particles
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Why Discovering A New Particle Would Be Such A Huge Deal
When physicists at the Large Hadron Collider announced the detection of a possible, unexpected new particle last December, we advised caution, since most such hints go away when more data comes in. We won’t know for sure until this winter whether it’s real, or just random noise in the data masquerading as a signal. While…
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Sub-Atomic Particles Could Accelerate Themselves
At school, we all learned from Isaac Newton that no object can change its speed unless an external force acts upon it. For the most part he’s right — but now a team of physicists has demonstrated that sub-atomic particles could, in fact, accelerate themselves, without any force applied whatsoever.
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Mystery Particles On Mars Revealed By Curiosity’s Junk
Sifting through soil on Mars, NASA’s rover Curiosity paused to take a picture — and exposed its own bad behaviour. The shot included a bright object lying in the Martian dirt, and a closer look suggests that the rover is guilty of littering: it appears the object is a piece of plastic wrapper that has…
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DIY Project: Wine Bottle-Sized Subatomic Particle Accelerator
Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) televisions may be more than on their way to chill with the dodo bird in the land of extinction, but that doesn’t mean the DIY sect amongst us can’t enjoy its reto goodness anyway.