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Actually, popular music is arguably “better” today. But in the Sixties it was more creative — or at least more experimental. So says science. (Via Kevin Drum.) The science under consideration was carried out by a group of Spanish scientists led by Joan Serrà, and appeared in Scientific Reports, an open-access journal published by Nature. [...]: Subscribe get both print AND tablet editions Subscribe Buy This Issue Subscribe to Digital Give as a Gift Subscribe News Features News Features Ask the Experts Edit This Extreme Tech Fact or Fiction In-Depth Reports Mind Matters Blogs A Blog Around The Clock Anecdotes from the Archive ScientificAmerican Brainwaves Budding Scientist The Countdown Critical Opalescence The SA Incubator The Network Central Scientific American Observations Octopus Chronicles Solar at Home Streams of Consciousness Talking Back From Our Network Multimedia Interactive Features Video Iron Egghead Contest Slide Shows 60-Second Science Podcast 60-Second Mind Podcast 60-Second Earth Podcast 60-Second Space Podcast 60-Second Health Podcast 60-Second Tech Podcast Science Talk Podcast Science Images Education Science: Subscribe get both print AND tablet editions Subscribe Buy This Issue Subscribe to Digital Give as a Gift Subscribe News Features News Features Ask the Experts Edit This Extreme Tech Fact or Fiction In-Depth Reports Mind Matters Blogs A Blog Around The Clock Anecdotes from the Archive ScientificAmerican Brainwaves Budding Scientist The Countdown Critical Opalescence The SA Incubator The Network Central Scientific American Observations Octopus Chronicles Solar at Home Streams of Consciousness Talking Back From Our Network Multimedia Interactive Features Video Iron Egghead Contest Slide Shows 60-Second Science Podcast 60-Second Mind Podcast 60-Second Earth Podcast 60-Second Space Podcast 60-Second Health Podcast 60-Second Tech Podcast Science Talk Podcast Science Images Education Science: Subscribe get both print AND tablet editions Subscribe Buy This Issue Subscribe to Digital Give as a Gift Subscribe News Features News Features Ask the Experts Edit This Extreme Tech Fact or Fiction In-Depth Reports Mind Matters Blogs A Blog Around The Clock Anecdotes from the Archive ScientificAmerican Brainwaves Budding Scientist The Countdown Critical Opalescence The SA Incubator The Network Central Scientific American Observations Octopus Chronicles Solar at Home Streams of Consciousness Talking Back From Our Network Multimedia Interactive Features Video Iron Egghead Contest Slide Shows 60-Second Science Podcast 60-Second Mind Podcast 60-Second Earth Podcast 60-Second Space Podcast 60-Second Health Podcast 60-Second Tech Podcast Science Talk Podcast Science Images Education Science
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At their final performance on July 21, it was apparent that the members of Les Horribles Cernettes, a physics-themed doo-wop group, loved every proton of the more than 500 people that packed the annual Hardronic Music Festival at CERN.
Five U.S. astronauts spoke at CERN Wednesday to celebrate a year of data-collection by the largest experiment in space.
On July 4, CERN hosted a seminar to share the latest results in the search for the Higgs boson. Check out this collection of images from the historic day.
Thanks to a few creative scientists, the recent discovery of a Higgs-like particle is music to more than just particle physicists’ ears.
For the past two years, COUPP-4, a 4-kilogram bubble chamber experiment, has searched for signs of dark matter a mile underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario. Now that experiment is about to get company – its big brother is moving in.
Spotted on a table of old instruments while wandering around London's Portabello Road market two Sundays ago.
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I found the labelling amusing.
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Ever since CERN announced the discovery of a new particle behaving like the theorized Higgs boson on
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Last week, Fermilab’s planned Mu2e experiment passed the second step of the Department of Energy's five-step approval process, only about a month after the DOE’s initial review.
After a few provocative hints over the last few years, new results in the search for weakly-interacting dark matter have come up empty. The latest is from XENON100, a liquid-xenon scintillation detector under the mountain in Gran Sasso, Italy. Here are the talk slides by Elena Aprile (pdf) from the Dark Attack conference in Switzerland [...]
