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Cosmic rays detected deep underground reveal secrets of the upper atmosphere

Cosmic rays detected deep underground reveal secrets of the upper atmosphere (Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cosmic-rays detected half a mile underground in a disused U.S. iron-mine can be used to detect major weather events occurring 20 miles up in the Earth's upper atmosphere, a new study has revealed.





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Superstring theory useful for experimental physics

Superstring theory useful for experimental physics

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (26) | comments 9

Superstring theory aims to explain the laws of physics from extremely small strings in various states. Theoretical superstring theory is therefore normally not considered to be particularly relevant for practical ...


Why matter matters in the universe

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 28, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (50) | comments 6

A new physics discovery explores why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe. The latest research findings, which involved significant contributions from physicists at the University of Melbourne, have been recently ...


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.


The hunt for the Higgs steps up a gear

The hunt for the Higgs steps up a gear

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 28, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (26) | comments 2

The hunt for the Higgs boson, the most highly sought-after particle in physics, received a boost this month with the release of two new results from the Tevatron particle collider at the US Department of Energy's ...


A 'Golden Channel' for New Physics

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 15, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (60) | comments 5

A group of physicists has dubbed a particular particle decay, the decay of the Bs meson into a neutral kaon and neutral antikaon, as a “golden channel” for new physics, suggesting that probing and studying the decay could ...


Physicists testing Nobel-winning theory

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- Soeren Prell and a team of Iowa State University researchers are part of an international research team testing a theory that led to a share of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for Japanese researchers Makoto ...


Analog of cosmological particle creation

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 03, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (69) | comments 6

“In cosmology there’s this quantum effect,” Ralf Schützhold tells PhysOrg.com. “In the universe, there is a ground state, where it is empty. But if the universe starts to expand or contract, the vacuum is distorted, no lon ...


Fermilab's CDF observes Omega-sub-b baryon

Fermilab's CDF observes Omega-sub-b baryon

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 8

(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, ...


Opposites interfere

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 26, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (18) | comments 0

In a classic physics experiment, photons (light particles), electrons, or any other quantum particles are fired, one at a time, at a sheet with two slits cut in it that sits in front of a recording plate. For photons, a photographic ...


New Limits on the Origin of Dark Matter

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 21

(PhysOrg.com) -- Determining the identity of dark matter, the mysterious stuff thought to make up the vast majority of matter in the universe, is one of the most fundamental challenges facing modern physics. Through theory ...



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