS) collaboration submitted a paper to the preprint server arXiv.org, in which it offered a rebuttal of claims to have clocked subatomic particles called neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light. [More]

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine When it comes to discovering nuclear isotopes, retired physicist Gottfried M

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine Shortly after 2 p.m. [More]

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine Microbiologist David Lewis knew he might upset the biosolids industry with his research, which suggested that the spreading of sewage sludge on land could make people sick. [More]

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine The US Treasury has warned that if the US debt ceiling, the amount that the country may legally borrow, is not raised by 2 August, the country will not legally be able to pay all its obligations. [More]

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine As cheat sheets go, it is a long one. [More]

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine As Earth's biggest "ear" on the Universe, the giant 305-meter radio dish at Arecibo , Puerto Rico, has played a part in groundbreaking discoveries, searches for alien civilizations and the occasional Holly

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine An epic victory over daunting challenges, or a costly project that should never have flown? After nearly half a century of work and US$750 million spent, Gravity Probe B, one of NASA's longest-running mission programs, has finally achieved some scientific closure. [More]

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine Neutrinos have long perplexed physicists with their uncanny ability to evade detection, with as many as two-thirds of the ghostly particles apparently going missing en route from the Sun to Earth. [More]