particle physics

The Higgs Boson in One Minute… or Two…

If you're still scratching your head, trying to figure out all the Higgs Boson news, the great folks from MinutePhysics…

12 years ago

Ping-Pong Particles: What the Higgs Does

Unless you've been hiding under a chondrite for the past week you've heard the news from CERN regarding the discovery…

12 years ago

Higgs-like Particle Discovered at CERN

Physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have announced the discovery of what they called a “Higgs-like boson” --…

12 years ago

Polar Telescope Casts New Light On Dark Energy And Neutrino Mass

[/caption] Located at the southermost point on Earth, the 280-ton, 10-meter-wide South Pole Telescope has helped astronomers unravel the nature…

12 years ago

Particle Physicists Put the Squeeze on the Higgs Boson; Look for Conclusive Results in 2012

[/caption] With “freshly squeezed” plots from the latest data garnered by two particle physics experiments, teams of scientists from the…

12 years ago

Neutrinos Still Breaking Speed Limits

[/caption] New test results are in from OPERA and it seems those darn neutrinos, they just can't keep their speed…

12 years ago

Large Hadron Collider Finishes 2011 Proton Run

[/caption] The world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator has been busy. At 5:15 p.m. on October 30, 2011, the Large…

12 years ago

Q&A with Brian Cox, part 1: Recent Hints of the Higgs

[/caption] At two separate conferences in July, particle physicists announced some provoking news about the Higgs boson, and while the…

13 years ago

AMS Now Attached to the Space Station, Ready to Observe the Invisible Universe

The long-awaited Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle physics detector that could unlock mysteries about dark matter and other cosmic radiation,…

13 years ago

Did the Early Universe Have Just One Dimension?

[/caption] From a University of Buffalo press release: Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That's the mind-boggling…

13 years ago