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Mystery Particles on Mars Revealed by Curiosity’s Junk

Sifting through soil on Mars, NASA’s rover Curiosity paused to take a picture – and exposed its own bad behaviour. The shot included a bright object lying in the Martian dirt, and a closer look suggests that the rover is guilty of littering: it appears the object is a piece of plastic wrapper that has…

Space & Spaceflight Victoria Jaggard - New Scientist Oct 17

Why Those Faster-Than-Light Particles Might Be a Good Bet to Hedge Against

Yes, okay, it’s terribly exciting that Einstein’s theory of relativity has been put on notice by some perky faster-than-light neutrinos. But science, I’ve been burned before by your outsized enthusiasms. So here’s a great way to hedge my bets. https://gizmodo.com/faster-than-light-particles-could-wreck-einsteins-relat-5843006 Okay, so maybe I don’t have an xkcd-sized bankroll to bet you $200 that this…

Physics & Chemistry Brian Barrett Sep 23

Sunday Project: Wine Bottle-Sized Subatomic Particle Accelerator

Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) televisions may be more than on their way to chill with the dodo bird in the land of extinction, but that doesn’t mean the DIY sect amongst us can’t enjoy its reto goodness anyway. Take this latest MAKE project, for example. Using a wine bottle and a few other necessary components,…

Tech News Jack Loftus Aug 21

Fermilab’s Claim of New Subatomic Particle Discredited by Rival Team

Fermilab believed they hit the motherlode this past April after findings from the Tevatron particle accelerator suggested a new subatomic particle was out there. A second, independent group has analyzed that same data and claim there is no new particle. https://gizmodo.com/have-scientists-discovered-a-new-elementary-particle-5789701 The research team DZero has a detector of their own in a different section…

Physics & Chemistry Adrian Covert Jun 13

What Important Scientific Breakthrough “Stirs Considerable Passion in the Breasts of Physicists”?

If proven true, the theoretical physicist John Pendry’s hyperbolic statement won’t just apply to physicists’ breasts, as who isn’t excited by the suggestion that empty space is far from empty. In fact, it might be possible to make sparks fly. Literally. Taking on the quantum theory that says a vacuum has heaps of particles floating…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 6

Alleged LHC Memo Hints Scientists Have Found the Elusive Higgs Boson

Did scientists running the massive Large Hadron Collider finally discover what Einstein eloquently hypothesized was the “mind of God” for the last 30 years of his life? Possibly, yes, if a memo leaked this week turns out to be legitimate. The memo, which it should definitely be noted has not been properly vetted or undergone…

Physics & Chemistry Jack Loftus Apr 24

Have Scientists Discovered a New Elementary Particle?

Researchers at Fermilab, who run the Tevatron particle accelerator, say they’ve discovered a new particle “anomaly,” leading people to think they may have uncovered a new elementary particle or new force of nature. But those working on the project are playing it safe, merely stating that the data is interesting. While it’s definitely not the…

Physics & Chemistry Adrian Covert Apr 6

Watch The Microwaves Inside A Microwave

Microwaves don’t just use magic to heat up food, they use real microwaves too. Here’s what those invisible microwaves look like. Zeke Kossover built a grid of tiny neon lamps inside a sheet of acrylic. He explains how this will work: Microwaves are invisible, so you can’t see them inside microwave oven, but their presence…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 20

What Would Happen if You Stuck Your Hand in the Large Hadron Collider Stream?

The Large Hadron Collider is slinging 300 trillion protons at 99.9999991% of the speed of light. It could answer momentous scientific mysteries of our universe. But what if you jam your hand into it? Watch scientists struggle to answer. This question was posed to a group of physicists at the University of Nottingham, and, well,…

Physics & Chemistry Sam Biddle Sep 21

Video Analysis Suggests Gulf Spill Could Be Much Worse Than Estimated

As BP continues to come up with schemes to slow the Gulf oil spill, new research by NPR suggests that the leak could be far worse than previously thought. Applying particle image velocimetry—basically a computer program that measures the oil geyser particle by particle—to videos of the underwater leak, researchers concluded that the amount of…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert May 14

Live Webcast of Large Hadron Collider Particle Collisions Happening Now

Tune your tellybox over to this channel now, to view the moment we all get swept into a black hole. Or at the very least, the moment your manager’s ears start steaming with smoke over your laziness. [CERN]

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford Mar 30

Replicating The Start Of The Universe — At 4 Trillion Degrees

Now we know how hot things got when the universe was born. We’ve taken the temperature of a substance that only existed when time first began. It’s an ultrahot, 4-trillion degree “soup” of subatomic particles made from gold. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has succeeded in smashing together gold ions, producing the soup of…

io9 Tim Barribeau Feb 17

The Hills Girls Analyze the Large Hadron Collider

I don’t watch The Hills, but that doesn’t mean I’m not entertained when I see Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt prancing around and pretending they aren’t posing for the cameras: in this clip, Audrina attempts to get scientific with the Big Bang theory and the Large Hadron Collider. Her friend explains that the Large Hadron…

Television Erica Ho Oct 30

World’s Fastest Digital Camera

A group of 20 scientists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison have spent the past five years developing this project. The 8-foot-tall camera can take images at less than two-billionths of a second. The project, called the Regional Calorimeter Trigger, is used to take pictures of colliding particles. This $6 million digicam will finally…

Physics & Chemistry Travis Hudson Feb 10

Mystery Particles on Mars Revealed by Curiosity’s Junk

Why Those Faster-Than-Light Particles Might Be a Good Bet to Hedge Against

Sunday Project: Wine Bottle-Sized Subatomic Particle Accelerator

Fermilab’s Claim of New Subatomic Particle Discredited by Rival Team

What Important Scientific Breakthrough “Stirs Considerable Passion in the Breasts of Physicists”?

Alleged LHC Memo Hints Scientists Have Found the Elusive Higgs Boson

Have Scientists Discovered a New Elementary Particle?

Watch The Microwaves Inside A Microwave

What Would Happen if You Stuck Your Hand in the Large Hadron Collider Stream?

Video Analysis Suggests Gulf Spill Could Be Much Worse Than Estimated

Live Webcast of Large Hadron Collider Particle Collisions Happening Now

Replicating The Start Of The Universe — At 4 Trillion Degrees

The Hills Girls Analyze the Large Hadron Collider

World’s Fastest Digital Camera

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