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Matter is a lush tapestry, woven from a complex assortment of threads. Diverse subatomic particles weave together to fabricate the universe we inhabit. But a century ago, people believed that matter ...

At the end of a lecture on astronomy, describing how the planets orbit the Sun, a little old lady at the back of the room stood up and said: "What you've told us is all rubbish. The world is really a ...

A group of particle physicists is likely to recommend that the U.S. government fund dark matter research at a higher level than it is doing now. Research on dark matter has fascinating implications ...

From a fortnight’s press flurry of hazy ideas and inaccurate terms concerning something that had happened to the atom at Cambridge, England, this much could be clarified last week: Dr. J. D. Cockroft, ...