Madu, from King Edward's School (for boys) had taken chemistry, maths, physics and general studies, and his brother biology, chemistry, maths and general studies.

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Fortunately for the future of physics in general, and the LHC in particular, a Higgs of 125GeV is light enough for some of these particles to be found by the machine near Geneva.

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In fact, the vortices were observed breaking themselves apart in a particular way, which will provide insights that could assist our understanding of turbulence, plasma physics, and even the general behaviour of fluids.

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The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has been enhanced in a number of ways, principally to allow for easier use of the GPU for general purpose computing (GPGPU) such as physics simulation.

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The structure remains the third largest steerable telescope in the world and plays a key role in global research on pulsating stars, testing extreme physics theories including Einstein's general theory of relativity.

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"There is no sector of society that has not been transformed by the invention, in a physics laboratory, of the Web, " said Rolf Heuer, CERN's director-general.

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In particle physics, sound-bite explanations are much harder: wave-particle duality, quantum mechanics, general relativity and string theory make good mathematical sense, or so I am told, but they generally defy translation into English.

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