Physics
New Pulsar “Clocks” Will Aid Gravitational Wave Detection
This illustration shows a pulsar's magnetic field (blue) creates narrow beams of radiation (magenta). Image credit: NASA How do you…
LHC Officially Becomes Most Powerful Accelerator
Well, they've done it: at 2028 GMT, 29 November 2009 the Large Hadron Collider officially became the most powerful particle…
First Collisions for the LHC
[/caption] Two beams circulated simultaneously inside the Large Hadron Collider for the first time today, allowing for the first proton-proton…
Large Hadron Collider Could Re-Start This Weekend
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could be re-started on this Saturday morning CERN officials said. Engineers are preparing to send…
Physicist Vitaly Ginzburg Dies at age 93
Vitaly Ginzburg, a Russian physicist and Nobel laureate, died yesterday of cardiac arrest. He was 93 years old. Ginzburg shared…
Bread Dropped By Bird Causes Problems for LHC
[/caption] Yes, this headline appears to be true. A bird dropping a piece of bread onto outdoor machinery has been…
Solving the Mystery of Cosmic Rays’ Origins
What accelerates cosmic rays to nearly the speed of light? Astronomer have pondered that question for nearly 100 years, and…
Particles Injected into Large Hadron Collider
[/caption] The Large Hadron Collider reached an important milestone last weekend as a beam of ions was injected into the…
Top Questions That Keep Physicists Awake at Night
[/caption] We all have things that keep us up at night, as we try to solve the problems in our…
Your CCD Camera Just Won a Nobel Prize
[/caption] Well, actually, the people who invented the first successful imaging technology using a digital sensor, called a CCD (Charge-Coupled…