Jul 20 2011

Researchers Grow Tooth in Mouse Kidney

Tag: Environment,Humans,Laboratories,Life Science,Science,Scientists — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 8:04 pm
The technique could create replacement organs faster than previously tested methods

Jul 20 2011

‘Skinless’ Shuttle Also Soon to Retire

Tag: Air Travel,Electronics,Engineering,Engines,Laboratories,NASA,Rockets,Space Shuttle,Technology,Vehicles — Irene Klotz @ 1:30 pm
The shuttle names Columbia, Atlantis and Discovery may ring a bell. But ever hear of OV-95? Few have and now it, too, will be retired.

Jul 05 2011

Fermilab’s MINOS Experiment Also Sees Neutrino Quick-Change

Tag: Cosmology,Laboratories,Particle Physics,Particles — Jennifer Ouellette @ 5:14 am
Physicists continue to close in on the mystery of neutrino oscillation -- the process by which one type of neutrino morphs into another as it travels through space.

Jun 27 2011

Fire and Flood Threaten Research Center and Nuclear Plant

Tag: Blogs,Design,Floods,Government,Laboratories,Materials,Nuclear Science,Plants,Rivers,Seas,Tornadoes,Video,Wildfires,Wind — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 6:36 pm
In New Mexico, fire and smoke has shut down the Los Alamos National Lab, and in Nebraska, floodwaters are closing in on the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant.

Jun 11 2011

Tevatron’s DZero Sees No Evidence of New Particle

Tag: Laboratories,Particle Physics,Particles — Jennifer Ouellette @ 6:04 am
As excitement grows for a possible new particle discovery, a second Fermilab Tevatron experiment contradicts the new findings. So, who is in error?

Jun 10 2011

Two New Elements Join Periodic Table

Tag: Chemistry,Experiments,Laboratories,Nuclear Science — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 10:26 pm
But they don't yet have names. What would you call them?

Jun 05 2011

Fermilab’s ‘Bump Hunters’ See Hints of New Particle

Tag: Laboratories,Particle Physics,Particles,Physics,Standard Model — Jennifer Ouellette @ 10:16 pm
Physicists at Fermilab's Tevatron particle accelerator have detected the potential signal from an unpredicted new particle. Is this a sign of "new physics"? Or is it a dud?

May 16 2011

Youthful Ingenuity Honored at Intel Science Fair

Tag: Animals,Asteroids,Bacteria,Building,Ceremonies,Chemistry,Community,Devices,Disaster Scenarios,Earth,Engineering,Experiments,Family Members,Fear,Fish,Flies,Fruit,Hearing,High School,Inventions,Kids,Laboratories,Meteorites,Nobel Prize,Nuclear Science,Particles,Plants,Plastic,Recipes,Science,Scientists,Sight,Spiders,Technology,Transportation,Tumor,Yeast and Bread Machine — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 6:24 pm
Young scientists receive awards in international competition.

Apr 07 2011

What Has the Tevatron Really Discovered?

Tag: Laboratories,Large Hadron Collider,Particle Physics,Particles,Physics,Quantum Physics,Standard Model,String Theory — Ian O'Neill @ 8:48 pm
If you're a little hazy about the details of Wednesday's buzz surrounding the potential discovery of "new physics" in Fermilab's Tevatron particle accelerator, don't worry, you're not alone.

Mar 30 2011

Antimatter Gets Heavy

Tag: Cosmology,Laboratories,Particle Physics,Particles — Jennifer Ouellette @ 5:03 pm
It seems antimatter might have a bit of a weight problem these days. A U.S. particle accelerator has produced antimatter helium-4, an extremely rare -- and heavy -- particle.
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