A South African astrophysicist is part of a team seeking to drag ancient cosmic secrets out of the polar skies.
The latest big thing in science will also permit analysis of how much dark energy drove the inflation of the universe.
In a major discovery for understanding the origins of the universe, US scientists say they have detected echoes of the Big Bang 14-billion years ago.
There are many ideas about what happened in that moment before everything exploded, but which one is right?
As Stephen Hawking turns 70 this week, scientists are baffled how he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling disease.
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/ 13 December 2011
Scientists have found signs of the Higgs boson, an elementary sub-atomic particle thought to have played a vital role in the creation of the universe.
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/ 28 January 2011
Physicists at Wits University now have access to the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments used to study "elementary particles".
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/ 5 December 2008
Repairing the giant particle collider built to simulate the ”Big Bang” could cost up to -million.
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/ 6 September 2008
Beneath the rural tranquillity of the Geneva countryside, scientists are getting ready for a trip into the unknown.