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'Simply extraordinary': Swiss cosmologists win Nobel Prize in Physics

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 14:35:29 +0200

Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, along with Canadian-American James Peebles, have won the Nobel Physics Prize for their work in cosmology.

Geneva physicists set 'photon transport' record

Mon, 22 Sep 2014 00:24:00 +0200

Physicists in Switzerland say they have succeeded in teleporting the quantum state of a photon to a crystal, in which information transited from light to matter, over a record distance of 25 kilometres.

World Wide Web celebrates 20th birthday

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:37:00 +0200

The world's first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored for today's internet browsers as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of free access to the World Wide Web, organizers said in Geneva on Tuesday.

Scientists reveal 'God particle' find

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 11:16:00 +0200

After a quest spanning nearly half a century, physicists on Wednesday said they had found a new sub-atomic particle consistent with the Higgs boson which is believed to confer mass.

Einstein was right: CERN scientists

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:40:00 +0200

Scientists on Friday said that an experiment which challenged Einstein's theory on the speed of light had been flawed and that sub-atomic particles -- like everything else -- are indeed bound by the
universe's speed limit.

Particles still faster than light in experiment re-run

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:51:00 +0100

A fiercely contested experiment that appears to show the accepted speed limit of the Universe can be broken has yielded the same results in a re-run, European physicists said on Friday.

Scientists revisit 'faster-than-light' experiment

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:51:00 +0200

Scientists who threw down the gauntlet to physics by reporting particles that broke the Universe's speed limit said on Friday they were taking a fresh look at their contested experiment.