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When even the leader of the CMS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider – who is in charge of searching for the Higgs boson – says that the name God's particle is inappropriate, he reflects a widely-accepted point of view among physicists – that the name needs to be changed.
Known popularly a... |
15 December 2011
10:59 GMT |
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator may have discovered the Higgs boson, voices online say. The speculation was prompted by the fact that the European Organization for Nuclear Research [CERN] said that an important announcement about the particle is to be made next week.
The Higgs boson is an unconf... |
9 December 2011
10:45 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
04:52 GMT |
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Physicists in the United States were left without access to one of the most significant installations a few days ago, when the Tevatron particle accelerator at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), in Batavia, Illinois, was closed down on September 30, 2011.
After serving the cause of modern physic... |
3 October 2011
02:52 GMT |
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Scientists with the Atomic Spectroscopy And Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons (ASACUSA) say that they managed to obtain the most accurate measurements on the weight of dark matter. These results refine existing figures down to an uncertainty level of on part per billion. The goal of scientists working with this instr... |
29 July 2011
09:19 GMT |
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At a conference being held in Grenoble, France, experts presented a set of papers which appear to indicate that an announcement on the discovery of the Higgs boson is imminent. There is however no way to tell for sure, so only time will tell, analysts believe.The optimism sweeping through scientists comes from the La... |
26 July 2011
03:31 GMT |
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The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announces that all the discoveries made at its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator will be presented during a series of major summer conferences, that began today, July 21, in Grenoble, France.A press conference to sum up all the findings will be held... |
21 July 2011
10:25 GMT |
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Our understanding of how black holes work from a physics perspective holds that these objects should be capable of accelerating particles at much higher energies than equipment built here on Earth ever could. Now, investigators are looking into methods of making this a reality. The international collaboration of rese... |
14 July 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Physicists have recently taken a great deal of interest in tiny-mass black holes, constructs that are many orders of magnitude smaller than their supermassive counterparts inhabiting the cores of large galaxies.
Studies focused on microscopic black holes hope to tease out more data about how the structures form a... |
9 July 2011
05:24 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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Officials with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announce that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator – has broken new records on Monday. On May 23, the instrument collided more protons than any other accelerator. Over the past... |
24 May 2011
07:37 GMT |
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According to a memo that leaked on the Internet, it could be that one of the four particle detectors installed on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) managed to discover the Higgs boson.This particle is the reason why the 27-kilometer-long accelerator was built on the French-Swiss border, near Geneva. The Standard Model ... |
23 April 2011
05:47 GMT |
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Physicists have now proposed a new theory seeking to determine how the early Universe may have looked like, shortly after the Big Bang. They say that it may have taken on the appearance of a single line of pure energy, rather than that of a sphere or a bell.
The new view comes as a breath of fresh air for experts... |
23 April 2011
04:27 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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An international team of scientists working in Europe managed to trap and store antimatter atoms for the first time, thus opening up a new branch of physics, and making it available for research. The group conducts its investigations at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) headquarters, near Geneva, ... |
18 November 2010
03:33 GMT |
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Physicists in the United States believe that they may have discovered the most compelling proof that dark matter indeed exists, deep within the core of our own galaxy, the Milky Way.The team believes that it is the first group to demonstrate that the elusive substance actually exists. Thus far, experts have only assu... |
26 October 2010
10:09 GMT |
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While most of the scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) expected to further the boundaries of physics as they did so, very few expected this to happen this fast. It would appear that a never-before-seen phenomenon has been observed at the accelerator. According to reports, it would seem that operators... |
22 September 2010
10:46 GMT |
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It would appear that measuring the nature quantum entanglement provides data which may be interpreted as a measure for human free will as well, believe two physicists.The new study was carried out by a team of physicists at the University of Geneva, in Switzerland, and the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom... |
25 August 2010
05:32 GMT |
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Fermilab experts believe they may have discovered why normal matter prevailed in its struggle against antimatter, back when the Universe was in its earliest days.The existing Standard Model of particle physics is extremely well suited for explaining most of the phenomena and interactions surrounding us, but it's... |
17 August 2010
09:38 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom, have recently received a new grant, for developing a web portal that would enable scientists working in the developing world to calculate landslide risks and the answer to other such complex riddles. The inspiration for this project came from the comput... |
16 August 2010
09:35 GMT |
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Technological advancements that took place over the past few decades have made the world a very dangerous place to live in. Nuclear missiles are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to methods that humankind can employ to destroy itself. Global warming and chemical weapons are also high on the list, as are other... |
9 August 2010
09:14 GMT |
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More than three decades ago, experts showed in a series of calculations that it's theoretically possible for particle accelerators to produce a lot more energy from their experiments than they consume running them. The idea was again brought to life recently, as experts investigated an old idea. The concept prop... |
9 August 2010
06:33 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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A number of scientists from four universities in the United States recently announced plans to start researching methods how to use light-activated nanoshells as basic components for innovative 2D and 3D structures. The nanoshells themselves were produced by experts at the Rice University, and they could make up the ... |
