Members of the CMS collaboration announced the experiment’s first discovery of a new particle today.
The Ξ (Xi) baryons, like all baryons, are particles made of three quarks. The first X baryon was discovered in cosmic rays in the 50s. More recently, Fermilab experiments discovered the Ξb particles, which contain a beauty or b quark. This week, CMS has reported the observation of a new excited state of the neutral [...]
A project that lets citizen volunteers contribute to scientists' search for gravitational waves, theoretical ripples in the fabric of space-time, has expanded its efforts -- with impressive results.
: SUBSCRIBE TO NEW SCIENTIST Select a country United Kingdom USA Canada Australia New Zealand Russian Federation Other Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Early galaxies are strangely stuffed with stars 17:59 26 April 2012 Picture of the Day Lisa Grossman , reporter Image : NASA ESA Anderson van der Marel In this image of the Milky Way star cluster Omega Centauri bright stars have been coloured blue , faint ones red . For more distant galaxies , though , faint
Manik Surtani is a senior software engineer at Red Hat Inc. Involved in the creation of open source technology, he is well placed to tell students at the Royal Institution about the social impacts of new technologies. The talk includes cloud computing, smart phones and social networks. The talk was part of a series from [...]
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A flowchart I put together for The Particle at the End of the Universe. Feel free to spread around, with appropriate attribution. Sorry for the tiny writing, there are a lot of particles! Click to embiggen and get a legible version.
Perched high atop Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will take the largest, fastest, most detailed pictures of the Southern Hemisphere’s night sky. With these images, researchers around the world will seek to reveal the nature of dark matter and dark energy—and to answer a host of other questions in [...]
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The team working on the Large Area Telescope has discovered that most gamma rays detected by LAT cannot be attributed to individual point sources.
Ever wonder what physics sounds like? Composer and network engineer Domenico Vicinanza recently created a musical score that mimics the tracks of subatomic particles.
The world’s two most mature proposals for a collider complementary to the Large Hadron Collider are joining collaborative forces. The two proposed electron-positron collider projects, the Compact Linear Collider Study and the International Linear Collider, have traditionally been viewed as casual rivals–both in the running to be built as the future complement to CERN’s proton-smashing [...]
The DZero experiment at Fermilab’s Tevatron collider has confirmed the discovery of a new particle from an experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. In December, scientists on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC announced that they had unearthed in their data a never-before-seen particle composed of two bottom quarks, called Chi-b (P3). The DZero collaboration [...]
Neutrino physicists in the U.S. have begun to regroup after a disappointing setback last week, when they learned the Department of Energy would not support the budget of a major proposed experiment. The silver lining, as they see it, is that they have the chance to reevaluate their plans and find a path forward. DOE [...]
Hot on the heels of the Daya Bay experiment's completion of one of the most difficult measurements in neutrino physics, a Korean experiment has produced its own measurement confirming the earlier results.
Zooming around the LHC, colliding at unprecedentedly high energies: 8 trillion electron volts total, in comparison with last year’s 7 TeV. The ultimate goal is to reach an amazing 14 TeV, although that won’t happen soon — the plan is to shut down for quite a while after the end of this year’s run, tighten [...]
A new experiment clocked in neutrinos at the speed of light, and not faster, and scientists say that if the particle were faster, there would be no credible model to explain the phenomenon.