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Martin Rees introduces the Large Hadron Collider at Cern, the most powerful experiment ever to probe the greatest of questions in physics: what is the universe made of and how did it all begin?

Star Wars may well be the smash hit of 1977, and certainly is the best movie of the year. Star Wars is a combination of Flash Gordon, The Wizard of Oz, the Errol Flynn swashbucklers of the '30s and '40s and almost every western ever screened.

Next April, NASA astronomers are going to glimpse a secret layer of the sun.

It's time to end once and for all the rampant speculation. Sony doesn't want any info to leak but I'm told that both star Tobey Maguire and director Sam Raimi will be returning to make Zodiac screenwriter Jamie Vanderbilt's script of Spider-Man 4...

On the night of June 2, 1932, the world's first superhero was born not on the mythical planet of Krypton but from a little-known tragedy on the streets of Cleveland. What happened next has exploded some of the longest-held beliefs about the origins...

Doctor Who may have conquered the small screen, but could it be set to conquer the big screen too?

a The Safety Assessment Group writes, “Nature has already conducted the equivalent of about a hundred thousand LHC experimental programmes on Earth – and the planet still exists.”

Physicists of the DZero experiment at the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega-sub-b. The particle contains two strange quarks and a bottom quark. It is an exotic re