Albert Einstein’s revolutionary general theory of relativity describes gravity as a curvature in the fabric of spacetime. Mathematicians at University of California, Davis have come up with a new way to crinkle that fabric while pondering shockwaves. “We show that spacetime cannot be locally flat at a point where two shockwaves collide,” says Blake Temple, [...]
With the 2012 summer Olympics underway, we at symmetry have just one question on our minds: Which particle would win which Olympic event?
On July 23, Fermilab Deputy Director Young-Kee Kim joined 14 other scientists, science journalists and industry executives to judge the Google Science Fair in Palo Alto, California.
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.
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.
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 Friday , July 06, 2012 First the Higgs , Next Supersymmetry UPDATE : Hooper and Buckley's paper has been posted to the ArXiv and can be found here Though the discovery of the Higgs boson is less than a week old , scientists are already looking for the next important discovery to come out of Geneva’s Large Hadron Collider Since Wednesday , there’s been a flurry of papers posted to the ArXiv digging deep into the released data , looking for hints of new physics . Two researchers at Fermilab may have found just such a clue hidden in the behavior of the Higgs boson . Dan Hooper and Matthew Buckley at Fermilab , write in an upcoming paper that they’ve found evidence of the supersymmetric partner of the top quark in the decays of the Higgs boson . Scientists have
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