It was a race to find the Higgs Boson – a scientific quest that has been years in the making. July 2 2012: The Tevatron: The scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Tevatron collider revealed their latest results on July 2nd, two days before the highly anticipated announcement of the latest Higgs results from
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Friday, 7 October 2011 by Estelle Asmodelle Cosmos Online Disorder can greatly affect how waves travel, sometimes even causing them to stop in their tracks. A lone trumpeter on stage has no trouble projecting to the entire audience, since the sound waves from his horn travel freely in every direction. If a small amount of
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Thursday, 15 September 2011 by Estelle Asmodelle Cosmos Online This image shows the CRESST experiment. The detectors are supercooled to a temperature only slightly above absolute zero. Credit: Credit: CRESST & The Max-Planck-Institut für Physik. GOSFORD: Physicists have detected signals that could be interpreted as dark matter, the elusive substance believed to comprise 80% of
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011 by Estelle Asmodelle Cosmos Online Viewing image 1 of 2 In the diagram a light trajectory is shown. The light ray enters the device, completes a loop, bounces off the mirror twice and leaves the cloak with its original direction restored (A). Credit: Perczel et al & New J. Phys. Panel
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Jan 5, 2005 The last 30 years of his life were spent on a fruitless search for a unified field theory, but as John Ellis explains, Einstein put this “holy grail” of modern physics on the theoretical map. The definitive scientific biography of Einstein, Subtle is the Lord…, which was written by Abraham Pais in
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