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An in-depth survey of the sky, conducted using a massive, underground particle detector at the South Pole, has revealed that the production of cosmic rays is a more mysterious phenomenon than experts had first predicted. The theories currently trying to explain where these rays originate may all be wrong.
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19 April 2012
04:30 GMT |
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New results obtained from observations conducted with the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT) appear to confirm the nature of dark energy, the fact that Albert Einstein's cosmological constant is real, and also get closer to establishing the exact masses of all types of neutrinos.
These data are all the more s... |
2 April 2012
03:14 GMT |
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The next flagship particle physics project the United States was supposed to conduct has just been canceled. The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE), which was supposed to the built at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, is no longer affordable.
Billed at around $1.5 billi... |
23 March 2012
12:03 GMT |
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Physicists with a multinational collaboration announce that they were recently able to measure the last unknown mixing angle of elementary particles called neutrinos with extreme precision. The work may open a new way of analyzing particle physics.
As their names imply, neutrinos are electrically-neutral elementary ... |
8 March 2012
06:01 GMT |
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In late 2011, the world of particle physics was taken by storm by the results of a research team based in Italy, which announced that it had discovered faster-than-light neutrinos. A recent investigation has finally revealed what led the team to this erroneous result.
The discovery and subsequent announcement were ... |
23 February 2012
03:22 GMT |
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Discovering neutrino oscillations was one of the most significant discoveries made in particle physics over the past few years. Now, a team of physicists proposes that scientists use this data to conduct studies of Earth's density at various locations.
Experts currently accept the existence of three types, or f... |
2 February 2012
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A scientific experiment buried deep underground is currently conducting the most intense and rigorous investigation of solar neutrinos ever. The work is conducted in order to determine how these neutral elementary particles are influencing both our planet and ourselves.
Neutrinos have neutral electrical charges, an... |
29 November 2011
07:51 GMT |
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Heeding advice coming in their direction from a wide variety of sources, researchers at the Italian lab that proposed the existence of faster-than-light neutrinos recreated their experiments, only to discover the same results over and over again.
Since their paper was first published, on September 23, the internati... |
21 November 2011
06:56 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, researchers at a lab in Italy took the physics world by storm, when they proposed the existence of neutrinos capable of traveling faster than the speed of light. Now, scientists from the same lab – but with a different experiment – show the results to be false. The initial measurements ... |
21 November 2011
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Scientists with the Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (OPERA) at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (GSNL), in Italy, a few weeks ago proposed the existence of neutrinos traveling faster than light. A researcher now provides a possible explanation for the readings.
The data the OPERA team submit... |
14 October 2011
10:39 GMT |
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On September 22, researchers from the Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (OPERA) neutrino experiment, in Italy, proposed that neutrinos can travel faster than light, and provided evidence to support their claims. Now, physicists take a hard look at the numbers.
Based at the Gran Sasso National L... |
3 October 2011
06:53 GMT |
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Italian physicists have just submitted a new research paper for peer review, saying that they have uncovered evidence suggesting that elementary particles called neutrinos travel faster than photons.
The implications of their findings are mind-boggling, as they deny the main principle in Albert Einstein's the... |
23 September 2011
05:45 GMT |
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Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL) astrophysicists propose in a new study that dark matter trapped at the very core of the Sun is responsible for cooling down the star's inner furnace. This idea is bound to trigger heated debates in the international scientific community.
