Scientists at CERN are edging ever closer to calling the Higgs boson, i.e. the particle discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, the Higgs boson. While physicists said they discovered a particle which looked like the Higgs boson, they were weary of actually calling that, pending more analysis. Now though, ... [read more >>] There aren't that many things set in stone in science, but Absolute Zero, the lowest possible temperature at which atomic movement stops altogether was one of them. But you can thank quantum physics, the ultimate troll of the physics world, for ruining this as well. Scientists have been able to go bel... [read more >>] The Nobel Prize committee has announced the recipient of the second award of the year, for physics. The 2012 Nobel Prize awards started yesterday with the Physiology and Medicine prize. The physics prize was awarded to two scientists for quantum optics, the interaction between light and matter. French Serg... [read more >>] A group of investigators at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) announces the development of an acoustic levitator, a device that uses sound waves to levitate individual droplets of liquid.
The instrument holds great promise for improving drug development procedures,... [read more >>] Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) say that their preliminary tests of specially designed, magnetically imploded tubes called liners were successfully concluded recently. The goal the SNL team set for itself is to achieve scientific “break-even&... [read more >>] American and Chinese mathematicians propose a new unified theory on dark matter and dark energy, which changes some of the most basic tenets of Albert Einstein's field equations for gravity.
The most important hypothesis the study contains is that the law of energy and momentum conservation, as unders... [read more >>] American researchers announce the completion of a laser that is able to deliver a peak power of one quadrillion watts (one petawatt) every second. This is a world record in laser performances, and marks an important achievement for a new accelerator facility.
The instrument in question is the drive laser ... [read more >>] Officials with the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) announce that their installation recently produced the highest-power laser shot ever, as part of efforts to achieve nuclear fusion. The NIF was developed specifically for igniting a self-sustaining fusion reaction between hydrogen isotopes. During the... [read more >>] At a conference held earlier today (July 4), scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced that physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have found a new boson, which respects all the limitations and characteristics proposed for God's particle.
The discove... [read more >>] Engineers from the US National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) for EUV Science and Technology announce the development of a laser-like, coherent and directed light beam that contains photon wavelengths ranging from ultraviolet to X-rays.
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