Before next week’s holiday, we at Symmetry Breaking want to know about your affair with physics. Send us a love letter (or “Dear John” letter) about your research, a playful pun about a physical concept, or a story about a connection you’ve made with a fellow scientist. Post your comments here or send them to scharley@fnal.gov. We will publish our favorites on Feb. 14.
: Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating new Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Colourful cancer cells snag micro-photography prize 16:49 2 February 2012 Picture of the Day Flora Graham , deputy editor , newscientist.com Image : Geoffrey Grandjean , MD Anderson Cancer Center GE Healthcare An ovarian cancer researcher found the beauty in a horrific disease to win the 2011 IN Cell Analyzer Image Competition . Geoffrey Grandjean from the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston , Texas captured this image
Editor’s note: This article comes from US LHC intern Amy Dusto, who is currently working as a communicator at CERN. She is introducing LHC Lunch, a series of articles and videos she created while getting to know some of the members of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider from U.S. institutions. The busy cafeteria known [...]
: Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating new Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Spitzer peers through the dust into star nursery 12:59 2 February 2012 Picture of the Day Space Lisa Grossman , physical sciences and space reporter Image : NASA JPL-Caltech Havard-Smithsonian CfA This churning cloud of dust and gas marks one of the richest regions of star formation in the Milky Way . The region , dubbed Cygnus X for its location in the constellation Cygnus the Swan is the birthplace of the largest
Since 2000, the three Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS I, II, and III) have surveyed well over a quarter of the night sky, producing the biggest 3-D color map of the Universe ever made. Now, scientists have used this visual information for the most accurate computation yet of how matter clumped together – from a time when the universe was only half its present age until now.
Most Fermilab personnel have learned to ignore the ubiquitous booms, hums, growls and crackles of Fermilab machinery. But composer Mason Bates places these sounds center stage in his new piece "Alternative Energy."
: skip to main skip to sidebar Neutrino Blog Swimming in a sea of the shyest , strangest and smallest things in our Universe : . Neutrinos Pages Home My Homepage Saturday , 28 January 2012 From Tokai to Kamioka Once More After the earthquake which hit the East coast of Japan in March of last year the Tokai to Kamioka T2K experiment was taken out of action But , with the hard work and determination of many scientists and engineers , just 10 months on it is almost back to 100 operation and rearing to . go The J-PARC Proton Accelerator , courtesy of . KEK Many aspects of the experiment that had to be repaired or rebuilt the largest and most complex element was the proton particle accelerator pictured left used to produce the beam of neutrinos . Magnets , used to accelerate and bend the
Fun post for everyone today. In response to last week’s post on describing KEK Laboratory’s discovery of additional exotic hadrons, I got an absolutely terrific question from a QD reader: Surprisingly, the answer to “How does an electron-positron collider produce quarks if neither particle contains any?” all begins with the inconspicuous photon. No Firefox, I [...]
The only laboratory in the United States dedicated entirely to particle physics recently released its plan for the next two decades.
This week the Earth has seen some increased magnetic activity in the upper atmosphere, and that means we got to see aurore! Across Northern Europe and the Northern USA people looked to the skies to see the northern lights. An aurora is one of the most beautiful sights in the natural world, and a phenomenon [...]
This article first appeared in Fermilab Today on Jan. 24. Despite the biting cold and snow, scientists and Fermilab personnel gathered outside to break ground for Fermilab’s new Liquid Argon Test Facility. The facility, expected to be completed spring 2013, will house liquid-argon based experiments. Scientists have speculated since the 1980s that liquid argon could [...]
Editor’s note: One of the bonuses of Fermilab having much of its scientific infrastructure underground is that it allows for a wealth of open space on the 6,800-acre campus. Fermilab and volunteers from neighboring communities use that space to create havens of restored native habitats to help wildlife flourish. So far, more than 1,100 acres [...]
Daresbury’s high-intensity proton accelerator, called EMMA, gains its technological edge through an accelerator concept nearly abandoned a half century ago. 
Submissions opened today for Google’s second annual science fair. Last year’s winner earned a trip to CERN laboratory in Europe, among other things. This year not one, but two particle physics institutions will contribute to the fair. Engineer Steve Myers, director of accelerators and technology at CERN, and physicist Young-Kee Kim, deputy director of Fermilab, will each participate on the final judging panel. The grand prize winner will receive a trip to visit both labs.
: skip to main skip to sidebar Experimental Particle Physicists at Imperial College London Undergraduate and Postgraduate students , Research Associates and Staff at the Imperial College London High Energy Physics Group . everyone is invited to add comments 25 December 2011 Happy Christmas from the Imperial College High Energy Physics Group Post by Yoshi Uchida The other day we had our HEP group party as we do every year , with about 80 group members and guests participating . The dinner buffet is always the centrepiece of the party , with dozens of hand-made dishes and puddings brought in by group members for everyone to enjoy . The first year PhD students provided the main entertainment for the party , with their Pin the Higgs game , where we all queued up in front of a Higgs Boson mass