http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have spent decades searching for the elusive material known as dark matter, which is believed to make up 25 percent of the universe. On Thursday, Dec. 17, a team of physicists including some at MIT reported possible evidence of two dark matter particles in a detector located in a former iron mine in Minnesota. http://www.physorg.com/news180365061.html Physics Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:25:02 EST news180365061 (PhysOrg.com) -- Preparing for as much as a 10-fold increase in the Large Hadron Collider's luminosity within the next decade, U.S. scientists and engineers have demonstrated a powerful magnet based on an advanced superconducting material, which can produce magnetic fields strong enough to focus intense proton beams in the LHC's upgraded interaction regions. http://www.physorg.com/news180185602.html Physics Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:50:01 EST news180185602 (PhysOrg.com) -- The first paper on proton collisions in the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - designed to provide the highest energy ever explored with particle accelerators - is published online this week in the European Physical Journal C. http://www.physorg.com/news180094677.html Physics Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:18:22 EST news180094677 (PhysOrg.com) -- New high-energy particle research by a team working with data from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory further heightens the uncertainty about the exact nature of a key theoretical component of modern physics -- the massive fundamental particle called the Higgs boson. http://www.physorg.com/news179421292.html Physics Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:15:45 EST news179421292 (PhysOrg.com) -- CERN's Large Hadron Collider has today become the world's highest energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV in the early hours of the morning. This exceeds the previous world record of 0.98 TeV, which had been held by the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory`s Tevatron collider since 2001. It marks another important milestone on the road to first physics at the LHC in 2010. http://www.physorg.com/news178781372.html Physics Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:44:16 EST news178781372 (PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from the Japanese-led multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration announced today that over the weekend they detected the first events generated by their newly built neutrino beam at the J-PARC accelerator laboratory in Tokai, Japan. http://www.physorg.com/news178300806.html Physics Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:01:48 EST news178300806 Like surfers on monster waves, electrons can ride waves of plasma to very high energies in a very short distance. Scientists have proven that plasma acceleration works. Now they're developing it as a way to dramatically shrink the size and cost of particle accelerators for science, medicine, industry, and myriad other uses. http://www.physorg.com/news177786729.html Physics Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:13:04 EST news177786729 (PhysOrg.com) -- The first experiments are now underway using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Illuminating objects and processes at unprecedented speed and scale, the LCLS has embarked on groundbreaking research in physics, structural biology, energy science, chemistry and a host of other fields. http://www.physorg.com/news176388048.html Physics Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:10:07 EST news176388048 Using Einstein's theory of special relativity to speedup computer simulations, scientists have designed laser-plasma accelerators with energies of 10 billion electron volts (GeV) and beyond. These systems, which have not been simulated in detail until now, could in the future serve as a compact new technology for particle colliders and energetic light sources. http://www.physorg.com/news176382250.html Physics Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:04:53 EST news176382250 What is it about elite sprinters that gives them the edge over non-sprinters in the 100m dash? Stephen Piazza from the Pennsylvania State University publishes his discovery, in The Journal of Experimental Biology, that the length of an elite sprinter's heel (the distance from the back of the heel to the ankle) is 25 percent shorter in elite athletes than non-sprinters, allowing them to generate more force when sprinting for gold. http://www.physorg.com/news176098750.html Biology Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:21:36 EST news176098750 (PhysOrg.com) -- The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is once again colder than deep space as it is prepared for experiments to resume in late November. http://www.physorg.com/news175243758.html Physics Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:20:01 EST news175243758 (PhysOrg.com) -- The world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), could be used to test the principles behind hyperdrive, a possible future form of spacecraft propulsion that could drive spacecraft at a good fraction of the speed of light. http://www.physorg.com/news174293159.html Physics Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:49:14 EST news174293159 (PhysOrg.com) -- Controlling huge electromagnetic forces that have the potential to destroy the next generation of particle accelerators is the subject of a new paper by a University of Manchester physicist. http://www.physorg.com/news173958592.html Physics Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:50:41 EST news173958592 Clemson University researchers have been awarded a $470,000 National Science Foundation grant to study making plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) more efficient to reduce fossil fuel use. http://www.physorg.com/news173371840.html Technology Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:55:43 EST news173371840 The U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility marked a step forward in the field of advanced particle accelerator technology with the successful test of the first U.S.