Physics
Ping-Pong Particles: What the Higgs Does
Unless you've been hiding under a chondrite for the past week you've heard the news from CERN regarding the discovery…
Higgs-like Particle Discovered at CERN
Physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have announced the discovery of what they called a “Higgs-like boson” --…
What’s a Higgs Boson, Anyway?
With the science world all abuzz in anticipation of tomorrow's official announcement from CERN in regards to its hunt for…
Tevatron Targets Higgs Mass
Today, researchers from Fermilab announced they have zeroed in further on the mass of the Higgs boson, the controversially-called "God…
Water Balloons in Space
As part of his ongoing (and always entertaining) "Science Off the Sphere" series, Expedition 31 flight engineer Don Pettit experiments…
New “Flying Tea Kettle” Could Get Us To Mars in Weeks, Not Months
At 54.6 million km away at its closest, the fastest travel to Mars from Earth using current technology (and no…
What is CERN?
Here's another great video from Sixty Symbols featuring professor Ed Copeland giving his entertaining description of CERN, the "Mecca for…
Euclid and the Geometry of the Dark Universe
Euclid, an exciting new mission to map the geometry, distribution and evolution of dark energy and dark matter has just…
Could ‘Mirror Neutrons’ Account for Unobservable Dark Matter?
Could mirror universes or parallel worlds account for dark matter -- the ‘missing’ matter in the Universe? In what seems…
Astronomers Measure Sunlight’s Shove
The physical force of sunlight on a moving asteroid has been measured by NASA scientists, providing information on how to…