LATEST HEADLINES
If you want to be president, hire geeks not pundits
THIS WEEK: 10:25 15 November 2012 | 4 comments
A new breed of voting forecasters won't replace pundits but elections of the future could be won by the party with the best stats
Higgs boson continues to be maddeningly well-behaved
15:38 14 November 2012 | 5 comments
The first update since the particle's discovery in July shows it behaving exactly as predicted – giving no clues about how to explain things like dark matter
Orbiting moon gives chilling clue to black hole heat
18:10 13 November 2012 | 1 comment
A small partner circling a black hole would make the hole wobble and reduce its temperature
Time to think beyond the Large Hadron Collider
EDITORIAL: 09:00 13 November 2012 | 14 comments
To truly understand the Higgs we will need yet another massive particle accelerator – physicists are starting to dream, and now's a good time to start
Rare particle's decay confounds hunt for new physics
16:58 12 November 2012
The rate at which rare Bs mesons decay skewers some leading candidates for a new theory of particles and forces
Tiny engine runs on single hydrogen molecules
IN BRIEF: 15:51 12 November 2012
The random movements of individual hydrogen molecules have powered a vibrating springboard, mimicking molecular machines in nature
Particle headache: Why the Higgs could spell disaster
COVER STORY: 13:36 12 November 2012 | 11 comments
If the particle discovered at CERN this July is all we think it is, there are good reasons to want it to be something else
It moves! Lab-made blob can crawl
16:15 08 November 2012 | 1 comment
Droplets of a new lab-made gel can propel themselves and may help untangle how swarms of living things create order from chaos
Mathematical proof reveals magic of Ramanujan's genius
THIS WEEK: 08:00 08 November 2012
A complex new proof that the genius mathematician seemed to grasp intuitively may teach us about black holes
Theory of everything says universe is a transformer
16:27 06 November 2012 | 22 comments
Oxford visionary David Deutsch has posted a glimpse of his long-awaited theory for why the universe is just so – possibly spawning a new branch of physics
GEOMETRY
Wrinkled doughnut solves geometrical mystery
A shape has finally been visualised that had evaded mathematicians since the 1950s, including John Nash
GEOLOGY
Neutrinos: messengers from the underworld
The elusive particles could reveal Earth's origins and inner workings – if only we can catch enough of them, says Anil Ananthaswamy
