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By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine A hint of the Higgs boson , the missing piece in the standard model of particle physics, has been found in data collected by the Tevatron, the now-shuttered U.S.
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By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine When Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S.
Read More »Quantum Theory’s ‘Wavefunction’ Found to Be Real Physical Entity
By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine At the heart of the weirdness for which the field of quantum mechanics is famous is the wavefunction, a powerful but mysterious entity that is used to determine the probabilities that quantum particles will have certain properties. [More]
Read More »Finding Puts Brakes on Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos
By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine The claim that neutrinos can travel faster than light has been given a knock by an independent experiment. On 17 October, the Imaging Cosmic and Rare Underground Signals (ICARUS) collaboration submitted a paper to the preprint server arXiv.org, in which it offered a rebuttal of claims to have clocked subatomic particles called neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light. [More]
Read More »List of Nuclear Isotope Discoveries Shows U.S. Contributions in Decline
By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine When it comes to discovering nuclear isotopes, retired physicist Gottfried M
Read More »Tevatron Shutdown at Fermillab Likely to Mean Smaller Physics Groups
By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine Shortly after 2 p.m. [More]
Read More »Federal Agencies Unveil Plans to Safeguard Science
By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine Microbiologist David Lewis knew he might upset the biosolids industry with his research, which suggested that the spreading of sewage sludge on land could make people sick. [More]
Read More »What Does the U.S. Debt-Ceiling Debate Mean for Science?
By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine The US Treasury has warned that if the US debt ceiling, the amount that the country may legally borrow, is not raised by 2 August, the country will not legally be able to pay all its obligations. [More]
Read More »Fundamental Physical Constants Get Updated Values
By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine As cheat sheets go, it is a long one. [More]
Read More »Change Rattles Arecibo Radio Telescope
By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine As Earth's biggest "ear" on the Universe, the giant 305-meter radio dish at Arecibo , Puerto Rico, has played a part in groundbreaking discoveries, searches for alien civilizations and the occasional Holly
Read More »Troubled Probe Upholds Einstein
By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine An epic victory over daunting challenges, or a costly project that should never have flown? After nearly half a century of work and US$750 million spent, Gravity Probe B, one of NASA's longest-running mission programs, has finally achieved some scientific closure. [More]
Read More »The Amazing Disappearing Neutrino
By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine Neutrinos have long perplexed physicists with their uncanny ability to evade detection, with as many as two-thirds of the ghostly particles apparently going missing en route from the Sun to Earth. [More]
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