The LHC might finally have found some new physics – from the charm quark sector. There is an observation of a significant amount of CP violation in this charm quark sector for the first time ever!

The IUCN declared the Western Black Rhino officially extinct after a recent assessment of several rhinoceros species. Despite conservation efforts, The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reports that 25% of the world’s mammals are at risk of extinction.

Simulations show that during the early evolution of the Solar System, there might have been a fifth giant planet that simply got ejected. This was due to the ‘Jumping Jupiter’ scenario.

The Double Chooz experiment has detected the disappearance of neutrinos and this has led them to measure the mixing angle between the electron and tau type of neutrinos.

NASA’s Deep Space Network has captured the first image of the large asteroid as it passes Earth. There will be more images to follow up.

The unnamed elements have finally got names! Copernicus and co. get on the Periodic Table

Google honors the great British astronomer Edmund Halley with a nice doodle. We all know his 76 year period comet, but what did he have to do with Stonehenge?

The first sauropod fossil was discovered in antarctica.

Google honours the brave spirit of Madame Marie Curie with a doodle. Madame, we salute you!

The standard kilogram bar is changing mass. Yes, it might not affect your grocery shopping, but the physics labs are going to be hit by this ‘minute’ change. Here’s looking at a redefinition.

A Japanese supercomputer has just smashed all sane processing speed records, even its own! This is the story of the K-computer, a machine that lives up to its own name!

Fermi has discovered the youngest of all millisecond pulsars, that is surprisingly young. This poses a challenge to our understanding of pulsars and their dynamics.

The world’s first vaccine against malaria passes a major human clinical trial! The success rate is encouraging. This is a HUGE breakthrough in the fight against malaria.

The laws of physics might not be the same all throughout the Universe, finds a team of researchers. The value of the fine-structure constant (alpha = 1/137) might vary across the breadth of the Universe. Startling?

MIT and Harvard students have accepted the challenge thrown by IBM’s supercomputer Watson, most famous for its Jeopardy! triumph. The battlefield is a business trivia competition.