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She worked for a summer at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, known as CERN, the world's largest nuclear accelerator, before graduating from Stanford in 1980. She went on to Harvard, getting his doctorate. in 1984.…

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The electronic properties of materials can be directly influenced by absorbing light in less than a femtosecond (10-15 seconds), which is considered the limit of the maximum achievable speed of electronic circuits. On the other hand, the…

We may not know the meaning of life, but we are getting closer to knowing what it is made of. The answer to our huge questions starts small: particle physics. Step back layer after layer, channel a lot of energy into…

Professor John Terning and Dr Christopher Verhaaren of the University of California, Davis have a new candidate for dark matter - a dark monopoly - and a possible way to detect it. Nobody knows what dark matter is, but this invisible…

To what extent is the climate catastrophe really…

The Large Hadron Collider is the largest particle accelerator in the world. It is a 26 kilometer long underground ring, located at CERN in Geneva, in which protons collide at a speed close to light. With a price tag of $5 billion and an…

Before you brush off this post with the "sure" response, let me qualify the title. Of course, anyone can become a particle physicist, although the learning curve can be steep and difficult to climb. But what I mean here is…

Posted: Sep 11, 2018 (News from Nanowerk) Particle physicists are looking for light. Not just any light, but a characteristic signal produced by the interaction of certain particles - such as ghostly neutrinos, which are…

If you've been following recent high-level appointments in the artificial intelligence and machine learning industry, you would have noticed a marked increase in the number of theoretical physicists in senior positions at companies…

August 17, 2018&ball; Physics 11, 82The ultimate reference on all things particle physics is available online, with a lite version of the booklet to follow soon. APS The 60th anniversary edition of the Particle Physics Review…

Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider produce about one million gigabytes of data every second. Even after reduction and compression, the data accumulated in just one hour at the LHC is similar to the volume of data that Facebook…

A massive project to supercharge the world's largest particle collider was launched on Friday in hopes the boosted machine will reveal new information about the nature of the universe.The 950m Swiss franc (£720m) mission will see the…

My copy of the forthcoming book by Sabine Hossenfelder. Chad Orzel Sabine Hossenfelder, another old school physics blogger, has released a new book, Lost in Math: How Beauty Misleads Physics…

The volume of data that particle physicists have to sort through at the Large Hadron Collider is staggering, and it's about to increase by an order of magnitude. To cope with this torrent of data, CERN is turning to machine learning,…

Physicists in China are on the verge of "vacuum breaking" - a phenomenon created by lasers of unprecedented power that physically rip particles out of empty space, showing that matter and energy are interchangeable, as Albert Einstein…

Colleagues, students celebrate the success of the teacher, his passion for science A professor once recalled how 16-year-old Larry Sulak came across in an interview for an unpaid summer job in his lab: "A bright-eyed, bubbly…

Julien Prisco is a futurist, theoretical physicist and computer scientist. He writes about science, technology and the future. He is also co-founder of Space cooperative.An attempt theoretical explanation for the mysterious and…

Artistic impression of a space-time twist in a crystal. Credit: University of Oxford Are…

Only a small part of the universe is made up of visible matter. From a distance, most of it is invisible and consists of dark matter and dark energy. Very little is known about dark energy, but there are many theories and experiments…

North America's largest particle physics project is taking its first steps, and CU Boulder is involved. Our understanding of the universe may soon change thanks to the efforts of a thousand scientists around the world, including two from…

Each time physicists discover a new particle, the Standard Model gets one step closer to becoming a Super Model. Key pointsThe Standard Model fits the quantum world perfectly, but it can't explain gravity, dark matter, or dark…

A four-muon candidate event in the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The muon/anti-muon... tracks are highlighted in red because long-lived muons travel farther than any other unstable particle.…

Theoretical physicists have advanced a new hypothesis that aims to connect the world of visible physics to the hidden forces of our Universe: what if there was a portal that would bridge the gap between the Standard Model and dark matter…

Neutrinos are among the most mysterious particles that exist. They are extremely difficult to detect because they tend to avoid other particles, but we know that they are expelled by supernovae, that one hundred trillion pass through our…

When computers independently identify bodies of water and their outlines in satellite images, or beat the world's best professional players at the board game Go, adaptive algorithms are working in the background. Programmers provide these…

Working together, particle physicists from the United States and around the world have made exciting progress this year in our understanding of the universe at the smallest and largest scales. The LIGO…

Particle physics is amazing - an impressive combination of ambitious research and technical skill. Theorists have constructed a picture of our universe on the smallest scale, and experimentalists have devised the most ambitious experiments…

Recent findings from a team of experimental nuclear physicists in Hungary pointing to the possible discovery of a new subatomic particle could be evidence of a fifth force of nature, according to a team of theoretical physicists from the…

With tens of thousands of particle physicists working around the world today, the biggest challenge a researcher can have is keeping up with what others are doing. The articles they write, the collaborations…

Kristin Wiig will play badass particle physicist Erin Gilbert in the new ghost hunters, coming to theaters in July. In the official trailer, which was released on Thursday, fellow ectoplasm blaster Abby Yates, played by Melissa McCarthy,…

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Physicists around the world (myself included) are hoping that this week will usher in a new era of discovery. And not, as some fear, the end of particle physics as we know it. After 27 months of shutdown and return to service, the…

The Standard Model of particle physics, which describes every particle we know of and how they interact, received a lot of credit when the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012. Now measurements of a rare particle physics decay particles…

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This week marks the end of a multi-step community planning process that will shape the coming decades of particle physics in the United States. On Thursday, the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel, or P5, will present its report —…

iron man 2the second installment of Iron Man film franchise, finds hero Tony Stark in a pickle: The "arc reactor" in Stark's chest (which generates magnetic fields to stop the movement of shrapnel through his body) is powered by palladium,…

As emerging players shake up old ambitions, Nigel Lockyer calls for the next generation of particle physics projects to be coordinated on a global scale.…

The same particle physics technology used to understand the universe is also used to improve health and medicine. Accelerators and detectors play an important role in the diagnosis of diseases, the reduction of tumors and the sterilization…

Saturday begins a new stage in the process that will set the priorities for US particle physics research for the next decade. The federal government's Particle Physics Research Advisory Group has appointed a group, called the Particle…

"Finally here!" With this unusual but understandable exuberance, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that it has awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics to François Englert and Peter Higgs. Nearly half a century ago,…

At a major particle physics planning meeting this summer, a few dozen physicists volunteered to speak on camera about why they do what they do. We at symmetry chose our top five explanations and asked you to vote for your favorite. The…

Today, more than 600 particle physicists from nearly 100 universities and laboratories gathered at the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. Over the next nine days, this diverse group of experts, who study the most…

Layers Using particle accelerators, chemists were able to see the detailed wet structure of the superabsorbent polymer material used in the diapers for the first time. This allowed them to tweak and improve the formula of superabsorbent…

In particle physics, advanced computing is a way of life. Studying the universe on the smallest scale requires some of the largest datasets in the world, and particle physicists often have to create their own solutions to computational…

From Nature magazine A billionaire internet tycoon has awarded a record $27 million to nine physicists for their work on fundamental theory. Yuri Milner, who made his fortune investing in social media companies, announced the new…

Image from the Beacons of Discovery report, by Reidar Hahn. This week, an international organization released its vision for the future of particle physics around the world. The International Committee for Future Accelerators has posted…