Michael Wilson, 29, could be considered a member of the Millennial generation. So when he got interested in string theory, he had a very Millennial response: He decided to make a music video about it.
This month, about 30 instructors and 50 students traveled from around Africa and the rest of the world to gather at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology for three and a half weeks of training in physics and computing.
Scientists at the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory in Argentina recently tested the theory that governs the behavior of protons, the particles that collide in the Large Hadron Collider, at energies inaccessible at the LHC.
In the past year, scientists have bulked up their toolkits with new ways to tweak and study a state of matter 100,000 times hotter than the interior of the Sun – the quark-gluon plasma.
The same trend has dominated throughout accelerator history – bigger and faster is better. And yet, nuclear physicists at Michigan State are trying to slow particles down.
Thanks to a new phased construction plan, the proposed Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment is back on track and ready to advance to the next stage of the U.S. Department of Energy approval process.