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Cern scientists suspect glimpse of Higgs boson ‘God particle’
Unusual data bumps detected by two teams at Large Hadron Collider thought to be glimpse of elusive source of particle mass Scientists may have caught their first glimpse of the elusiveHiggs boson, or “God particle”, which is thought to give mass to the basic building blocks of nature. Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider at […]
Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water
July 22, 2011
Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean, surrounds a huge, feeding black hole, called a quasar, more than 12 billion light-years away. “The environment around this quasar is very unique […]
Sun’s death rattle may hurl comets out of solar system
July 22, 2011
A DYING star deserves a last hurrah. It is fitting then, that our sun will throw many of its comets into interstellar space when it dies, according to new simulations. In about 5 billion years, the sun will run out of hydrogen to burn in its core and will expand to become a red giant […]
Snowstorms on Mars may dwarf those on Earth
July 22, 2011
SNOWSTORMS more violent than any on Earth may have hit Mars – and could occasionally strike again, despite its extremely dry climate. No rain or snowstorms have ever been observed on Mars, which has been mostly cold and dry for about 3.5 billion years. But mineral evidence suggests short-lived lakes have formed intermittently on the […]
The Best Space Shuttle Tribute Video
July 22, 2011
Remembering what it was to be 10 and in awe of the future There are a bunch of videos out there paying tribute to the end of the final flight of one of the most complicated pieces of technology ever conceived — the Space Shuttle. Despite a childhood spent dreaming of becoming an astronaut, running […]
Fermilab experiment discovers a heavy relative of the neutron
July 22, 2011
Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced the observation of a new particle, the neutral Xi-sub-b (Ξb0). This particle contains three quarks: a strange quark, an up quark and a bottom quark (s-u-b). While its existence was predicted by the Standard Model, the observation of the neutral […]
No privilege for earthly observers
July 22, 2011
Confirmation of the Copernican Principle at Gpc Radial Scale and above from the Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect Power Spectrum Pengjie Zhang and Albert Stebbins Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 041301 (Published July 21, 2011) According to most cosmologists, there is nothing special about us as observers of the universe. Still, some theories shirk this so-called Copernican principle, […]
Elliptical galaxies much younger than previously thought?
July 22, 2011
The standard model for elliptical galaxies formation is challenged by a new result uncovered by an international team of astronomers from the Atlas3D collaboration. Team members from CNRS, CEA, CFHT, and the Observatoire de Lyon published in the scientific journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society the first results from their study on two […]
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