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Hey, Who Switched Off the Universe?
Illustration by Christoph Niemann A random fluctuation of the vacuum of space anywhere in the universe could flip the cosmic light switch to "off," plunging the whole of creation into darkness....
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Guess What: Neutrinos Have Mass
This is actually a nutria-not to be confused with a neutrino, which would have far less massScientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, announced yesterday the first...
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Tevatron Particle Study Finds Exciting New Clue to Why Everything Exists
Collider Experiments Could Help Explain Existence The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Experiments at the LHC could help scientists understand recent findings about...
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At Physics Conference, Scientists Say They Are Closing In on 'God Particle'
TevatronFermilabAs particle physicists gather this week for a conference in Paris, they're reporting progress toward finding the elusive Higgs boson, with two groups suggesting a Higgs discovery may...
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Fermilab Experiment Hints At Existence of Brand-New Elementary Particle
MiniBooNE Focusing Device This focusing device, called a horn, is pulsed five times per second with a 170,000-amp current, creating a strong magnetic field that steers neutrinos toward the MiniBooNE...
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Fermilab Physicists Have Detected A Possible New Particle or New Force
TevatronFermilabMay be "the most significant discovery in physics in half a century"Physicists at Fermilab might have found evidence of a new elementary particle or an entirely new force of nature,...
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The World's Biggest Space Experiment Launches Tomorrow, Ready to Find Dark...
In the Cargo Bay The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is loaded into space shuttle Endeavour's cargo bay. Michele Famiglietti/AMS-02 CollaborationThe ultra-sensitive Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer will hunt...
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Tevatron Did Not See A New Particle After All, Fermilab Says
Fermilab's TevatronReidar Hahn/FermilabAmerica's grand particle smasher may not go out with a bang after all. A bump in data at the Tevatron, reported earlier this spring, turns out to be a false alarm...
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Fresh Data From CERN and Tevatron Gives A Glimpse of the God Particle
Simulated Higgs Event This simulation shows the production of a Higgs boson following a collision of two protons. The Higgs decays into two jets of hadrons and two electrons. via Wikimedia CommonsA...
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Latest Results from the Large Hadron Collider Do Not Look Good For the...
Maybe not the 'toe of God' after all The latest news from the Large Hadron Collider: scientists still cannot explain why we're all here. In the most detailed analysis of strange beauty particles -...
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A Tantalizing Glimpse That May Be the Higgs Boson - But Wait For 2012
CMS Collision Event A typical candidate event including two high-energy photons whose energy (depicted by dashed yellow lines and red towers) is measured in the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter. The...
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Tevatron Finds Hints of Higgs Boson, Just Where CERN Sniffed it Last Winter
Tevatron Somewhere in those big rings a tiny particle may be hiding. U.S. Department of EnergyPosthumous results from Fermilab's accelerator Before it stopped colliding for good, America's defunct...
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Tantalizing Signs of Higgs Boson Found By U.S. Tevatron Collider
Tevatron at Night The Tevatron typically produced about 10 million proton-antiproton collisions per second. Each collision produced hundreds of particles. The CDF and DZero experiments recorded about...
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Hello, Higgs Boson: LHC's New Particle Looks Like the Real Thing
Proton-Proton Collision A simulation of the two-photon channel shows what ATLAS sees when the decay of a Higgs boson results in the production of two gamma rays. The blue beads indicate intermediate...
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How Particle Physics Can Improve Your Netflix Recommendations
Standard ModelFermilabUnlimited products are like bosons and restaurant reservations are like fermions. From OpenTable to Amazon to your Netflix queue, algorithms sift through what we seem to like and...
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Today In Long Reads: Dramatizing The Hunt For The Higgs Boson
Higgs Candidate Event A proton-proton collision event in the CMS experiment produces two high-energy photons (the red towers). This is what physicists would expect to see from the decay of a Higgs...
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Guess What: Neutrinos Have Mass
This is actually a nutria—not to be confused with a neutrino, which would have far less massScientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, announced yesterday the first...
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Tevatron Particle Study Finds Exciting New Clue to Why Everything Exists
Collider Experiments Could Help Explain Existence The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Experiments at the LHC could help scientists understand recent findings about...
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At Physics Conference, Scientists Say They Are Closing In on 'God Particle'
Tevatron Fermilab As particle physicists gather this week for a conference in Paris, they're reporting progress toward finding the elusive Higgs boson, with two groups suggesting a Higgs discovery may...
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Fermilab Experiment Hints At Existence of Brand-New Elementary Particle
MiniBooNE Focusing Device This focusing device, called a horn, is pulsed five times per second with a 170,000-amp current, creating a strong magnetic field that steers neutrinos toward the MiniBooNE...
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