28 May 2010
03:35 GMT |
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While the most basic theories of physics help explain the world around us through rules, they also have the unsettling implication that the Universe, and naturally everything in it, should not exist. As we are aware, it does. This poses a quintessential dilemma to physicists trying to make sense of it all. At least i... |
24 May 2010
10:53 GMT |
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A group of scientists has recently managed to obtain groundbreaking new data on the electronic structure of graphene. The material is a single-atom-thick carbon compound, which exhibits very peculiar physical and chemical properties. Discovered only 5 years ago at the University of Manchester, in the UK, graphene has... |
21 May 2010
06:45 GMT |
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Physicists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), working together with Russian colleagues from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, were able until now to discover five of the heaviest chemicals known to man, elements 113, 114, 115, 116 and 118... |
7 April 2010
05:03 GMT |
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It may be that a team of physicists operating the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), in New York, may have broken a rule of physics in one of their experiments. If validated, the assumption would carry considerable implications for some of the most fundamental theories underlying the way our understanding of sci... |
30 March 2010
11:03 GMT |
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Officials at CERN, the organization in charge of operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), announced recently that they had decided on a new start date for science programs at the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. The new date was set for Tuesday, March 30. At that time, officials say that... |
23 March 2010
11:08 GMT |
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According to a new investigation presented at a recent scientific conference, it would appear that a class of very little-studied materials known as topological insulators may hold the key for physicists gaining new insight into exotic particles that have thus far only been hypothesized to exist. They have never been... |
17 March 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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Though the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is operational at this point, engineers working on the international project are painfully aware that the largest physics experiment in the world is more than a year behind schedule. It is also operating at a fraction of the energy it is capable of, analysts add, and the current... |
24 February 2010
02:53 GMT |
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Officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announce that the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will be brought back online next week. The largest physics experiment in the world was shut down for a few weeks during the holidays, and it is now abl... |
19 February 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Engineers operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest particle accelerator in the world, have recently decided on the schedule they will follow for the upcoming years. They say that they will continue to run the massive scientific experiment at a low power level through 2011, after which time they will shu... |
3 February 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Glasgow believe that the Bc meson, one of the newest types of hypothesized elementary particles, may have already been unknowingly produced in particle accelerators such as the Tevatron, in Illinois. Facilities operated by CERN, including the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and others, ma... |
26 January 2010
08:31 GMT |
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Over the last few years, numerous controversies have sprung up around massive particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Most often, critics fear that these giant machines will produce particle collisions that are so energetic that they could give birth to very small black holes. Physicists say th... |
23 January 2010
06:07 GMT |
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When the W and Z bosons were proven to be the mediators of the weak nuclear force, the Standard Model of particle physics received one of the most definitive pieces of evidence in its favor. At the time, all the jigsaws to the puzzle appeared to be falling into place, and physicists were more than happy with the meas... |
21 December 2009
09:41 GMT |
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Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the group that manages the Large Hadron Collider, announced that the first proton beams had already been injected in the massive particle accelerator, and that they had completed thousands of spins in its tunnels. The 27-kilometer-long facility saw ... |
21 November 2009
02:47 GMT |
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Next to the International Space Station (ISS), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is arguably the most complex and amazing human scientific project ever constructed. Its main goal is to recreate the conditions that existed just a few fractions of a second after the beginning of the Universe, immediately after the event ... |
15 November 2009
05:30 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
04:08 GMT |
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UltraFast Innovations GmbH is a joint initiative from German researchers at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), in Munich, and the Max Planck Society (MPS), which aims at providing research communities with dedicated optical systems, capable of keeping track of things as small as electrons moving from one ... |
17 September 2009
04:15 GMT |
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It was only last night that I finished reading Victor J. Stenger's new book, “Quantum Gods: Creation, Chaos and the Search for Cosmic Consciousness,” and, boy, I can tell you for sure that my understanding of quantum physics was a bit off before. In fact, it was not necessarily wrong, as it was featu... |
25 July 2009
03:03 GMT |
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Hollywood movies have always had the talent of inspiring panic where there was usually nothing to fear, and the latest productions are no different, what with the threat of the Vatican being destroyed by antimatter generated at the Large Hadron Collider and all that. Needless to say, the script is pure fantasy, but p... |
29 May 2009
05:52 GMT |
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The Large Hadron Collider is the largest scientific experiment ever built by human hands and, as such, is the structure scientists expect most from. Among the possible outcomes of LHC experiments, the most important ones include the discovery of the Higgs boson (God's particle), the creation of anti-matter, the ... |
29 April 2009
09:14 GMT |
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The Large Hadron Collider is currently the largest particle accelerator in the world, built under the Swiss-Franc border for the staggering price of 6 billion Swiss francs ($5.2 billion). It features a 27 kilometer (17 miles)-long circular tunnel, which is used to accelerate specific beams of particles at speeds clos... |
26 January 2009
03:01 GMT |
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