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(AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher made another leap forward Monday by circulating beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time in the $10 billion machine after more than a year of repairs, organizers said. http://www.physorg.com/news178198886.html Physics Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:42:04 EST news178198886 (AP) -- Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs. http://www.physorg.com/news178024871.html Physics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:21:52 EST news178024871 (PhysOrg.com) -- A consortium led by UC Davis physics professor Robert Svoboda will design the world's largest neutrino detector under a $4.4 million contract recently awarded by the National Science Foundation. http://www.physorg.com/news174731920.html Physics Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:49:21 EST news174731920 (PhysOrg.com) -- Back in 2006, PAMELA (a Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics) was launched with the purpose of detecting cosmic radiation and looking for clues pointing to dark matter. And now it's possible that PAMELA might have already spotted dark matter. http://www.physorg.com/news170436249.html Physics Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:24:43 EST news170436249 NASA's space shuttle program is winding down. With only about half a dozen more flights, shuttle crews will put the finishing touches on the International Space Station (ISS), bringing to an end twelve years of unprecedented orbital construction. The icon and workhorse of the American space program will have finished its Great Task. http://www.physorg.com/news169739995.html Physics Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:30:01 EST news169739995 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Milky Way, like many other galaxies, is thought to be embedded in massive, lumpy amounts of dark matter that release gamma rays and other emissions. Although at first these emissions seem too faint to detect, recent observations have shown that they may be stronger than previously thought. In a new study, scientists have developed a model that predicts that gamma rays from hundreds of dark matter clumps should be detectable by the Fermi satellite that was launched in June 2008. http://www.physorg.com/news169121408.html Physics Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:10:36 EST news169121408 (AP) -- When launched to great fanfare nearly a year ago, some feared the Large Hadron Collider would create a black hole that would suck in the world. It turns out the Hadron may be the black hole. http://www.physorg.com/news168879581.html Physics Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:00:23 EST news168879581 (PhysOrg.com) -- 95%. That is the percentage of the known Universe that is missing. As in it is not there. Or at least if it is there, we can't see it. We call this unseen stuff "dark matter". That has been well known for sometime. What is trickier in answering is why? Why is it that 95% of the universe is made up of this so-named "dark matter?" An even trickier question is where? As in where is this dark matter? It is those two questions that have plagued physicists for decades. Dark matter, by its own definition cannot be seen, hence its name. So how do we "see" it, how do we know "where" to look? http://www.physorg.com/news167555163.html Physics Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:00:02 EST news167555163 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers working with data from ESA`s Integral gamma-ray observatory has disproved theories that some form of dark matter explains mysterious radiation in the Milky Way. http://www.physorg.com/news167493073.html Space & Earth Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:40:01 EST news167493073 A team of astrophysicists has solved a mystery that led some scientists to speculate that the distribution of certain gamma rays in our Milky Way galaxy was evidence of a form of undetectable "dark matter" believed to make up much of the mass of the universe. http://www.physorg.com/news166356300.html Space & Earth Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:05:40 EST news166356300 Particle physics saves lives, connects continents through new channels of communication, helps us understand the world around us and inspires tomorrow's leaders. http://www.physorg.com/news162721306.html Physics Thu, 28 May 2009 09:22:15 EST news162721306 (PhysOrg.com) -- Could the Vatican really be destroyed by antimatter stolen from a CERN laboratory? The scheme might work in the plot of Angels & Demons, the most recent Hollywood thriller based on a book by Dan Brown. However, real physicists are using the movie as an opportunity to talk about antimatter in real life - which has many uses other than mass destruction. http://www.physorg.com/news161945252.html Physics Tue, 19 May 2009 09:47:46 EST news161945252 (AP) -- The White House has ordered a complete outside review of NASA's manned space program, including plans to return astronauts to the moon. http://www.physorg.com/news160931608.html Space & Earth Thu, 07 May 2009 16:23:44 EST news160931608 (PhysOrg.com) -- Something in our galactic neighborhood seems to be producing large numbers of high-energy electrons, according to new data gathered by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The electrons could be coming from nearby pulsars -or they could be a longed-for signal of dark matter, the elusive, invisible material thought to make up nearly a quarter of the universe. http://www.physorg.com/news160764898.html Physics Tue, 05 May 2009 17:56:20 EST news160764898 (Physorg.com) -- Since its launch last June, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a new class of pulsars, probed gamma-ray bursts and watched flaring jets in galaxies billions of light-years away. Today at the American Physical Society meeting in Denver, Colo., Fermi scientists revealed new details about high-energy particles implicated in a nearby cosmic mystery. http://www.physorg.com/news160659605.html Space & Earth Mon, 04 May 2009 12:41:03 EST news160659605