• Hunting dark matter with DNA

    Updated: 2012-10-31 15:30:07
    Particle physicists propose a new way to detect dark matter using the molecule of life

  • What else could the Higgs be?

    Updated: 2012-10-30 16:00:00
    On July 4, scientists around the world popped open champagne bottles and toasted the culmination of nearly five decades of research. They had discovered a new particle, one that looked awfully similar to the long-sought Higgs boson. The Higgs boson has for decades been the last missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. But even if the new particle completes the puzzle, some of its pieces still refuse to fit.

  • Dark-matter seekers get help from the DarkSide

    Updated: 2012-10-29 15:13:17
    A treasure trove of dark-matter detectors rests within the deep reaches of Italy's Apennine Mountains as part of Gran Sasso National Laboratory. The mountains shield the detectors from cosmic rays, making them highly sensitive to dark-matter particles.

  • Low Temperature Techniques Course 2012

    Updated: 2012-10-29 00:00:00
    Conference: 19 Dec 2012, Royal Holloway University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom. Organized by IOP Low Temperature Group.

  • Physics of Emergent Behaviour: From Molecules to Individuals

    Updated: 2012-10-29 00:00:00
    Conference: 24 Jun 2013 - 26 Jun 2013, The Grand, Brighton, United Kingdom. Organized by IOP Biological Physics Group.

  • 40th IOP Plasma Physics Conference

    Updated: 2012-10-29 00:00:00
    Conference: 25 Mar 2013 - 28 Mar 2013, University of York, York, United Kingdom. Organized by IOP Plasma Physics Group and the York Plamsa Institute.

  • 9th Conference on Nuclear and Particle Physics (NUPPAC' 13)

    Updated: 2012-10-29 00:00:00
    Conference: 20 Oct 2013 - 24 Oct 2013, Aswan, Egypt. Organized by ENPA.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PhysicsWorldEvents/~4/CE7JFZQe0Bs" height="1" width="1"/

  • PR'13: International conference on photorefreactive effects, materials and devices

    Updated: 2012-10-29 00:00:00
    Conference: 4 Sep 2013 - 6 Sep 2013, The Winchester Hotel, Winchester, United Kingdom. Organized by IOP Optical Group.

  • 10 Years Club of Amsterdam

    Updated: 2012-10-29 00:00:00
    Conference: 6 Dec 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Organized by Club of Amsterdam.

  • Third International Conference on Theoretical Physics

    Updated: 2012-10-28 00:00:00
    Conference: 24 Jun 2013 - 28 Jun 2013, Moscow, Moscow, Russian Federation. Organized by Moscow State Open University.

  • F.O.E. Fifty One Erg

    Updated: 2012-10-26 00:00:00
    Conference: 13 May 2013 - 17 May 2013, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Organized by Jim Kneller; Davide Lazzati.

  • Spin-Orbit Interaction for Light and Matter Waves

    Updated: 2012-10-26 00:00:00
    Workshop: 15 Apr 2013 - 19 Apr 2013, Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Organized by Jörg Götte, Wolfgang Löffler, Andrea Aiello, Konstantin Bliokh.

  • Plasma accelerators: Finding focus

    Updated: 2012-10-25 01:00:00
    Seeking less costly, more efficient means of particle acceleration, physicists are developing new types of machines that zip particles to high energies in short distances. One promising method harnesses the power of plasma, accelerating electron bunches on the crest of plasma waves. Physicists recently discovered a way to measure the focus of such a beam, despite the fact that the plasma would melt traditional diagnostic tools.

  • Orphaned stars linger in dark matter haloes

    Updated: 2012-10-24 20:22:00
    : 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 Cookies Privacy Orphaned stars linger in dark matter haloes 20:22 24 October 2012 Space Joanna Carver , reporter Image : NASA JPL-Caltech Outcast stars stripped away by galaxy mergers may be trapped in the cocoons of dark matter that surround galaxies . If so , these stars would explain seemingly random smatterings of light in the infrared sky , which should illuminate studies of how the first galaxies formed and . grew The

  • SLAC gets a new director

    Updated: 2012-10-24 01:00:00
    SLAC has a new director: X-ray scientist Chi-Chang Kao. Kao currently serves as Associate Laboratory Director for SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource and Acting Associate Laboratory Director for the lab's Photon Science directorate. He will assume the directorship on November 1.

  • Gravitational waves

    Updated: 2012-10-23 18:00:00
    Gravitational waves were first predicted by Albert Einstein almost a century ago, but scientists have yet to observe them directly.

