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Queen Mary scientists shed light on a mysterious particle

Queen Mary scientists shed light on a mysterious particle

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Queen Mary, University of London have begun looking deep into the Earth to study some of nature's weirdest particles; neutrinos.


Going underground for a climate solution

Going underground for a climate solution

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hoping to help fix the Earth's atmosphere, Catherine Peters recently found herself 4,100 feet underground.


Theorists propose a new way to shine -- and a new kind of star

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

Dying, for stars, has just gotten more complicated. For some stellar objects, the final phase before or instead of collapsing into a black hole may be what a group of physicists is calling an electroweak star.


Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays

Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A thin rain of charged particles continually bombards our atmosphere from outer space. The mysterious particles were first detected 100 years ago but until 10 years ago when a new type of ...


Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (29) | comments 29

(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 ...


First Neutrino Events Observed at T2K Near Detector

First Neutrino Events Observed at T2K Near Detector

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (25) | comments 3

(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 ...


A line on string theory

A line on string theory

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (47) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Harvard theoretical physicist has discussed with scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland the possibility that they may discover a theorized "stau" particle, with a lifetime ...


Stars Fueled by Dark Matter Could Hold Secrets to the Universe

Stars Fueled by Dark Matter Could Hold Secrets to the Universe

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (58) | comments 44

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first stars in the universe may have been very different from the stars we see today, yet they may hold clues to understanding some of the mysterious features of the universe. These "dark ...


Physicist wins Packard Fellowship

Physicist wins Packard Fellowship

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT physicist Pablo Jarillo-Herrero has won a 2009 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, an award he will use to study a new class of materials that could have applications in the semiconductor ...


Physicists discover novel electronic properties in two-dimensional carbon structure

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Rutgers researchers have discovered novel electronic properties in two-dimensional sheets of carbon atoms called graphene that could one day be the heart of speedy and powerful electronic devices.


Grant to Design Neutrino Detector

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(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.


European astroparticle physicists to celebrate 100 years of cosmic ray experiments

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

From 10 to 17 October 2009, in France, Italy, Spain and many other countries, astroparticle physicists will meet the public to reveal some of the most exciting mysteries of the Universe. Within the first European Week of ...


Prototype developed to detect dark matter

Prototype developed to detect dark matter

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2

A team of researchers from the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR, Spain) and the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS, in France) has developed a "scintillating bolometer", a device that the scientists will ...


Invading black holes explain cosmic flashes

Invading black holes explain cosmic flashes

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (25) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Black holes are invading stars, providing a radical explanation to bright flashes in the universe that are one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy today.


PAMELA

Has PAMELA Already Seen Dark Matter?

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 7

(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 ...