Items tagged with particle

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Small Satellite Takes on Large Thunderstorms Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 - 14:07:09 - Anuradha Menon Firefly, it's called, this new small satellite mission sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). It's designed to help solve the mystery of... read more

When A Good Nanoparticle Goes Bad Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 - 12:59:49 - Anuradha Menon Researchers at Cornell University recently made a major breakthrough when they invented a method to test and demonstrate a long-held hypothesis that... read more

Gold Nanostar is Shape of the Future Friday, November 7th, 2008 - 16:14:10 - Anuradha Menon Rods, cones, cubes and spheres – move aside. Tiny gold stars, smaller than a billionth of a meter, may hold the promise for new approaches to medical... read more

Searching for Primordial Antimatter Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 - 12:25:03 - Anuradha Menon Scientists are on the hunt for evidence of antimatter - matter's arch nemesis - leftover from the very early Universe. New results using data from... read more

Fuzziness On the Road To Physics Thursday, October 9th, 2008 - 14:02:15 - Anuradha Menon Leave it to hypothesized gravity to weigh down what physicists have thought for 30 years. If theoretical physicists, led by the University of... read more

First Images of Fuel-Cell Nanoparticles Monday, October 6th, 2008 - 14:06:18 - Anuradha Menon In a step toward developing better fuel cells for electric cars and more, engineers at MIT and two other institutions have taken the first images of... read more

World's Biggest Computing Grid Launched Saturday, October 4th, 2008 - 16:31:57 - Anuradha Menon The world's largest computing grid is ready to tackle mankind's biggest data challenge from the earth's most powerful accelerator. Today, three weeks... read more

First Beam of Zooming Protons at LHC Saturday, September 13th, 2008 - 16:50:35 - Anuradha Menon Scientists today sent the first beam of protons zooming at nearly the speed of light around the 17-mile Large Hadron Collider (LHC).The LHC, located... read more

Fermilab Discover 'Doubly Strange' Particle Saturday, September 6th, 2008 - 09:10:07 - Anuradha Menon Physicists of the DZero experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new particle made of... read more

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