Professor Sir Tom Kibble, whose work helped pave the way for discovering the Higgs boson particle in 2012, has passed away.
The hunt for Dark Matter taking place at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN has taken a great leap forward thanks to new detection technology developed by a team from the UK.
UK researchers have discovered a new way of observing designer nanomaterials - materials that are 400 times smaller than a human hair.
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