(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists collaborating on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva will announce their latest results in the search for the Higgs boson particle on Tuesday 13 December.
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On December 13, CERN will release the results of a new data analysis in the search for the Higgs boson. at the LHC. As I was reporting my article, which appeared today , on December 7 I spoke on the phone with Joe Lykken, a Fermilab staff theoretical physicist
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In the search to help patients with Progeria, a disorder that causes accelerated aging, scientists have uncovered what makes us age over time. Will this open the door for true anti-aging treatments? Wyatt Andrews reports
Read More »Under pressure, sodium and hydrogen could undergo a metamorphosis, emerging as a superconductor
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the search for superconductors, finding ways to compress hydrogen into a metal has been a point of focus ever since scientists predicted many years ago that electricity would flow, uninhibited, through such a material.
Read More »Video: AIDS milestone: 30 years of the disease
Harry Smith takes a look back at the past 30 years of AIDS - from its earliest reports as a "gay cancer," to the Ryan White controversy, to the introduction of the term, "safe sex" into everyday life - and how the search for a cure continues.
Read More »‘Master switch’ for obesity, diabetes found
Scientists have found that a gene linked to diabetes and cholesterol is a "master switch" that controls other genes found in fat in the body, and say it should help in the search for treatments for obesity-related diseases.
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