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Tomasz Skwarnicki, a physicist from Syracuse University, is among the scientists interested in the search for the Higgs boson. This boson is the elementary particle that confers mass to all the other particles. According to the standard model, there can be only one such particle, but recent calculations resulted in t... |
21 October 2008
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Researchers of the Fermilab announced recently that they have been able to produce and observe one of the rarest diboson processes, the ZZ pair, during proton-antiproton collisions inside the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Tevatron. The discovery bears significant scientific relevance, since the... |
31 July 2008
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Brown dwarf stars are the coldest class of failed stars in the universe, some of which weighing as little as 3 percent of the mass of the Sun, insufficient to start nuclear fusion reactions in their core, thus being unable to generate their own internal energy. Just like with gas giants, observations regarding the ma... |
3 June 2008
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With the help of the Very Large Telescope on top of the Paranal mountain, European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere astronomers have solved possibly one of the biggest mysteries related to the existence of the WOH G64 star, located in the near Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. It appears... |
28 May 2008
10:12 GMT |
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Our galaxy contains about 1 trillion solar masses, says a recent estimation regarding the weight of the Milky Way. All previous estimates showed that the galaxy has a mass ranging between 750 billion to over 2 trillion times that of our Sun, the latter being slightly favored and probably closest to the true weight. H... |
28 May 2008
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If you're still wondering whether or not the 'giant ball of fire' in the sky has special characteristics that enabled the appearance and evolution of life on Earth, you should probably know that the Sun is about as special as several billion other stars in the visible universe. At least that's wh... |
22 May 2008
07:41 GMT |
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"Higgs Boson" or the "God Particle", was predicted almost four decades ago by British physicist Peter Higgs as a mean to explain how fundamental particles gain mass in the space-time continuum. Higgs believes that it will be found by CERNs Large Hadron Collider, expected to become operational by the end of this year.... |
8 April 2008
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Quantum physicists think they know the answer. Probabilistic calculations reveal than the data provided by previous experiments has been miscalculated and that the Higgs boson has in fact been discovered. Weird! The Higgs boson is the only particle predicted by the Standard Model that hasn't been discovered yet.... |
24 January 2008
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Yet another step in the completion of the Large Hadron Collider was taken yesterday morning, as the final element of the Compact Muon Solenoid was lowered nearly 100 meters bellow ground. After more than eight years of work at the world's most powerful particle accelerator, scientists hope that they will be able... |
23 January 2008
08:27 GMT |
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ClearSMS is a recently released web-based SMS service that allows you to send bulk SMS messages to anyone. The service is developed and maintained by Amyntor Limited, an English company from London that has offices in US and Canada too. With ClearSMS you can easily send mass text messages with important notices to em... |
7 August 2007
09:21 GMT |
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At least five mass extinctions may have occurred in the history of our planet, meaning that in a relatively short period of time, a large number of species have disappeared. Probably the most famous one took place 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period, when the dinosaur domination reached its end.... |
28 July 2007
07:01 GMT |
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Last month, a team of physicists made a surprising announcement, in which they claim that they might have found an exotic particle, called the Higgs boson, or the "God" particle, as it plays a key role in explaining the origins of the mass of other elementary particles, in particular the difference between the massl... |
26 July 2007
09:48 GMT |
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The heat wave that struck the US and Europe has made NASA keep a close eye on the sun, in an effort to predict future events, since these weather extremes are happening despite the fact that solar activity is at minimum.For now, the Sun is almost spotless, marking the solar minimum, one of two major characteristics ... |
25 July 2007
10:40 GMT |
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One of the most interesting and recently used methods of counterfeiting US dollars is to bleach the ink off the $5 bills and to print them with as $100 bills. The Treasury has only recently considered redesigning those bills to prevent the sudden "multiplication" of Ben Franklin.A new technique has now been created ... |
19 July 2007
10:18 GMT |
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You can no longer lie. Scientists can tell now if your marijuana came from Mexico or grew in your apartment. A team at Alaska Stable Isotope Facility has developed an isotope-based method that can tell which region a marijuana sample comes from and if it grew indoors or out. In a few years, the researchers could make... |
23 June 2007
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Many people heard the phrase "particle physics" even though some of them don't know much about what it is or what it does. Now, a physicist at Harvard University is proposing a new theory, which he called the "unparticle physics."In a recently published paper, physicist Howard Georgi, a highly appreciated scien... |
11 June 2007
06:42 GMT |
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A recently developed method has successfully been applied for weighing a black hole named Cygnus X-1, located in the constellation Cygnus (the Swan) approximately 10 000 light years away in our Galaxy, the Milky Way.A black hole is an object with a gravitational field so powerful that a region of space becomes cut o... |
17 May 2007
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