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Particle physics

IceCube observatory

A new book recounts the amazing history of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Science

IceCube’s ability to spot where neutrinos come from provides a powerful new tool for understanding many mysteries of the universe.

hadron supercollider

In small collisions, scientists find big new physics questions

Technology

In physics, failure brings almost as much excitement as success

Science

Physicists anxiously await ‘God particle’ announcement from CERN

Environment

Tantalizing indications, but no proof, of existence of Higgs boson — ‘God particle’

Environment
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Einstein’s Law of Relativity challenged by experiment

Environment

One of the world’s foremost laboratories says they’ve found subatomic particles called neutrinos that travel even faster than the speed of light.

Discovering dark matter

Environment

We could be on the verge of solving one of the biggest cosmological mysteries in our time — the discovery of dark matter.

Have Scientists Finally Found Dark Matter?

Dark matter makes up more than 80 percent of the matter in the universe. But up until now, it’s eluded scientists. Yesterday, however, NASA announced a possible breakthrough. A particle detector mounted on the International Space Station may have detected dark matter. The detector is called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and it measures cosmic ray […]

Our ‘Unstable’ Universe Could Be Wiped Out by a New One

The recent discovery of the Higgs Boson has produced some unfathomable – and frightening – modes of thought in the world of astrophysics. A new idea coming out of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science has our universe being swallowed up by a new universe born out of an […]

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