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Your Guide to the Anomalous Universe
The universe is a deeply vexing place. Every breakthrough we make in our understanding of it begets more mysteries about how all this (gestures wildly) actually happened. In the new book Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe, experimental physicist Harry Cliff describes a handful of the most confounding phenomena at…
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Physicists Detect Neutrinos for First Time Ever Using Large Hadron Collider
Last week, a team of physicists working in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider announced the facility’s first-ever detection of neutrinos, which are some of the smallest, most weakly interacting particles yet proven to exist.
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Why The U.S. Is Betting It All On The Most Puzzling Particle In The Universe
Nearly 14 billion years ago, a universe appeared in an unthinkably high-energy blast. Particles started to materialise out of that energy, as did their antiparticles, which are kind of like evil twins, a mirror image with the opposite electric charge. Each and every particle had an antiparticle, scientists believe, and they would annihilate each other…
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Release The Muons! Physics Breakthrough Will Lead To A New Kind Of Particle Collider
The next generation of atom smasher could be a 100-kilometre-round ring, costing over $US10 ($15) billion, with no promise of finding something as glamorous as last decade’s Higgs boson. But does the future of physics need to be so large? What if researchers could probe the secrets of the smallest particles using technology that was,…