The XENON collaboration announced this week that they detected no signs of potential dark matter particles during the last 13 months. Their results will be used to narrow the search for the unseen particles that scientists think make up most of the matter in the universe.
By Rose Hoare, CNN CERN experimental physicist Fabiola Gianotti in the ATLAS detector, 14 April, 200
Since 4th July I have been asked countless times about the search for the Higgs boson. What is the H
I sometimes try to imagine what it must have been like to be part of the group of people that came u
Illustration by Moonrunner Design Ltd., National Geographic He can mostly explain what’s going
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope just received another boost. The National Science Foundation announced today that it will advance the giant telescope to the final design stage.
: skip to main skip to sidebar The Science of Conundrums THE IMPACT OF MEGASCIENCE Tuesday , July 17, 2012 Surreal Higgs Bumps The LHC Alan Gillis Reports Es macho el Higgs o no es macho Did Alexander Calder discover the Higg's boson while inventing the Large Hadron Collider Well , anything is possible in Quantum mechanics . Physicists at CERN have always been closet Surrealists . Their latest hat trick , Run Rabbit Run , a brand new particle , possibly the one they were looking for . Though it will take more analysis and more experimental data and maybe even a new cleaner very high energy electron-positron collider to find out . The Higgs is an important particle and central to Standard Model physics if it exists . The Higgs has to be nailed or the SM collection of interlocking theories
Higgs the cat, owner of friend and guest author of the blog Faye Flam, has written his own take on the Higgs boson as a contribution to Faye’s Planet of the Apes blog. Faye will shamelessly plagiarize Higgs in Monday’s Philadelphia Inquirer, but you can read it straight from the kitty’s mouth at the above [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m now in Auckland. Richard Easther, a repatriated Kiwi who came here from Yale last year to head up the physics department, has organized a workshop on “The LHC, Particle Physics and the Cosmos“, at which I gave a talk this morning. This is a very different affair [...]
Back in Los Angeles, after my brief action-packed jaunt to Geneva. Higgsteria continues, and I’ll be on NPR’s Science Friday later today to talk about it. That’s 2pm Eastern, 11am Pacific time. Hope to do justice to the palpable air of excitement at CERN and around the world. After that, I think certain parts of [...]
Finally, after monumental work, we have discovered a new particle !!! This is an historic day in particle physics, fireworks are very well justified. CMS and ATLAS presented status reports showing that the 2012 data confirm the hint of a Higgs boson seen in the 2011 data. The strongest evidence comes from the H→γγ mode [...]
A couple of us are going to try to live-blog the July 4 Higgs update seminars from CERN. This effort will be subject to the whims of internet connectivity, of course, but we’ll do our best. At the moment we have correspondents on at least three different continents (I [Sean] am at CERN, JoAnne is [...]
Let me make a plea to all science journalist out there: Please don’t call it “the God particle”! That name was invented by Leon Lederman, very much tongue-in-cheek, back in 1993 when he published a rather good popular science book. Leon is an nobel prize winner and devoted much of his life to improving math [...]
The bottom line is: 2.5 standard deviations for all channels 2.9 standard deviations for bb channel alone These are global p-values. The local p-values are 3.0 s.d. and 3.2 s.d. respectively. Below are my notes and comments from the presentation today. The Tevatron Higgs group (CDF+D0) just presented their update – and very nearly final [...]
Last September 30, at 3:00 in the afternoon, after a quarter century of operations, the Tevatron collider at Fermilab collided its final proton and antiproton. Since then, physicists from the two big Tevatron experiments CDF and D0 have been analyzing the complete data set, totaling 10 inverse femtobarns, squeezing every last bit of statistical significance [...]
Update: There’s a slightly expanded version of this post on the NOVA website, where I fill in some background on what the Higgs is and why we care. Greetings from Geneva, where I’m visiting CERN to attend the much-anticipated Higgs update seminars on Wednesday, July 4. We’re all wondering whether they will say the magic [...]
Everyone is excited about the coming ICHEP conference and what will be shown by CMS and ATLAS concerning the search for the standard model Higgs boson. It is hard to be patient, and the urge to indulge one’s curiosity and to speculate without bound is hard to control. One must ask, though: is it really [...]