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Space time mapped out: Teams at NASA are exploring ways to warp the universe to enable faster than light travel. Pictured is a model of how ...

(Click on Image to Enlarge) The Next Holy Grail For Physics: Finding The Anti-World -- Spiegel Online The apparent discovery of the Higgs bo...

Photo: A disk full of silicon sensors that sits as an endcap on ATLAS, one of the LHC experiments searching for the Higgs boson. Peter Gint...

Chicago's Tevatron particle accelerator: Analyzing data from some 500 trillion sub-atomic particle collisions designed to emulate condit...

'Faster-Than-Light' Particles May Have Been Even Speedier -- CBC Subatomic particles clocked at speeds exceeding the speed of light ...

We've learned so much from science, bet there's plenty we still don't understand 5 Of The Biggest Unsolved Mysteries In Physics ...

MINOS Experiment Far Detector NuMI/Fermilab Fermilab Will Double-Check CERN's Revolutionary Faster-Than-Light Claim -- Popular Science S...

The CDF detector, about the size of a three-story house, weighs about 6,000 tons. It recrods the "debris" emerging from each high-...

Electrons orbiting an atom Photo: ALAMY Electrons Are Almost Perfectly Round, Scientists Discover -- The Telegraph Electrons may be the most...

Finding mysterious positron sources in the Milky Way (Image: Gerhard Hüdepohl/ESO) From New Scientist: Atoms called positronium inexplicably...

From io9: Muons, neutrinos, supersymmetric partners, the infamous Higgs boson - with so many different subatomic particles flying about, it...

From New Scientist: Set a beam of electrons twisting, and the resulting vortex could be just the tool to manipulate atoms. "This is a f...

Discover Interview: The Math Behind the Physics Behind the Universe -- Discover Magazine Shing-Tung Yau explains how he discovered the hidde...

From The BBC: The physicists' ultimate dream is the search for a "theory of everything", a unifying explanation that can make ...

From The Economist: RICHARD FEYNMAN, Nobel laureate and physicist extraordinaire, called it a “magic number” and its value “one of the great...

Droplet of a gold-silicon liquid alloy on a silicon (111) surface. Pentagonal clusters formed at the interface exhibit a denser structure co...

From The New York Times: Scientists exploring the deep sea have discovered a distinctive kind of breaking wave. The finding reveals the pres...

This image of a full-energy collision between gold ions shows the paths taken by thousands of subatomic particles produced during the impact...

Inside the scintillator at Borexino. (Credit: Borexino Collaboration) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Mar. 29, 2010) — Using a delicate i...