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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...
Materials follow the 'Rule of Four,' but scientists don't know why yet
Phys.org· 5 days agoScientists are normally happy to find regularities and correlations in their data—but only if they can explain them. Otherwise, they worry that those patterns might just be revealing some flaw in the data itself, so-called experimental artifacts.
A first glimpse at our galaxy's magnetic field in 3D
Phys.org· 13 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 ...
CMS Collaboration observes new all-heavy quark structures
Phys.org· 12 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 ...
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 ...
