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(FILES) -- A file photo taken on July 19, 2013 shows a worker riding his bicycle in a tunnel of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) Large Hadron Collider (LHC), during maintenance works in Meyrin, near Geneva. Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain won the Nobel Physics Prize on October 8, 2013 for the discovery of the 'God particle', the Higgs Boson that explains why mass exists, the jury said. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI

Cracks in a model

The startling LHC “beauty” experiment discovery hints at a tantalising new physics that is a significant modification of the Standard Model of particl

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Rediscovering Pluto

Initial images and data from the NASA spacecraft New Horizons’ recent rendezvous with Pluto point to a surprisingly craterless mosaic of relatively an

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An undated etching of Galileo Galilei.-AP

Heretic to hero

IN March 1610, a book containing fewer than 100 pages caused such a stir that its author was placed under house arrest for the rest of his life. The b

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German connection

THE two decades of 1930s and 1940s constituted one of the darkest periods in human history. Nazism was on the ascendancy in Germany, and even Albert E

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Sir C.V. Raman (second left) with other Nobel Laureates of 1930, (back row) M. Svedberg, M. Euller, M. Dahlein, Hans Fischer, (front row) Sir Clair Lewis, S. Lagerlof, Karl Landsteiner and M. Barany, after the presentation of the prizes in Stockholm.-THE HINDU PHOTO LIBRARY

Lasting effect

The 75th anniversary of the Nobel Prize of Sir C.V. Raman, the first and only Indian citizen to win a Nobel in science, is being celebrated this year.

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