Fundamental Physics
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Weighty matter: A physicist explains what the change in the definition of the kilogram really means
The international prototype kilogram keeps changing weight so scientists have come up with a new way to calculate.
Kevin Pimbblet, The Conversation
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What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists
What is your secret scientific insight – something you suspect is true, even if you can’t prove it?
Sabine Hossenfelder
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Watch: Here’s how the universe may be preparing to commit suicide
A terrifying theory is, fortunately, still just that: a theory.
Scroll Staff
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‘Supporter of BJP met me’: Surat candidates on the various reasons they withdrew from the election
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Microcontrollers in EVMs, VVPATs do not recognise party and candidate, observes Supreme Court
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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India
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CAA is a letdown, but Bengali Hindus in Assam are unlikely to ditch BJP
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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Large Hadron Collider sees tantalising hints of a new particle that could revolutionise physics
Researchers working on the LHC have been struggling to find new particles lately. But the latest results suggest things may be about to change.
Harry Cliff, The Conversation
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Number-crunching Higgs boson: meet the world's largest distributed computer grid
The 'supercomputer' that processes LHC's data is a networked grid that spans the entire planet.
Tom Whyntie, The Conversation