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NOvA Experiment Nabs Its First Neutrinos

15 Feb , 2014 by Jason Major

Neutrinos are some of the most abundant, curious, and elusive critters in particle physics. Incredibly lightweight — nigh massless, according to the Standard Model — as well as chargeless, they zip around the Universe at the speed of light and they don’t interact with any other particles. Some of them have been around since the […]

Tevatron Targets Higgs Mass

2 Jul , 2012 by Jason Major

Today, researchers from Fermilab announced they have zeroed in further on the mass of the Higgs boson, the controversially-called “God particle”* that is thought to be the key to all mass in the Universe. This news comes just two days before a highly-anticipated announcement by CERN during the ICHEP physics conference in Melbourne, Australia (which […]

Galactic Gong – Milky Way Struck and Still Ringing After 100 Million Years

29 Jun , 2012 by John Williams

When galaxies collide, stars are thrown from orbits, spiral arms are stretched and twisted, and now scientists say galaxies ring like a bell long after the cosmic crash. A team of astronomers from the United States and Canada say they have heard echoes of that ringing, possible evidence of a galactic encounter 100 million years […]

Hailing Frequencies Open? Communication Via Neutrinos Tested Successfully

11 Apr , 2012 by Nancy Atkinson

[/caption] In science fiction – like in Star Trek, for example — interstellar communication was never a problem; all you needed was to have Urhura open up hailing frequencies to Starfleet Command. But in the real universe, communicating between star systems poses a dilemma with current radio technology. There’s also a very real problem today […]

Particle Physicists See Something Little That Could be Really Big

7 Apr , 2011 by Nancy Atkinson

[/caption] Physicists from Fermilab have seen a “bump” in their data that could indicate a brand new particle unlike any ever seen before. If verified, this could re-write particle physics as we know it. “Essentially, the Tevatron has seen evidence for a new particle, 150 times mass of proton, that doesn’t behave like a standard […]

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NOvA Experiment Nabs Its First Neutrinos

Tevatron Targets Higgs Mass

Galactic Gong – Milky Way Struck and Still Ringing After 100 Million Years

Hailing Frequencies Open? Communication Via Neutrinos Tested Successfully

Particle Physicists See Something Little That Could be Really Big

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