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Apple is featuring an article on one of the physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider, who just so happens to be a huge Mac fan. According to Brian Cox, any physicist will tell you that the Mac is the way to go, especially if you need to run both new apps and old UNIX programs. According to the piece currently... |
28 December 2008
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A new study supported by NASA and the National Science Foundation has reached more thorough results related to the way solar storms affect the Earth's magnetic shields, making the old views inaccurate. Depending on the alignment with the Sun's magnetic field, our own develops two huge holes which allow larg... |
17 December 2008
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UK experts have finally completed a successful experiment that allowed them to demonstrate that the energy recovery process is possible on a particle accelerator. Three days ago, on December 13th, at 2 am, the Accelerators and Lasers In Combined Experiments (ALICE)' linear accelerator transported for the first t... |
16 December 2008
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The current largely adopted view on dark matter implies that it's mostly made of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). Although these are theoretical massive particles that scarcely interact with regular matter, making them very hard to detect, a huge effort has been made to discover them, on a global sc... |
15 December 2008
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A massive project involving the building process of the world's greatest neutrino telescope is currently under development far to the southern pole, in Antarctica. A bold group of experts from the University of Delaware are facing the blistering cold deep underneath the snowy surface in an attempt to have the de... |
10 December 2008
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In the past few months, the Large Hadron Collider slowly disappeared from public attention and kept an increasingly lower profile. However, just when not much was expected to be heard about it – since the last statements did not have anything interesting programmed LHC-wise until next June – something act... |
1 December 2008
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The memorable event that takes place on the Earth's poles, called aurora, is not only restricted to our planet. The Sun and the magnetic fields of other planets allow for it to occur in the different atmospheres of the latter as well, although it may look nothing like what we're accustomed to. In fact, they... |
24 November 2008
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A Belgian scientist has demonstrated in a recent paper that the decade-long dream of physicists all over the world might prove to be unprovable. This refers to the grand unification (or unified) theory, also known as GUT, devised in the late '70s. It implies that the electromagnetic, weak nuclear, and strong nuc... |
20 November 2008
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A sample load of high-energy electrons collected from above Antarctica may provide hints of the existence of the mysterious dark matter or, as the theory goes, of an enigmatic celestial object, such as a pulsar or a microquasar that lurks in the astronomical vicinity of our planet's pole. After performing a seri... |
20 November 2008
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The fact that the Large Hadron Collider is shut down until next year doesn't mean that discoveries in the field of quantum particle physics aren't deployed anymore. As such, researchers operating the old Tevatron device from the American Fermilab laboratory in Batavia (Illinois) stumbled upon a strange new ... |
4 November 2008
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NASA scientists have not yet forgotten the nasty surprise that the Sun had in store for us 5 years ago during this time of the year. As we’re passing this half-decade milestone, they recall how one of the most atrocious solar storms ever recorded – and definitely the most powerful one of modern times &nd... |
4 November 2008
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According to NASA scientists, every 8 minutes – about the time it takes one to read this article – there's a peculiar and still unexplained event going on way overhead. The magnetosphere – the protective magnetic bubble that envelops the planet, Earth's equivalent of the heliosphere &ndash... |
3 November 2008
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The analytical technique of mass spectrometry allows the identification of the chemical composition of a sample or of a compound based on the mass-to-charge ratio of its charged particles (ions). This ratio of the particles is observed via passing them through the electric and magnetic fields of a mass spectrom... |
31 October 2008
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The issue that involves the symmetry breaking physics field is among the most important concerns in the world of physics, as demonstrated by the recent winning of a Nobel prize, since it could provide a much better understanding of the way the universe was created a few seconds after the Big Bang, as well as how... |
27 October 2008
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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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Two days ago, the small probe that represents the accomplishment of the efforts of Southwest Research Institute experts, was successfully launched into space on a Pegasus rocket carried by an L-1011 jet plane at high altitude above the Pacific. The probe was carried by the Pegasus for about 130 miles onto its orbit ... |
21 October 2008
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A major step in the actual discovery of dark matter, or at least a honing of the discovery process, was performed by the PICASSO project taking place at SNOLAB, in Canada. Scientists came upon a method to refine the search by finding that, under certain conditions, dark matter's WIMPs yield different acoustic si... |
16 October 2008
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The IBEX probe will be launched on Sunday with the declared aim of reaching past the Earth's magnetic field in order to examine the interactions that take place at the boundaries of the heliosphere.Despite having protruded far more distant corners of the universe, we still have little knowledge of the phenomena ... |
14 October 2008
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As it was somewhat expected, given this year's debates over various quantum particles topics, but mainly those related to CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded yesterday for groundbreaking discoveries in the field of quantum physics. Thus, it was handed to some researchers t... |
8 October 2008
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Planet climate engineering is a topic that draws more and more attention as of late, since the environment seems to be marching on an abrupt downward road, and none of the highly-praised latest eco-repairing solutions seems to actually change anything for the better. A lot of pollution combatants have emerged on the... |
3 October 2008
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A recent study indicates that there are stars in the proximity of the Milky Way's core that feed on dark matter, thus prolonging their lifespan with more than a billion years. Finding them would possibly help understanding what dark matter really is and how exactly it functions.Although responsible for 22% of th... |
3 October 2008
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A small number of scientists defines space dust as the observable portion of dark matter. Space dust is comprised of small particles (about 0.1 mm) which reflect light on a very large scale. This is what can be seen of dark matter, not observable directly, but its hypothetical effects have been noticed.Space dust, al... |
3 October 2008
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Data provided by Ulysses spacecraft indicates that the Sun's hot-particle wind is less powerful and emanates less heat than at any previously recorded date since humankind began its space race in the 1950s.During a more tranquil period of the Sun's activity, the Ulysses spacecraft has been able to measure i... |
