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New type of retinal prosthesis could better restore sight to blind, Stanford study says
Using tiny solar-panel-like cells surgically placed underneath the retina, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a system that may someday restore sight to people who have lost vision because of certain types of degenerative eye diseases. (2012-05-14)

Researchers from the University of Zurich discover new particle at CERN
Physicists from the University of Zurich have discovered a previously unknown particle composed of three quarks in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. (2012-04-30)

South Pole Telescope Provides New Insights Into Dark Energy and Neutrinos
Analysis of data from the National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT) in Antarctica provides new support for the most widely accepted explanation of dark energy, the source of the mysterious force that is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe. (2012-04-03)

Fermi Observations of Dwarf Galaxies Provide New Insights on Dark Matter
There's more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars around galaxies and in the motions of clusters of galaxies. (2012-04-03)

Supercomputing the difference between matter and antimatter
An international collaboration of scientists has reported a landmark calculation of the decay process of a kaon into two pions, using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's fastest supercomputers. (2012-03-30)

Molecular graphene heralds new era of 'designer electrons'
Researchers from Stanford University and the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the first-ever system of "designer electrons" - exotic variants of ordinary electrons with tunable properties that may ultimately lead to new types of materials and devices. (2012-03-15)

New discovery is key to understanding neutrino transformations
A new discovery provides a crucial key to understanding how neutrinos - ghostly particles with multiple personalities - change identity and may help shed light on why matter exists in the universe. (2012-03-12)

Missing: Electron antineutrinos; Reward: Understanding of matter-antimatter imbalance
An international particle physics collaboration today announced its first results toward answering a longstanding question - how the elusive particles called neutrinos can appear to vanish as they travel through space. (2012-03-08)

World's best measurement of W boson mass points to Higgs mass and tests Standard Model
The world's most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson, one of nature's elementary particles, has been achieved by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. (2012-03-05)

Bilayer graphene works as an insulator
A research team led by physicists at the University of California, Riverside has identified a property of "bilayer graphene" (BLG) that the researchers say is analogous to finding the Higgs boson in particle physics. (2012-01-25)