CERN

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…

12 years ago

What is CERN?

Here's another great video from Sixty Symbols featuring professor Ed Copeland giving his entertaining description of CERN, the "Mecca for…

13 years ago

Neutrinos Obey The Speed Limit, After All

[/caption] Neutrinos have been cleared of allegations of speeding, according to an announcement issued today by CERN and the ICARUS…

13 years ago

Faster Than Light? More Like Faulty Wiring.

[/caption] You can shelf your designs for a warp drive engine (for now) and put the DeLorean back in the…

13 years ago

Particle Physicists Put the Squeeze on the Higgs Boson; Look for Conclusive Results in 2012

[/caption] With “freshly squeezed” plots from the latest data garnered by two particle physics experiments, teams of scientists from the…

13 years ago

Neutrinos Still Breaking Speed Limits

[/caption] New test results are in from OPERA and it seems those darn neutrinos, they just can't keep their speed…

13 years ago

Special Relativity May Answer Faster-than-Light Neutrino Mystery

[/caption] Oh, yeah. Moving faster than the speed of light has been the hot topic in the news and OPERA…

13 years ago

Particle Physics and Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos…Discuss.

On September 22, an international team of researchers working on the OPERA project at the Gran Sasso research facility released…

13 years ago

Faster Than The Speed Of Light… OPERA Update

[/caption] A few days ago, the physics world was turned upside down at the announcement of "faster than the speed…

13 years ago

Breaking the Speed of Light

[/caption] It's been a tenet of the standard model of physics for over a century. The speed of light is…

13 years ago