Dr Stephen West's team ... |
8 September 2011
10:58 GMT |
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Physicists with the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment are currently engaged in an all-out effort to characterize and understand the last mixing angle of neutrinos. Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are leading the work.Mixing angles are math... |
16 August 2011
05:44 GMT |
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Researchers working on an advanced physics experiment may have confirmed some of the first signs of CP violation. This could lead to developing a plausible explanation as to why there is more matter in the Universe than antimatter, if equal amounts of the two were produced during the Big Bang.The CP violation is a pa... |
17 June 2011
07:58 GMT |
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A series of observations conducted on the core of a neutron star nearby reveals the existence of a new state of matter that experts cannot reproduce in labs despite our current technological advancements. Inside this particular, collapsed neutron star, astrophysicists discovered a chilling process taking place at a v... |
27 April 2011
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Investigators have recently taken a closer look at a background layer of subatomic particles, that was found some time ago to permeate the entire Universe. Similar to the cosmic microwave background (CMB), this collection of particles was also produced in the earliest moments of the Cosmos. This subatomic signature s... |
29 March 2011
08:59 GMT |
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According to the latest readings collected by the most sensitive detector of its type ever constructed, Earth does not feature a nuclear reactor at its core. The issue as to whether it did or not was heatedly debated by geologists and geophysicists, but for now their disagreements have been settled.In the new investi... |
14 February 2011
03:40 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, experts propose that we attempt to use neutrinos in our quests to establish contact with potential extraterrestrial civilizations that may exist elsewhere in the Universe. Until now, all messages that we sent into space were delivered via radio waves. We were accustomed to using this type o... |
11 January 2011
09:24 GMT |
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Astronomers have determined that the entire Universe is permeated by what could best be described as an ancient signature at a subatomic level, which may yield additional details about how everything came into being. Some of the particles in this signature apparently have the ability to exist in a large number of pla... |
5 January 2011
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Officials at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) announce that the impressively large IceCube Neutrino Observatory has been completed today, December 18, as the last components were buried beneath Antarctic ices.
INO is arguably the most sensitive telescope... |
18 December 2010
06:04 GMT |
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Homestake Mine, the deepest such structure in the western hemisphere, was until 200 2 the home of a massive gold exploitation, that produced billions of dollars for North America. Now, it is being re-purposed as one of the most advanced dark matter detectors in the world. Locate in Black Hills, that large mine is now... |
10 December 2010
03:28 GMT |
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Institute for Corpuscular Physics (IFIC) researchers along with other European groups have focused on the effects of the existence of dark matter in the Sun, and according to their calculations, particles of dark matter could transfer energy from the core to the exterior of the Sun, which could influence the amount o... |
1 December 2010
11:00 GMT |
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Detecting and analyzing elementary particles called neutrinos is an extremely complex and difficult task, and physicists need all the help they can get accomplishing it. Recently, they recruited none other than the Moon to aid them in their research. Regions of distant space are suspected to be generating large amoun... |
1 December 2010
04:19 GMT |
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A group of scientists has recently proposed a new method of testing whether rogue nations suspected of being involved in constructing and operating nuclear reactors are actually building such structures. In the approach, which is non-invasive, so to speak, antineutrino detectors would be installed off the coast of su... |
23 November 2010
09:37 GMT |
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A newly-signed contract designated experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) as the main operators of an impressive neutrino telescope, which is buried deep underneath Antarctic ices, near the South Pole. The group will be managing the impressive IceCube Neutrino Observatory (INO) under a $34.5 million con... |
23 November 2010
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For more than 20 years, a “rogue” theory in particle physics had it that a new type of elementary particle existed in the Standard Model, the current approach to explaining the basic particles around us. But, after all these years, it would now appear that evidence to confirm the existence of this particl... |
2 November 2010
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Experts have been working on the IceCube project for years now, and they say that the experience has helped them reshape the way they deal with everyday problems. The nature of the project does not allow for anything else, they add. IceCube is the name given to a project that calls for the construction of an advanced... |
27 October 2010
03:08 GMT |
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Physicists around the world are now hoping that a new generation of neutrino telescopes being built at the South Pole may help them determine which way antimatter will fall when released.That is to say, particle physicists are still unsure as to whether releasing a hypothetical piece of antimatter above Earth's ... |
21 September 2010
08:33 GMT |
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Southern Arkansas University professor Abdel Bachri and his students are now in their second year when they visit the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkley Lab). During the first summer they spent at the facility, the Arkansas team constructed a portable cosmic ray detect... |
