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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The most comprehensive world-wide comparison of educational standards the Third International Mathematics and Science Study found that, out of 21 countries, America ranked 16th in general science, 19th in maths and last in physics.

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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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