-built superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) niobium cavity to meet the exacting specifications of the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC). http://www.physorg.com/news172412914.html Physics Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:40:02 EST news172412914 (PhysOrg.com) -- Quarks, the most fundamental constituents of matters, are classified into six species grouped into three generations as predicted by Professors Kobayashi and Maskawa. The purpose of the B factory experiment is to elucidate the fundamental laws of elementary particles by producing B mesons that contain the second heaviest quark (bottom). An international team of researchers at the High Energy Accelerator Research organization (KEK) in Tsukuba, Japan, the "Belle collaboration", has achieved many successes, including the discovery of CP violation in B meson decays and proof of the Kobayashi-Maskawa theory, the discoveries of new decay processes in B decays and D-meson mixing as well as the observation of new resonances. http://www.physorg.com/news171567213.html Physics Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:40:45 EST news171567213 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science, a joint institute of SLAC and Stanford University, have produced a hydrogen-rich alloy that could provide insight into the properties of metallic hydrogen, according to a study published in the August 17 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The work is a step toward materials with revolutionary implications for energy science, enabling lossless power transmission, next-generation particle accelerators and even magnetic levitation. http://www.physorg.com/news170007996.html Physics Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:28:01 EST news170007996 Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US, have performed sophisticated laser measurements to detect the subtle effects of one of nature's most elusive forces - the "weak interaction". Their work, which reveals the largest effect of the weak interaction ever observed in an atom, is reported in Physical Review Letters and highlighted in the August 10th issue of APS's on-line journal Physics. http://www.physorg.com/news169124688.html Physics Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:20:01 EST news169124688 (PhysOrg.com) -- Research on human remains from Kent`s Cavern in Devon has led scientists to believe that humans from the Mesolithic period (after the Ice Age) may have engaged in complex ritualistic burial practices, and possibly cannibalism. http://www.physorg.com/news168867939.html Other Sciences Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:46:18 EST news168867939 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool are constructing highly sensitive detectors as part of an international project to understand the elements that make up the universe. http://www.physorg.com/news168770462.html Physics Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:10:01 EST news168770462 (AP) -- Repairs to two small helium leaks in the world's largest atom smasher will delay the restart of the giant machine another month until November, a spokesman for the operator said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news168180155.html Physics Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:43:42 EST news168180155 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Cheddar Gorge in Somerset was one of the first sites to be inhabited by humans when they returned to Britain near the end of the last Ice Age. According to new radio carbon dating by Oxford University researchers, outlined in the latest issue of Quaternary Science Review, humans were living in Gough's Cave 14,700 years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news167925485.html Other Sciences Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:00:02 EST news167925485 Having outlasted all expectations of its service life, the original mercury target of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), the Department of Energy Office of Science's record-setting neutron science facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is being replaced for the first time. http://www.physorg.com/news167919311.html Physics Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:15:34 EST news167919311 HP today announced the integration of the highly anticipated Six-Core AMD Opteron 2400 Series processor into its family workstations. http://www.physorg.com/news165683615.html Electronics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:14:39 EST news165683615 (PhysOrg.com) -- The world`s largest computing grid has passed its most comprehensive tests to date in anticipation of the restart of the world`s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The successful dress rehearsal proves that the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) is ready to analyze and manage real data from the massive machine. The United States is a vital partner in the development and operation of the WLCG, with 15 universities and three U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories from 11 states contributing to the project. http://www.physorg.com/news165680293.html Physics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:50:01 EST news165680293 This image of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope shows a part of the roughly circular supernova remnant known as RCW 86. http://www.physorg.com/news165682009.html Space & Earth Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:47:47 EST news165682009 (PhysOrg.com) -- At a recent physics seminar at the Department of Energy`s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab physicist Pat Lukens of the CDF experiment announced the observation of a new particle, the Omega-sub-b (Ωb). The particle contains three quarks, two strange quarks and a bottom quark (s-s-b). It is an exotic relative of the much more common proton and has about six times the proton`s mass. http://www.physorg.com/news165491925.html Physics Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:59:17 EST news165491925 The element 112, discovered at the Centre for Heavy Ion Research (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung) in Darmstadt, has been officially recognized as a new element by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). IUPAC confirmed the recognition of element 112 in an official letter to the head of the discovering team, Professor Sigurd Hofmann. The letter furthermore asks the discoverers to propose a name for the new element. Their suggestion will be submitted within the next weeks. In about 6 months, after the proposed name has been thoroughly assessed by IUPAC, the element will receive its official name. The new element is approximately 277 times heavier than hydrogen, making it the heaviest element in the periodic table. http://www.physorg.com/news163849658.html Chemistry Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:00:41 EST news163849658 (PhysOrg.com) -- True muonium, a long-theorized but never-seen atom, might be observed in future experiments, thanks to recent theoretical work by researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Arizona State University. True muonium was first theorized more than 50 years ago, but until now no one had uncovered an unambiguous method by which it could be created and observed. http://www.physorg.com/news162815271.html Physics Fri, 29 May 2009 11:28:32 EST news162815271 Austria is pulling out of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Science Minister Johannes Hahn announced Thursday, citing budget concerns. http://www.physorg.com/news160924325.html Physics Thu, 07 May 2009 14:13:01 EST news160924325