24 September 2008
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Only a week after it had been started, LHC, world's biggest particle smasher, had to be stopped on Wednesday because of an electrical fault, as CERN officially announces. The recent failures of the LHC staff haven't even been forgotten yet, and a new one comes to increase the world's doubts relat... |
19 September 2008
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This hypothetical form of energy is supposed to fill all the space and it continuously pushes its elements apart, increasing the universe's expansion rate. It is one of the most important things that LHC scientists are eager to prove. The standard model of cosmology claims that the universe is comprised 74%... |
11 September 2008
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As the time remaining until the first true LHC experiment passes at a snail’s pace, the physicists in charge with the whole process are threatened to be killed by people who, in turn, fear for their lives. There's little common knowledge regarding the LHC and physics in general. People generally thin... |
8 September 2008
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According to a new study carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, the mass ratio between the electron and the proton remained constant over the past 6 billion years. This comes to contradict the findings of a study conducted nearly two years ago which suggested that the masses of the two particles... |
14 July 2008
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Nvidia announced that it has almost completed the conversion of the Ageia physics engine to CUDA. The graphics expert even managed to run a particle demo that is somewhat similar to the fire test Intel ran on a Nehalem test shuttle earlier this month.Nvidia took Intel's offensive seriously and is currently close... |
14 April 2008
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A decade has passed since physicists postulated the existence of dark matter and dark energy in order to complement the missing matter in the universe; however, its constituents are still eluding detection. Aside the weakly interacting neutrino particles described in the Standard Model of the universe, scientists are... |
4 March 2008
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Strange, but true nonetheless. The Standard Model represents a theory that incorporates all the characteristics of the material which makes up the universe we live in. There is only one problem though, out of the four elementary forces exerted between interacting matter, the Standard Model only describes three of the... |
3 March 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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While cooled to absolute zero a substance may freeze to form crystals into a multitude of configurations. However, identifying the spatial arrangements is prohibited by the high number of possible combinations, thus the understanding of a series of key material properties is virtually impossible. Furthermore, if you ... |
18 January 2008
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String Theory supporters argue that the universe we live in has eleven dimensions, out of which three spacial dimensions and a temporal one, which define the void and the space-time environment we experience daily. Some of you might say 'Well, the real world we live in has only four dimensions'. That may b... |
7 January 2008
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The power of gravity leads to the formation of galaxies, stars and black holes but at the same time is like a chain binding us to the ground. Despite its infinite spread, gravity is the least known and weakest of all forces found in the universe. Moreover, researchers can't assess it in the lab as easily as they... |
13 August 2007
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After the Queensland study linking laser printer particles to potential health issues, the response of the main laser printer manufacturer attacked, HP, came as a no big surprise. The Queensland University study tested 62 laser printers made by various companies like Canon, HP and Toshiba and found that no less than ... |
3 August 2007
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According to a study that measured the amount of particles released by laser printers into offices and homes, nearly all of the units deemed unhealthy were made and sold by HP. The study, which was published in the American Chemical Society's Environmental Science & Technology journal, presents the results of te... |
2 August 2007
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It seems that office workers face a new health threat after the RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) and this new threat comes from office laser printers that emit during operation large amounts of microscopic particles into the surrounding air. According to an Australian research team led by Professor Lidia Morawska from ... |
31 July 2007
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One of the basic ideas in physics is that one can't take credit for discovering something if the experimental procedure that led to the discovery cannot be repeated under controlled conditions, again and again. Basically, this is considered a fluke.Many so-called discoveries have actually been shown to be nothi... |
2 July 2007
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Research scientists and physicists are making the final preparations for the world's largest physics experiment, which will produce an impressive amount of data. Universities across the United States and the world are hoping the CERN's Large Hadron Collider will determine the nature of matter.Computer scie... |
18 May 2007
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Manipulating and controlling single photons interacting in a cavity can shed some light on fundamental aspects of quantum physics.This is exactly what a sub-field of quantum optics called "cavity quantum electrodynamics" is trying to do, in an experiment made by professor Serge Haroche from the Collge de France and t... |
11 May 2007
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Mechanoluminescence is the process of light generation through mechanical forces and it usually happens in crystalline structures, such as sugar or quartz. It can be produced through ultrasound, caused by stress that results in the formation of fractures or simply by rubbing, grinding or cleaving a solid.Sir Franci... |
9 May 2007
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Anyons are exotic particles that exist in two-dimensional quantum liquids. A quantum liquid (fluid) is a state of matter where, under very high pressures and low temperatures, electrons condense, thus theoretically allowing electrical current to flow forever with a complete absence of voltage.They remain liquid at a... |
7 May 2007
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Starting with the first half of the 20th century it has been apparent that the Universe is made up of more than just the things we can see. It is now widely accepted that a large fraction of the Universe consists of "dark matter" in the form of a new type of fundamental particle. In astrophysics and cosmology, dark ... |
25 April 2007
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For 80 years, the scientists have supported Niels Bohr's opinions stating that in any experiment, light shows only one aspect at a time, either a wave or a particle. "Einstein was deeply troubled by that principle, since he could not accept that any external measurement would prevent light to reveal its full dua... |
13 March 2007
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A new particle, dubbed particle X, may mediate the rare decay of a Sigma-plus hyperon (a sub-atomic particle) and appears to have close affiliations with a light Higgs boson encountered in one supersymmetric model, a clear proof for physics beyond the standard model (SM). The researchers from the National Taiwan Univ... |
12 March 2007
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