What is a boson and why is the Higgs shaped boson important.

In the summer of 2009, I was finishing the first—and toughest—year of my doctorate. To help me get through it, while I brewed chemicals in test tubes during the day, I was also planning a crazy experiment to cheat sleep. As any good scientist would, I referred to past studies, recorded data, and discussed notes with some of my colleagues. Although the sample size was just one—and, obviously, biased—I was going to end up learning...

The restart of experiments at CERN's Large Hardron Collider could mark the start of a new era of discovery or a big disappointment.

The bizarre nature of reality as laid out by quantum theory has survived another test, with scientists performing a famous experiment and proving that reality does not exist until it is measured. Physicists have conducted John Wheeler's delayed-choice thought experiment, which involves a moving object that is given the choice to act like a particle or a wave. The group reversed Wheeler's original experiment, and used helium atoms scattered by light.

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For the first time, physicists have achieved interference between two separate atoms: when sent towards the opposite sides of a semi-transparent mirror, the two atoms always emerge together. This type of experiment, which was carried out with photons around thirty years ago, had so far been impossible to perform with matter, due to the extreme difficulty of creating and manipulating pairs of indistinguishable atoms.

The Large Hadron Collider is reborn — on Easter weekend, of course. After shutting it down for two years in February 2013, the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator is up and running again. That doesn't mean that it's going at full power though, says Paul Collier, head of beams at CERN. Getting it to the acceleration needed to collect collision data — and perform actual physics experiments — is going to take two months.

Verbal racial abuse at a bus stop (social experiment) by ActionAid Hellas: On February 20th, ActionAid has conducted a social experiment in the center of Athens in 2 bus stops (Syngrou-Fix),on racism . Two actors, one from Bangladesh and the other from Greece, pretended a scene of verbal racist attack. The cameras recorded the true reactions of people waiting for the bus.

There sits, in the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford University, a bell that has been ringing, nonstop, for at least 175 years. It's powered by a single battery that was installed in 1840. Researchers would love to know what the battery is made of, but they are afraid that opening the bell would ruin an experiment to see how long it will last. The bell’s clapper oscillates back and forth constantly and quickly, ​meaning the Oxford Electric Bell, as it’s called...

The essence of levitation technology is the countervailing of gravity. It is known that an ultrasound standing wave is capable of suspending small particles at its sound pressure nodes and, so far, this method has been used to levitate lightweight particles, small creatures, and water droplets.

Scientists have discovered that the universe contains twice as much infrared light than previously thought, helping us better understand the construction of space.

Scientists have created a tractor beam that can drag objects for distances of up to 20cm - around 100 times further than in previous experiments. The doughnut-shaped laser is also reversible - so it can either repel or attract objects. In future, these beams could be used to study atmospheric pollutants, or to retrieve delicate particles of material for examination.

Twitter’s finally opening up about its new algorithm, which shows users content they aren’t asking for. In August, Twitter started surfacing tweets to users from people they didn’t follow with the hope of introducing them to new content. Now Twitter says this strategy is here for the long haul, according to a blog post.

Conducting ever more of our lives online rather than in the physical world may not be great for our retinas, our waistlines or our conversational skills, but it’s a big help when it comes to understanding our own behavior as individuals and members of society.

When someone debating privacy says, "but I don't have anything to hide," I am immediately suspicious. "Would you prove it by giving me access to your email accounts," I've taken to replying, "along with your credit card statements and bank records?" Not a single person has ever taken me up on that challenge–until now.

From many-worlds to multiverses, physicists have had to come up with some pretty bizarre theories to explain the strange world of quantum mechanics, many of which sound less like science and more like science fiction. Now you can add parallel worlds to that list, according to Physorg.com.

There’s this great Andy Warhol quote you’ve probably seen before: “I think everybody should like everybody.” You can buy posters and plates with pictures of Warhol, looking like the cover of a Belle & Sebastian album, with that phrase plastered across his face in Helvetica. But the full quote, taken from a 1963 interview in Art News, is a great description of how we interact on social media today.

Special thanks to sandy for being apart of this experiment, it couldn't have been made without him. Sandy is one of the most interesting people i have met and its unfortunate to see him in the condition he is in. On the previous video we did together, i created a donation page for him it got over $140 ; i gaved him the money and he loved it! I hope Sandy & i provided another perspective for you.

Really, it should’ve been a wonderful weekend. An old friend was in from out of town and a group of us got together to drink margaritas, eat burritos, and catch up. And then it started: I told a long, plotless “story” that was mostly just a character assassination of a mutual acquaintance of ours whom I’d never really liked. Someone else chimed in with a rant about his disorganized, clueless boss. This set another person off about the terrible new hours she’d just been given at work.