-- Antimatter mysteries 2: How do you make antimatter? -- The great data explosion -- Big Bang machine detectors will be 'even more perfect' -- Particle physics study finds new data for extra Z-bosons and potential fifth force of nature -- That Other Theory - Loop Quantum Gravity -- Officials to break ground on cutting-edge international physics lab in Northern Minnesota

For years, the Britney Spears Guide to Semiconductor Physics has been floating around the Web intriguing, amusing, troubling, or infuriating different people. Doing one better, pop star Lady Gaga is now immortalized in the name of a published physics paper.

As of today you can see and download the latest print issue of symmetry. This issue looks at many of the varied uses of accelerators in society. Although accelerators were typically created for basic physics research, they are key components of many medical and industrial applications now.

Students from 17 African countries came together for the rare opportunity to learn about particle physics this month. Some African students have earned advanced science degrees but are looking for the specialized training in particle physics and its associated applications not usually offered on their own continent. The first African School of Fundamental Physics and its Applications in Stellenbosch, South Africa, provided that training and financially supported some African students.

In a fun Q&A piece, the HHMI Bulletin asked four researchers "What 'For Dummies' book are you most qualified to write?"

Members of the CERN choir sing an ode the Higgs boson to the tune of "The Hippopotamus Song" by Flanders and Swann.

A contest inspires breakthroughs in clear communication.

No one knows how neutrinos from the sun could interact with radioactive materials to change their rate of decay. "It doesn't make sense according to conventional ideas," one of the scientists proposing the idea says. Another adds, "What we're suggesting is that something that doesn't really interact with anything is changing something that can't be changed."

It was a good week for mathematical physics. Three of the four winners of the 2010 Fields Medal, considered the Nobel Prize for mathematics, were honored for studies in the field.

At the 38th annual SLAC Summer Institute, more than 150 graduate students, postdocs and researchers got an in-depth look at "Neutrinos: Nature's Mysterious Messengers" -- and built social bonds that will sustain them throughout their careers.

Geneva, 18 August 2010. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), an experiment that will search for antimatter and dark matter in space, leaves CERN next Tuesday on the next leg of its journey to the International Space Station. The AMS detector is being transported from CERN to Geneva International Airport in preparation for its planned departure from Switzerland on 26 August, when it will be flown to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on board a US Air Force Galaxy transport aircraft.

Geneva, 26 July 2010. First results from the LHC at CERN1 are being revealed at ICHEP, the world's largest international conference on particle physics, which has attracted more than 1000 participants to its venue in Paris. The spokespersons of the four major experiments at the LHC - ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb - are today presenting measurements from the first three months of successful LHC operation at 3.5 TeV per beam, an energy three and a half times higher than previously achieved at a particle accelerator.

Batavia, Ill.- New constraints on the elusive Higgs particle are more stringent than ever before. Scientists of the CDF and DZero collider experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab revealed their latest Higgs search results today (July 26) at the International Conference on High Energy Physics, held in Paris from July 22-28. Their results rule out a significant fraction of the allowed mass range established by earlier experiments.

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: skip to main skip to sidebar Axitronics Dark energy solved By giving neutrino there own type of electric and magnetic forces . The force is known as the axial force , thus the title , axitronics , as the equivalent of electronics for . neutrinos Wednesday , 14 July 2010 Further Solar Neutrino Mysteries Scientists have known how the Sun shines for quite a while , thermonuclear fusion was well established as was the so called proton proton chain in which four protons , from hydrogen atoms are converted into Helium nuclei,2 neutrinos and two positrons . Since neutrinos react rarely enough to mostly pass through all the sun , it would be possible to measure the rate of thermonuclear fusion in the sun , by how many neutrino where captured in a lab on earth . Yet when the homestake experiment

LHC and high energy physics: latest results and future prospects What are the latest results in the search for the Higgs boson? How are LHC experiments progressing? What are the first clues of the existence of dark matter? What is the latest on neutrinos? CNRS/IN2P3 (1) and CEA invite you to attend the press conference : "LHC and high energy physics: latest results and future prospects" When? Monday 26 July 2010 Time? 1pm Paris time (CEST) Where? at the Palais des Congrès (Salle Maillot) 2 Place de la Porte Maillot - 75017 Paris, France (Underground line 1 - Porte Maillot-Palais des Congrès, Regional railway line RER C Neuilly-Porte Maillot-Palais des Congrès)

Just one line here to mention that since May there is a new blog out there – a temporary blog that will cover the end of July event in Paris – the International Conference on High Energy Physics -, how we get there, and the aftermath. The effort includes several well-known bloggers in high-energy physics, [...]

The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) today announced the award of its Young Scientist Prizes in Particle Physics. The awards have been made to: Florencia Canelli, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, for her pioneering contribution to the identification and precision measurements of rare phenomenon through the use of advanced analysis techniques to separate very small signals from large background processes at the Tevatron collider.

Menlo Park, Calif. - Dr. Jonathan Dorfan has been named president-elect of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University. Dorfan is a SLAC professor of physics and former director of the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, now renamed SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. When OIST, a new institute in Okinawa, Japan, receives accreditation-expected in late 2011-and formally becomes a university, he will become the university's first president and CEO of the OIST School Corporation.

8 July 2010 - Picture this: For the first time, amateur photographers around the world collide with the past, present and future of particle physics. Five of the world's leading particle physics laboratories will make the image a reality when they join together to host a Particle Physics Photowalk on 7 August. More than 200 people will have the rare opportunity to photograph state-of-the-art accelerators and detectors in all their beauty and complexity. Photographers will benefit from special behind-the-scenes access to laboratories in Asia, Europe and North America, with tours tailored to the creative eye.