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Nasa’s Curiosity Mars rover set for high risk landing
By Jonathan Amos One of the most daring space missions ever undertaken is nearing Mars. In the next few hours Nasa will attempt to land its one-tonne Curiosity rover on the Red Planet to study the possibility that this world may once have hosted microbial life. The vehicle is packed with scientific instruments, including a laser that […]
The beauty of the Higgs boson
August 5, 2012
Jeff Forshaw The dust is beginning to settle – a new particle has been discovered using the Large Hadron Collider. Discovering new particles of nature is not an everyday occurrence and we are reasonably entitled to proclaim that this is the arrival of the Higgs. We aren’t certain, though: more careful examination of the particle’s […]
August 5, 2012
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