• Introducing… the Particle Olympics!

    Updated: 2012-07-30 16:00:25
    With the 2012 summer Olympics underway, we at symmetry have just one question on our minds: Which particle would win which Olympic event?

  • Fermilab deputy director judges Google Science Fair

    Updated: 2012-07-27 19:24:00
    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.

  • Physics doo-wop group’s last stand

    Updated: 2012-07-27 15:00:54
    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.

  • Endeavour crew members visit CERN to commemorate year of AMS

    Updated: 2012-07-26 20:32:45
    Five U.S. astronauts spoke at CERN Wednesday to celebrate a year of data-collection by the largest experiment in space.

  • Scenes from July 4: The discovery heard around the world

    Updated: 2012-07-26 16:26:53
    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.

  • A little light (or rather, massive) Higgs music

    Updated: 2012-07-24 17:56:21
    Thanks to a few creative scientists, the recent discovery of a Higgs-like particle is music to more than just particle physicists’ ears.

  • Precious cargo: Dark matter experiment set to move underground

    Updated: 2012-07-23 21:10:59
    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.

  • Department of Energy advances Fermilab’s Mu2e experiment

    Updated: 2012-07-20 20:00:09
    Last week, Fermilab’s planned Mu2e experiment passed the second step of the Department of Energy's five-step approval process, only about a month after the DOE’s initial review.

  • Guest Post: Higgs ? 126 GeV, Said The Four Colour Theorem

    Updated: 2012-07-20 18:06:34
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  • Most sensitive dark-matter detector constrains search for WIMPs

    Updated: 2012-07-20 16:47:14
    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.

  • Large Synoptic Survey Telescope nears final design phase

    Updated: 2012-07-19 01:00:47
    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.

  • My Two Pieces On The Higgs

    Updated: 2012-07-06 10:40:37
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  • Seeing the Higgs Everywhere

    Updated: 2012-07-06 09:50:08
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  • Higgs Live Blogging 7 - The ATLAS Seminar

    Updated: 2012-07-04 08:55:58
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  • Happy Higgs Day?

    Updated: 2012-07-04 08:31:30
    Asymptotia Amsterdam Slow Writing Happy Higgs Day Published on July 4, 2012 in research science and work 6 Comments Dont forget that today there will be big announcements of the latest results from the LHC about the search for the Higgs and some of us are hoping for news about what might be the beginning of the search for what lies beyond There are so many live blogs , so follow a few Like Resonances for an expert view , Matt Strassler for another expert view , or Quantum Diaries for a non-expert . view Exciting update Looks like it is a strong enough set of results , statistically , to call the Higgs discovered Hurrah And with possible hints of new physics too Excellent Further update A CERN press release is to be found here Also , looks like any deviation from the standard model Higgs ,

  • Higgs Boson, Where Is The Queue ?

    Updated: 2012-07-04 05:08:29
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