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Is this the end of particle physics as we know it? Let's hope not
The restart of experiments at CERN's Large Hardron Collider could mark the start of a new era of discovery or a big disappointment.
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I once tried to cheat sleep, and for a year I succeeded
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...
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One more piece in the puzzle of the universe—a Higgs-shaped one
What is a boson and why is the Higgs shaped boson important.
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N. Korean scientist flees to Finland with info on inhumane experiments
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Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments
Science's 10 Most Beautiful Physics Experiments
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Some first results from the new, higher-energy Large Hadron Collider
On 3 June this year, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN began delivering particle collisions at an energy 63% higher than previously acheived. This week in Vienna, first physics results were presented. Here are some highlights.
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NOvA experiment announces first results
The NOvA detector has seen its first neutrino oscillations.
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Brewing Multivariate Beer
I was toying around with the idea of multivariate beer, where the ingredients varied by county demographics. Could I taste the difference? Here's how the experiment went.
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Subatomic particles that appear to defy Standard Model points to undiscovered forces
Subatomic particles have been found that appear to defy the Standard Model of particle physics. The team working at Cern's Large Hadron Collider have found evidence of leptons decaying at different rates, which could possibly point to some undiscovered forces. Publishing their findings in the journal Physical Review Letters, the team from the University of Maryland had been searching for conditions and behaviours that do not fit with the Standard Model.
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The Corruption of the Eye: On Photogenesis and Self-Growing Images
The skin, like a cloak, covers us all over, the oldest and the most sensitive of our organs, our first medium of communication, and our most efficient of protectors. The whole body is covered by skin. Even the transparent cornea of the eye is overlain by a layer of modified skin. The skin also turns inwards to line orifices such as the mouth, nostrils, and anal canal. In the evolution of the senses the sense of touch was undoubtedly the first to come into being. Touch is the parent of our eyes.
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Data-shamed, economists are turning an influential email into an experiment about bias
Meta!
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This machine produces the largest humanmade waves in the world
Dutch scientists are making waves—big ones. A new experimental facility at Deltares, a research institute here, has begun producing the largest humanmade waves in the world. Like kids building sandcastles below the tideline on the beach, scientists will let the walls of water crash on dikes of different designs and other structures—sometimes until they're destroyed.
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A NASA Experiment Is Going to Light Up the Sky With Beautifully Colored Clouds Tonight
If you’re on the east coast tonight, keep an eye on the sky between 7pm and 9pm: NASA is launching a test of some new tech that will include releasing colorful vapor tracers 130 miles above the Earth. It sounds like it’s going to be beautiful. The vapors will be ejected from a sounding rocket launched from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. NASA explains that it has actually been injecting various vapor tracers into the atmosphere...
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Largest-ever dark-matter experiment poised to test popular theory
The world's most sensitive detector for dark matter — the mysterious stuff thought to make up 85% of matter in the Universe — was inaugurated on 11 November under the Gran Sasso mountain in central Italy. If the experiment, called XENON1T, finds dark matter, it will enter the history books. Meanwhile a failure to do so, say many theorists, would go a long way to ruling out a popular candidate for the elusive substance — a type of weakly interacting massive...
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Is That You, Rosie? Humanoid Atlas Robot Takes on Household Cleaning Tasks
Fans of "The Jetsons" may see shades of the robotic maid Rosie as this Atlas humanoid robot attempts various cleaning tasks. The video, from robotics company IHMC, is shown at 20x speed so you don't have to wait for the slow-moving bot to get into position. But just because Atlas can do it doesn't mean it's easy. Someone has to control its movements, double-check its hand positions when picking something up, and make sure it doesn't fall...
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This Guy Defies Death To Demonstrate Physics Law
Physicist Andreas Wahl would feel truly at home among the world’s dying breed of “mad scientists.” He wanted to demonstrate some Newtonian laws of circular motion and how objects with a centripetal force, which forces traveling objects to follow a curved path, accelerate as they approach a central point. However, sterile laboratories with little pulleys and weights don’t quite do it justice. Instead, it seems hanging 14 meters (46 feet) off...
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Inverted Wineglass Harp
The “wineglass harp” is a classic demonstration of two phenomena: resonance, and why you don’t take young kids to nice restaurants. But with a few simple materials, you can perform a neat new take on this classic experiment at home (and without disrupting anyone’s dinner conversation!)
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First tomatoes, peas harvested from mock Martian farm
Round two of the Martian farming experiment at Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands has proven more successful than the last. This week, researchers announced a bountiful harvest from soil designed to mimic the makeup of Martian soil. Harvested crops included tomatoes, peas, rye, garden rocket, radish and garden cress. Scientists said lessons learned during round one allowed for greater success...
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NASA Is Going to Light a 'Large Fire' on a Spaceship
On a press call this afternoon, NASA and its research partners discussed several science experiments headed to orbit with the next ISS resupply mission. The space agency covered a host of interesting topics, including 3D printing, micrometeorite studies, and robotic grippers for hoisting objects onto walls. And then, the bombshell: NASA would like to light a “large scale fire” in space.
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