A new European communications satellite was successfully launched into orbit on Friday, at 12:24 pm EDT (1624 GMT) from the Russian-operated Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Space reports. The mission lasted more than nine hours, and the device was positioned on a high-altitude geosynchronous transfer orbit. A 191-... |
4 April 2009
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Perhaps one of the most famous equations in the world, in all scientific fields, is Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, E=mc2. This means that the energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square speed of light. Recently, an international team whose members come from Germany, France and Hungary, led by L... |
22 November 2008
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10:36 am, today. The main computer screen in one of the LHC surveillance rooms displays 2 flashing dots, indicating that the last test has been successfully completed. Humankind still exists. Perhaps the most believable story about the apocalypse is the most recent one, linked to the power-up of the LHC (which w... |
10 September 2008
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The construction of the 12 observation lines of the first underwater neutrino telescope, Antares, is now complete and for more than a month now, two of the observation lines have been operational, continuously looking for any sign of neutrino particles coming from out of space. Antares is part of the European Antares... |
5 July 2008
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Although on Earth helium gas is relatively rare and mostly extracted from natural gas deposits, in the universe helium is the second most abundant element after hydrogen. The U.S. Department of Energy Argonne National Laboratory have been successful recently in creating a helium-8 isotope, isolate it and measure its ... |
29 January 2008
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The beginning of the 20th century found mankind right in the middle of a struggle to learn even more about the universe we live in. Einstein published his theory of relativity, resolving a long debate in the field of physics, while Hans Bethe from the Cornell University published for the first time an approximated mo... |
25 January 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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Usually, two-quark particles such as pions are absorbed into the atomic nucleus right after they are produced, but in some cases they can escape, and are ejected out of the system. Their low energy makes the detection close to impossible, thus they are called color transparent particles. A new study believes otherwis... |
21 January 2008
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Although the observable Universe is mostly void, despite the general belief most of that void is filled with either energy or matter, except for certain strange structures called textures which seem to be having none of the two. High or low energy elementary particles are emitted in all directions by galaxies, quasar... |
9 November 2007
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The Antares telescope is designed to detect quantum particles, called neutrinos. However, during tests, the primary detector of the telescope seemed to be able to distinguish between marine species, and is now adapted for marine life and sea health observation.When completed, the installation will be composed of 12 ... |
29 October 2007
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Scientists have come up with a new tantalizing hypothesis about a new state of matter and space-time. "Twenty five years ago we thought we understood everything about how matter changes phase. Then along came an experiment that opened up a whole new world", said Xiao-Gang Wen at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol... |
15 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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