  • Big Idea: Bring Back the "Cold Fusion" Dream | DISCOVER Magazine

    Updated: 2012-10-23 15:35:00
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  • Frontiers of Measurement - Measurement Science and Technology celebrates 90 years

    Updated: 2012-10-23 00:00:00
    Conference: 21 Mar 2013, Insititue of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, 1WB 1NT, UK, United Kingdom. Organized by IOP Publishing.

  • Learning to play the dark matter boogie

    Updated: 2012-10-19 18:00:00
    Scientists from the groups of professors Risa Wechsler and Tom Abel at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, an institute run jointly by Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, are busily crafting enough computer simulation tools to outfit a major stadium tour—if simulations were musical instruments and the KIPAC scientists a supergroup. They’ve managed to meld their different strains of software into the type of melody that dark matter just might dance to.

  • Angry Birds to teach particle physics

    Updated: 2012-10-18 16:28:20
    CERN and Angry Birds-creator Rovio announced last Friday that they will team up to produce a learning program for children between 3 and 8 years old. The partnership will focus on the Angry Birds Playground brand, which is designed to make learning about physics fun and accessible for all ages. It is based on Finland’s national kindergarten curriculum.

  • Accelerators can search for signs of Planck-scale gravity

    Updated: 2012-10-15 15:30:01
    (Phys.org)—Although quantum theory can explain three of the four forces in nature, scientists currently rely on general relativity to explain the fourth force, gravity. However, no one is quite sure of how gravity works at very short distances, in particular the shortest distance of all: the Planck length, or 10-35 m. So far, the smallest distance accessible in experiments is about 10-19 m at the LHC.

  • Nobel honors research by particle trappers

    Updated: 2012-10-09 06:00:00
    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics to two scientists who developed groundbreaking experimental methods that are the first steps toward building a new type of supercomputer known as a quantum computer. Their research has also led to the construction of extremely precise clocks that may replace present-day atomic clocks.

  • Stars dancing around a black hole may test relativity

    Updated: 2012-10-05 19:29:02
    A star found zipping around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy may be just what scientists need to test Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, according to a paper published in today’s issue of Science.

  • Video: Understanding the underpinnings of the universe

    Updated: 2012-10-04 21:40:41
    According to chemistry, everything in the universe is made of about 100 elements, as described by the Periodic Table. According to particle physics, those elements can be further divided into subatomic particles. The Standard Model, physics' answer to the Periodic Table, contains a short list of ingredients for all of matter: six quarks, six leptons and four force-carrying particles. 

  • 'Tunneling of the third kind' experiment could search for new physics

    Updated: 2012-10-03 17:00:01
    (Phys.org)—In an attempt to solve some of the observational puzzles in physics, theorists have proposed a number of new physics models. Several of these models suggest the existence of extremely weakly interacting lightweight particles with tiny fractional electric charges called minicharged particles (MCPs). Constraining the masses of MCPs could help theorists refine their models, but so far it has been very difficult to detect MCPs. Now in a new study, physicists in Germany have proposed a new search for MCPs based on a new tunneling mechanism called "tunneling of the third kind," which could prove very useful in the search for new physics.

  • Panofsky Prize honors researchers' underground hunt for dark matter

    Updated: 2012-10-02 17:03:41
    While some researchers are scanning the heavens with powerful telescopes to detect dark matter or crashing particles together in an effort to create and study its exotic components, Bernard Sadoulet, of the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Blas Cabrera, of Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, have sought the same answers in deep shafts largely shielded from cosmic rays and other unwanted particle "noise."

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  • Milky Way is Surrounded by Huge Halo of Hot Gas

    Updated: 2012-09-24 06:00:00
    Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to find evidence our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for hundreds of thousands of light years.

  • Point-like defects in a quantum fluid behave like magnetic monopoles

    Updated: 2012-09-12 14:20:01
    Javascript is currently not supported or disabled by this browser . Please enable Javascript for full . functionality Science and technology news Home Nanotechnology Physics Space Earth Electronics Technology Chemistry Biology Medicine Health Other Sciences General Physics Condensed Matter Optics Photonics Superconductivity Plasma Physics Soft Matter Quantum Physics Point-like defects in a quantum fluid behave like magnetic monopoles September 12, 2012 by Lisa Zyga Enlarge Experimental set-up showing the injection of a polariton fluid and the formation of half-solitons , which act like magnetic monopoles . Image credit : R . Hivet , et al . 2012 Macmillan Publishers Limited Phys.org No one has ever definitively observed a magnetic monopole , the hypothetical fundamental particle that has

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