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A graphic on the scale of the universe: Size matters
Apr 27th 2012, 11:13 from Graphic detail (5)
Cosmic-ray tomography: Musing on muons
Apr 4th 2012, 3:00 from Print edition
How to detect smuggled uranium and plutonium using muons(5)
Neutrinos: Adagio, OPERA
Mar 22nd 2012, 4:10 from Print edition
An experiment clocks neutrinos at their expected clip—ie, not faster than light(0)
Neutrinos: Adagio, OPERA
Mar 16th 2012, 2:53 from Babbage
An experiment clocks neutrinos at their expected clip—ie, not faster than light(9)
Neutrino communications: ET, phone home
Mar 15th 2012, 4:00 from Print edition
The world’s first neutrino-messaging service(6)
Matter and antimatter: Flavoursome research
Mar 15th 2012, 4:00 from Print edition
Physicists are closing in on how matter differs from antimatter(15)
Practical particle physics: Ringing the neutrinophone
Mar 14th 2012, 5:28 from Babbage
The world's first neutrino-messaging service(10)
Antimatter: Violating the rules
Mar 7th 2012, 4:41 from Print edition
Are matter and antimatter truly opposites?(18)
The search for the Higgs: More tantalising hints, but no banana
Mar 7th 2012, 1:06 from Babbage
More evidence pointing to the existence of the Higgs boson(25)
Quantum physics: House of dreams
Mar 1st 2012, 4:00 from Print edition
Scientists race to explain why the Higgs boson matters(11)
Why is the universe made of matter?: Not up to Standard
Mar 1st 2012, 11:46 from Babbage
New results from a defunct experiment shed light on why matter came to dominate the universe(33)
Neutrinos: Testing times
Feb 24th 2012, 5:17 from Babbage
The team that gave the world un-Einsteinian neutrinos is trying to poke holes in its own experiment(60)
Babbage awards: More wackier
Jan 2nd 2012, 10:25 from Babbage
We celebrate the oddball side of science by recognising the most weirdly wonderful research to grace The Economist's pages and website in 2011(14)
In praise of particle physics: Higgs ahoy!
Dec 14th 2011, 9:04 from Print edition
The elusive boson has probably been found. That is a triumph for the predictive power of physics(50)
God's particle, aka Higgs boson: A glimpse of Higgs for Big Science's big year...
Dec 14th 2011, 6:26 from Cassandra
Even those most esoteric branches of physics, quantum mechanics and relativity, have found their way into our everyday lives.(7)
The Higgs boson: Fantasy turned reality
Dec 14th 2011, 2:27 from Print edition
Those searching for the Higgs boson may at last have cornered their quarry(179)
The Higgs boson and the Large Hadron Collider: A hint of Higgs
Dec 14th 2011, 6:49 from Babbage
CERN announces sightings, but not proof, of possible Higgs boson signatures in the LHC, and our correspondents take a look inside the world's largest microscope(5)
Particle physics: Higgs on the horizon
Dec 13th 2011, 6:16 from Babbage
The most tantalising hints yet of particle physics' most elusive quarry(14)
Neutrinos: Not so fast...
Nov 21st 2011, 9:19 from Babbage
A rival experiment examines OPERA's neutrinos and thinks they must be Einsteinian, after all(21)
Neutrinos: Still faster than light
Nov 18th 2011, 2:32 from Babbage
The team that gave the world un-Einsteinian neutrinos has just seen some more(78)
Particle physics: Violating old rules
Nov 15th 2011, 6:22 from Babbage
At last, tantalising hints of new physics from the Large Hadron Collider(48)
Science: Big Science’s big year
Nov 8th 2011, 5:46 from Print edition
Global science will make global headlines in 2012, predicts Rolf Heuer, director-general of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN)(1)
Fundamental physics: Big bang
Nov 2nd 2011, 6:33 from Print edition
Popular physics has enjoyed a new-found regard. Now comes a brave attempt to inject mathematics into an otherwise fashionable subject(43)
Rolf-Dieter Heuer on CERN: The future of fundamental research
Sep 30th 2011, 9:21 from Babbage
The director-general of Europe's particle-physics laboratory on why not finding the Higgs boson would be as important as finding it(6)
The future of Fermilab: A sunset before a sunrise
Sep 30th 2011, 7:00 from Babbage
Fermilab reaches the end of an era. A new one beckons(25)