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Dark matter and exoplanet discoveries win Nobel Physics Prize
Science

Dark matter and exoplanet discoveries win Nobel Physics Prize

Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize for…
CERN condemns ‘offensive’ address on women and science
Science

CERN condemns ‘offensive’ address on women and science

  Europe’s physics lab CERN on Monday disavowed a lecture by an invited scientist who claimed physics was “built by…
Stephen Hawking: ‘His laboratory was the universe’
World

Stephen Hawking: ‘His laboratory was the universe’

Everyone knew of Stephen Hawking’s cosmic brilliance, but few could comprehend it. Not even top-notch astronomers. Hawking, who died at…
Stephen Hawking, best-known physicist of his time, has died
World

Stephen Hawking, best-known physicist of his time, has died

Stephen Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, died early Wednesday,…
Physics exam not to be canceled despite leak: Education Ministry
Egypt

Physics exam not to be canceled despite leak: Education Ministry

The head of the Education Ministry’s public education sector, Reda Hegazy, has said that Sunday's public high school physics exam…
Japanese, Canadian neutrino scientists win Nobel Prize for Physics
Science

Japanese, Canadian neutrino scientists win Nobel Prize for Physics

Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur McDonald of Canada won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for the discovery…
Higgs boson: What’s all the fuss about?
Environment

Higgs boson: What’s all the fuss about?

What do President Mohamed Morsy’s brain, the Constituent Assembly and Cairo traffic all have in common? None of them, alas,…
The accelerating universe and us
Opinion

The accelerating universe and us

Our universe is not only expanding; it is also doing so at an accelerating rate. For this remarkable empirical discovery…
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