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Edit: Today’s launch has been postponed due to heater issues.
In about four hours, the Endeavor space shuttle is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center on its final mission, carrying with it what will be the largest physics experiment to blast into space.
Watch the event live via a CERN webcast or follow the [...]
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The AMS particle detector will take off on 29 April 2011 at 21.47 CEST onboard the very last mission of the space Shuttle Endeavour. AMS, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, will then be installed on the International Space Station from where it will explore the Universe for a period of over 10 years. AMS will address some of the most exciting mysteries of modern physics, looking for antimatter and dark matter in space, phenomena that have remained elusive up to now.
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Building and installing one of the world’s largest digital cameras to solve the mystery of dark energy requires the collaboration of scientists and industry from across the globe. The Dark Energy Survey’s combination of survey area and depth will far surpass the scope of previous projects and provide researchers for the first time with four search techniques in one powerful instrument.
Two massive stars in the Milky Way,
both about 9,000 light years from Earth.
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The physics world was buzzing yesterday, April 6, about the rumor of a discovery at Fermilab's Tevatron that, according to physicists, could transform all of high energy physics. Fermilab Today published the following summary of the result today.