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Weekly Space Hangout – Nov. 14, 2014: Holy Rosetta! We Landed on a Comet!
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein) Alessondra Springmann (@sondy) Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) (more…)
First Precise Measurement of Antihydrogen
The best science — the questions that capture and compel any human being — is enshrouded in mystery. Here’s an…
Higgs Boson Physicists Receive 2013 Nobel Prize
That was fast! Just one year after a Higgs Boson-like particle was found at the Large Hadron Collider, the two physicists…
An “Elemental” Explanation of Dark Matter
Atoms, string theory, dark matter, dark energy... there's an awful lot about the Universe that might make sense on paper…
Will Antimatter Obey Gravity’s Pull?
What goes up must always come down, right? Well, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) wants to test if that…
The Face of Creation
The latest autotuned installment in John D. Boswell's Symphony of Science series waxes melodic about the particle-smashing science being done…
Stephen Hawking and CERN LHC Team Each Win $3 Million Prize
Stephen Hawking visited the Large Hadron Collider's underground tunnel at Europe's CERN particle physics research center in 2006. Hawking and…
Physicists Closing in on Understanding the Primordial Universe
Photo of the ALICE detector at CERN. Photo courtesy of CERN. Slamming barely nothing together is bringing scientists ever-closer to…
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” --…