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Second Presidential Debate Tonight Comes as Obama and McCain Step Up Attacks, McCain Down in Polls; Iran Says Aircraft That Violated Air Space Was Actually Hungarian Aide Plane; Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded ...

Two Japanese and an American have won the 2008 Nobel Prize for discoveries in the world of subatomic physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday.

American Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago won half of the prize for the discovery of a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics. Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan shared the other half of the prize for discovering the origin of the broken symmetry that predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.

Special Report: Third Manned Space Mission LANZHOU, Oct. 7 -- Chinese scientists on Monday unsealed a box of solid lubricant samples that were aboard the Shenzhou-7 spacecraft.

A US space probe successfully flew by Mercury on Monday to photograph the solar system's smallest planet, in the second of three planned passes, the US space agency NASA said.

Scientists who have pursued dark matter, hunted for undiscovered planets and advanced nanotechnology were being touted Monday as candidates for the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics.

The dawn of a unified theory of biology may finally be upon us. Will there ever be a theoretical biology that is predictive? I just finished reading a biography of Albert Einstein by Walter Isaacson and ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Germany's Harald zur Hausen and French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine today for discovering the AIDS virus and viruses ...

Published October 5, 2008 at 6:25 p.m. Updated October 5, 2008 at 6:25 p.m. The parents of a Japanese physics phenom who killed herself at an institution near the University of Colorado two years ago are suing ...

THE Large Hadron Collider. When it works, it will kill us all. But what if you stick your head inside it? What happens? So it was in 1978 that when the proton beam entered Anatoli Bugorski's skull it measured ...

The world's largest computing grid is launched on Friday, ready to tackle mankind's biggest data challenge from the earth's most powerful accelerator, according to local media reports.

Some curious facts about the Nobel Prizes, which will be announced starting next week in Stockholm and Oslo: _A man's world: Less than 5 percent of all Nobel laureates are women.

Main Category: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience Biology / Biochemistry MRI / PET / Ultrasound Article Date: 02 Oct 2008 Providing a glimpse into the infinitesimal, ...

Scientists walk in the CERN LHC computing grid centre in Geneva. This centre is one of the 140 data processing centres, located in 33 countries, taking part in the grid processing project.

A senior Russian official has warned that Georgia's involvement in a probable US war against Iran will pose a threat to Moscow's national security, PressTV reported.

Among the crushing throng of physics enthusiasts who gathered this week for a lecture by Sir Roger Penrose, who is to the University of Oxford what Stephen Hawking is to Cambridge, the very mention of the Large ...

BBC, Times, Register, etc: UK Science budget news - physics is okay . Seed bank definitely not.

An authoritative review into the management of physics in the UK has concluded that overall things are in good order, but the panel led by Professor Bill Wakeham also identified "weaknesses" in the present ...

Human rights activists from China and Russia are considered front-runners to win the Nobel Peace Prize next week, while bettors are putting their money on an Italian, a Syrian or an Israeli for the literature ...

The technological advancements surrounding the Large Hadron Collider - the new particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland - are not just about the physics.

The Swedish Academy in Stockholm says it will announce the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature on October 9. The secretive academy is always the last of the Nobel Prize institutions to set a date for the ...