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Out Of Sight - From Quarks To Molecules
Monday, October 5th, 2009 - Anuradha Menon
There are two kinds of quarks (physicists call them flavors of quarks) that are found in normal matter. These are the UP...

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Can the LHC Swallow Earth? (Another Look)

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 - 10:31:54 - Anuradha Menon

Nestled 570 feet beneath the Alps on the Swiss-French border is the world’s largest physics experiment — the Large Hadron Collider. Constructed for...

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...

Antimatter Bounces Off Matter
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 - Roni Barr
A team of Italian researchers, part of the OBELIX collaboration, used data taken from CERN, the European particle physics...

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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...

Moving Quarks Help Solve Proton Spin Puzzle

Saturday, September 13th, 2008 - 10:04:49 - Anuradha Menon

New theory work at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has shown that more than half of the spin of the...

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...

Final LHC Synchronization Test a Success

Friday, August 29th, 2008 - 18:09:31 - Anuradha Menon

CERN has today announced the success of the second and final test of the Large Hadron Collider’s beam synchronization systems which will allow the...

Risk of Osteoporosis-Related Fractures

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 - 13:51:02 - Ehud Rattner

Patients who use proton pump inhibitors for 7 or more years to treat reflux, peptic ulcers and other conditions are at greater risk of...

Proton-Electron Mass Constant for 6 Billion Years
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 - Shalhevet Bar-Asher
Research carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy has shown there has been practically no variation in...