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A key riddle in cosmology may be answered by the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson--now a leading contender for the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics on October 8. [More] --

Geneva, 6 October 2013. In a paper published today in the journal Nature (://dx.doi.org/, DOI number 10.1038/nature12663), the CLOUD experiment at CERN* reports a major advance towards solving a long-standing enigma in c...

The average human lives 28,835 days. We all know exactly what a day feels like, how long it takes, and how variable its passing can feel. But 28,835 days is just a number--unless you count it out in jelly beans.

(University of Exeter) Scientists have discovered huge ice channels beneath a floating ice shelf in Antarctica. At 250 meters high, the channels are almost as tall as the Eiffel tower and stretch hundreds of kilometers a...

(European College of Neuropsychopharmacology) New findings presented at the 26th ECNP Congress suggest that a common enzymatic pathway modulates addictive behavior through genetic and epigenetic regulation, and could lea...

(Forschungszentrum Juelich) It sounds unlikely: a washing machine recycles used detergent in order to use it again for the next load of dirty washing. But this is just what happens during the degradation of pollutants in...