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CERN Pays Tribute to Peter Higgs – “God Particle” Physicist Passes Away at 94
SciTechDaily· 7 days agoPeter Higgs, pivotal in the discovery of the “God Particle,” has died at the age of 94. Peter Higgs...
Videos show opening of Swiss rail tunnel, not CERN
Politifact· 6 days agoIt is not an event you’d expect in a nuclear research facility, but an April 14 Instagram post claimed this video showed the opening of CERN, or the...
Weather map 'anomaly' from data error, not massive post-eclipse waves | Fact check
USA Today· 5 days agoAn April 13 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows images of weather maps with a large...
CMS Collaboration observes new all-heavy quark structures
Phys.org· 5 hours agoIn a recent paper, published in Physical Review Letters, the CMS Collaboration reported three exotic all-heavy quark structures. "Pretty much all the stuff we experience in our daily lives is ...
A first glimpse at our galaxy's magnetic field in 3D
Phys.org· 5 hours agoThe space between stars is dirty. It is filled with small dust grains, most of which are similar in size with the smoke from a cigarette. The grains are not spherical and as a result their long ...
Materials Follow the “Rule of Four” — But Scientists Don’t Know Why Yet
Technology Networks· 5 days agoThe two collections include over 80,000 electronic structures of experimental as well as predicted...
Scientists puzzled by "rule of four" pattern found in most materials
Newsweek· 4 days agoA bizarre "Rule of Four" has been identified in the basic structure of the majority of inorganic...
Theory Thesis Wins APS Dissertation Award
Newswise· 2 days agoNEWPORT NEWS -- When Zhite Yu began writing his doctoral thesis in January 2023, he had a nagging feeling he wasn’t properly explaining his work. Yu...
Why Europe Must End Its 30-Year Digital Winter to Ensure Its Long-Run Future
PYMNTS.com· 6 days agoIn the last 30 years, Europe — defined here as the EU plus the U.K., Norway and Switzerland — has...
Peter Higgs’ famous particle discovery is now at the heart of strategies to unlock the secrets of...
The Conversation· 5 days agoA giant of particle physics, Peter Wade Higgs, passed away at his home in Edinburgh on April 8 2024, having lived to 94 years. When Higgs was born in 1929, our understanding of matter was completely ...