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Iran's Brain Drain Problem
September 4, 2014
Scientists are leaving Iran in droves, in part to avoid the fate suffered by imprisoned physicist Omid Kokabee.
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Hunting for Dark Energy
September 3, 2014
New approaches seek to nail down dark energy and discover how it might be accelerating the universe’s growth.
Gray arrow Article: New Scientist
Gray arrow Abstract: Physical Review D

Lithium Lacking in Big Bang
September 2, 2014
Almost all lithium-6 was produced well after the Big Bang – something that current theories of nucleosynthesis cannot explain.
Gray arrow Article: Physics World
Gray arrow Abstract: Physical Review Letters

Tetraquark Questions
August 29, 2014
Newly discovered particles have incited a fierce debate about matter at the quantum scale.
Gray arrow Article: Quanta Magazine
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