3 August 2010
03:35 GMT |
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The IceCube telescope at the South Pole is still under construction but it is already delivering valuable information. The latest news is something it was not even supposed to see: cosmic rays anisotropy. Once the scientists' amazement passed, they started working on better ways to understand this phenomenon and... |
29 July 2010
03:23 GMT |
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A group of investigators in Italy announced yesterday, May 31, that they were able to identify tau particles sent through the ground for the first time ever. The elementary particles were encased in a muon neutrino beam, which was sent from a CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) facility some 730 kilomet... |
1 June 2010
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Using telescope data spanning an entire decade, researchers have recently compiled a new dataset on how the renowned supernova remnant Cassiopeia A's neutron star is evolving over time. The celestial body is the youngest known such formation to date, and so peering into the interior of this super-dense star is s... |
15 April 2010
16:01 GMT |
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Scientists involved in the Borexino experiment managed to recently identify the first traces of geo-neutrinos in their detector, a facility buried under 1.5 kilometers of mountain. Located in Italy, underneath the Gran Sasso mountain, near l'Aquila, the 80-scientist endeavor managed to identify tell-tale signs o... |
16 March 2010
19:01 GMT |
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Antarctica is host to a very powerful observatory, a neutrino telescope buried deep under its ices. The instrument's main function is to detect the elusive elementary particles, but experts found that it could also provide them with an in-depth look at the temperature variations taking place in the ozone layer, ... |
11 January 2010
16:01 GMT |
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After seeing the much hyped movie 2012, which began running in theaters around the world a few weeks ago, scientists started questioning the validity of the claims the movie makes. Though it was meant to play at the craze that appears to be taking over the world, which has it that, two years from now, the planet as w... |
1 December 2009
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Scientists in the Asian nation are excited about the fire-up of their latest synchotron, a particle accelerator featuring a 30-GeV Main Ring. The J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex) is managed by a multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration, and has over the weekend made its first neutrino observations.... |
28 November 2009
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In a dramatic face-off between environmentalists and physicists, the construction of the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) under the Nilgiri hills at Singara was not approved. Authorities determined that the endangered elephants which have set up their habitat in the area are simply too valuable to allow for the... |
25 November 2009
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Nuclear-powered submarines can operate underwater, at a depth of around 300 meters (roughly 1,000 feet), for weeks and months on end. While this is of enormous strategic importance, it does come with a drawback, namely the fact that the subs need to come close to the surface in order to communicate with the outside w... |
5 October 2009
10:43 GMT |
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The India-based Neutrino Observatory is a proposed particle-physics facility, to be constructed in a 1,300-meter (4,265-foot) -deep cave under Ino Peak, near Masinagudi, Tamil Nadu, in India. The project is one of the largest experiments in the country, and it is especially designed to be able to measure the properti... |
23 September 2009
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While the Big Bang theory is still the most agreed-upon idea on how the Universe formed, the final faith of the Cosmos is still a subject of hot debate among astronomers and physicists. While some say that it will expand to a point where it will become a dark, empty void, others claim that it will eventually contract... |
17 August 2009
03:29 GMT |
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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI for short, has been surveying transmissions that would hopefully turn out be a sign from ET for the last couple of decades or so, although nobody seems to be calling. Now scientists believe that this may have something to do with the fact that we're only look... |
22 May 2008
04:38 GMT |
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During nuclear fission reactions nuclear power plants produce a by-product element known as plutonium, which accumulates on the uranium fuel rods. Plutonium cannot occur naturally on Earth and is extremely important for the fabrication of nuclear bombs because it is used in the detonation mechanism initiating the nuc... |
9 May 2008
10:10 GMT |
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The Holy Bible describes an event in which Jesus Christ turns water into wine. Personally I would really like to see that one. However it has nothing to do with reality, as we all know water does not spontaneously turn into wine, or vice versa. This principle should also apply to all the elementary particles predicte... |
30 November 2007
03:53 GMT |
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This instrument will be used to detect some of nature's most mysterious subatomic particles, to create a picture of the Earth's dense iron core. It consists of a giant telescope which will be buried in the ice at the South Pole, and is designed to detect neutrinos, that present so little interaction with th... |
24 November 2007
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This is a review of the top ten strangest things in space that scientists still study and try to formulate, theories that open our imagination to new horizons and new technological possibilities. 1. Antimatter - all the things we know and see are made out of matter and energy. For a long time it was thought that ato... |
8 November 2007
10:48 GMT |
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