‘It is imperative that young people in Africa are motivated to learn physics and be part of big science projects’
Fundamentalist Christians are embracing fringe movements that marry biblical prophecy with mainstream conspiracy
The SKA telescope being built in South Africa is a huge honour for its scientific community, but will it benefit our developing economy?
Britain’s Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium have won the Nobel Prize for physics for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle.
A year since the discovery of a subatomic particle set the science world aflutter, evidence is mounting it may be the elusive Higgs boson.
The world’s first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of the web.
Stephen Hawking, world-famous cosmologist, and the team behind the discovery of the ‘God particle’, have won a $3-million science price each.
Thousands of scientists contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson, and among them were some of South Africa’s brightest minds.
Physicists say they have found a new subatomic particle consistent with the "God particle" Higgs boson, which is believed to confer mass.
A discovery that a sub-atomic particle seemed to move faster than the speed of light has scientists rethinking one of the foundations of physics.
The world’s top atom-smashers have found tantalising hints that the long-sought Higgs boson particle truly exists, with proof "likely by late 2012".
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/ 19 January 2011
Young science enthusiasts who want to follow in the footsteps of Albert Einstein may now test their skills in a global online science competition.
God’s mind was behind scientific theories such as the Big Bang, and Christians should reject the idea that the universe came into being by accident.
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/ 30 November 2009
The ”Big Bang” experiment at Cern scored a world record on Monday by accelerating beams to the highest energy ever achieved in a particle collider.
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/ 21 September 2008
The world’s largest atom smasher — which was launched earlier this month — has been damaged twice and will be out of commission for two months.
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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.