May 19 2011

NASA Installs Cosmic Ray Hunter on Space Station

Tag: Astronomy,Astrophysics,Dark Energy,Dark Matter,NASA,Particles,Physics,Space Shuttle,Space Station,Space Technology — Irene Klotz @ 7:34 pm
A new tool to look at the universe debuted Thursday, with the installation of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, nicknamed AMS, on the International Space Station.

May 17 2011

God Particle Mystery May Soon Be Solved

Tag: Big Bang,Large Hadron Collider,Particles,Universe — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 4:45 pm
The search for the Higgs Boson could be over by the end of 2012.

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 25 2011

Overexcited Rumors of LHC Higgs Boson Discovery

Tag: Large Hadron Collider,Particle Physics,Particles,Quantum Physics,Skepticism,Standard Model,String Theory — Ian O'Neill @ 4:49 am
When on the cutting edge of physics, try not to pay too much attention to internal memos.

Apr 22 2011

LHC Smashes ‘Beam Intensity’ World Record

Tag: Big Bang,Dark Energy,Dark Matter,Large Hadron Collider,Particle Physics,Particles — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 7:18 pm
CERN's powerful accelerator has pushed particle physics into a new, powerful era.

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

Beams of Electricity Zap Fires

Tag: Electricity,Experiments,Fire Safety,Particles — Jessica Marshall @ 6:52 pm
But don't trade in the firefighting hose for a electrical wand just yet.

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.

Mar 29 2011

Higgs Can Run, But It Can’t Hide

Tag: Cosmology,Large Hadron Collider,Particle Physics,Particles — Jennifer Ouellette @ 8:21 am
The Higgs boson is a wily, elusive little particle, but scientists at both Fermilab and CERN are hot on its heels.

Mar 16 2011

Could Higgs Particle be a Time-Traveling Assassin?

Tag: Large Hadron Collider,Particle Physics,Particles,Quantum Physics,String Theory,Time Travel — Ian O'Neill @ 9:07 pm
Is there another type of Higgs particle that can travel through time? Could it be used for evil?
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