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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST, might be able to do it's image calibration and data pre-processing on the fly, and deliver data and images essentially immediately rather than after weeks or months. A new grant from the National Science Foundation will let researchers figure out if they can make it work.
According to October 16th’s, Friday Night Comedy News Podcast from BBC Radio 4, a new theory 
The first paper from the CMS collaboration has been posted to arXiv. (It has also been submitted for review at a real-life journal!) It discusses how aligning part of the detector using a few hundred million cosmic rays was successfully done.
The text of the paper itself is 20-some pages. And the author list? Almost the [...]
There’s a great story on NPR’s Morning Edition about UC Berkeley’s “Nobel Laureate” parking spots. From the article:
Winning a Nobel Prize is difficult enough. But on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, there is something that might be even more difficult to get: a parking space on the central campus.
That’s why Berkeley has [...]
Scientists now think that the Large Hadron Collider is killing itself from the future.
In an article
Big Hole in the Ground, Geneva, Switzerland
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This morning, when the hotel sent up M
The Large Hadron Collider's have been cooled to their superconducting operating temperatures at 1.9 kelvin. The online charts of the temperatures show all eight sectors of the LHC cooled.
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On the lighter side of science.
I applaud you, nameless faulty solderer. I just hope you and the otscientific american register Newsletters SA Community SA Digital Print Subscriber Services online sections News Features Mind Matters In-Depth Reports Fact or Fiction Extreme Tech Ask the Experts Edit This Slide Shows Image Gallery Videos 60-Second Science Podcast 60-Second Earth Podcast 60-Second Psych Podcast Science Talk Podcast Content Partners blogs Scientific American Observations Bering in Mind Extinction Countdown Solar at Home Expeditions scientific american magazine Subscribe INSIDE THIS ISSUE Features News Scan 50, 100 150 Years Ago Antigravity Skeptic Critical Mass Scientific American Perspectives Sustainable Developments Ask the Experts Recommendations Letters From the Editor Special Editions scientific american mind magazine Subscribe INSIDE THIS ISSUE Features Head Lines Perspectives Ask the Brains We're Only Human Illusions Facts and Fictions in Mental Health Reviews and Recommendations Consciousness Redux Mind in Pictures From the Editor Letters Calendar science jobs subscribe Basic Science Biology Chemistry History of Science Math Physics Society Policy Everyday Science Science Education Space Astrophysics Extraterrestrial Life Galaxies Space Exploration Cosmologyscientific american register Newsletters SA Community SA Digital Print Subscriber Services online sections News Features Mind Matters In-Depth Reports Fact or Fiction Extreme Tech Ask the Experts Edit This Slide Shows Image Gallery Videos 60-Second Science Podcast 60-Second Earth Podcast 60-Second Psych Podcast Science Talk Podcast Content Partners blogs Scientific American Observations Bering in Mind Extinction Countdown Solar at Home Expeditions scientific american magazine Subscribe INSIDE THIS ISSUE Features News Scan 50, 100 150 Years Ago Antigravity Skeptic Critical Mass Scientific American Perspectives Sustainable Developments Ask the Experts Recommendations Letters From the Editor Special Editions scientific american mind magazine Subscribe INSIDE THIS ISSUE Features Head Lines Perspectives Ask the Brains We're Only Human Illusions Facts and Fictions in Mental Health Reviews and Recommendations Consciousness Redux Mind in Pictures From the Editor Letters Calendar science jobs subscribe Basic Science Biology Chemistry History of Science Math Physics Society Policy Everyday Science Science Education Space Astrophysics Extraterrestrial Life Galaxies Space Exploration Cosmology
Sigh…
I was reading the New York Times today (ok so I’m a couple of days behind because I was reading it from October 12th) and I came across this article:
The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
To save you some time, the article references an arXiv paper posted in 2007 about backward causation and [...]
Scientists warn that science is sabotaging itself!
Last year the most expensive and, some would argu
The Large Hadron Collider might well be it’s own worst enemy. According to theoretical physic
For three days last week, more than 250 scientists gathered at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss the future of European participation in the field of neutrino physics. The focus was on new accelerator-based neutrinos facilities to be built after 2015, and the R&D necessary over the next few years to determine the direction of neutrino research.
Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located in a tunnel 27 kilometers (17 miles) 
Now time for another installment of “symmetry in physics.” For those of you tuning in late (or who have forgotten what we’ve been discussing), we started out in part 1 with a very general discussion of the symmetries of spacetime and how this constrains the form of our theories. Next, in part 2 we looked [...]
If you had a scientist, a humanist, and a social scientist stranded on a desert island, and room in a life raft for just one of them, which one would you save? Don't base it on personal affection--but on which discipline you think can most benefit the future of humanity.
Nagsimula ang uniberso mula sa isang payak na materya na napitpit sa bilyung libra kada kubiko pulga
Fermilab has asked the general public for suggestions of what to name their next big accelerator--currently known as ProjectX. Deputy Director Young-Kee Kim told the New York Times that Fermilab was accepting suggestions, and since the article ran on October 6, Kim has received over one hundred emailed suggestions.
Fermilab has moved a step closer to constructing a new neutrino experiment. The Department of Energy has given "mission need" approval to a new Booster Neutrino Experiment called MicroBooNE. The experiment will look for potential anomalies in low-energy neutrino interactions, which were first reported by the MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab in 2007.
I recently read an article by Nick and Lizzie that described the “weird” architecture at Fermilab. It mentioned the 15 foot bubble chamber, a detector of yore that has now been turned into the “world’s strangest lawn ornament”. I did my thesis work on an experiment that used this detector; I am probably one [...]
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded today partly for the invention of CCD digital cameras. The largest ever CCDs, at 3.2 gigapixels, will be used as a camera on the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
In September, engineer Jushnu Dwivedi finished a three-month stay at Fermilab's Technical Division as part of the collaboration formalized in February between four Indian institutions and Fermilab. Back in India, the collaboration is working on its first single-cell superconducting accelerating cavity, which will be shipped to Fermilab for processing and testing, Dwivedi said. He expects a more complex multi-cell cavity to be ready in about a year.
Buses and other transportation near CERN is operated by the Transports publics genevois (TPG). Sorry, no English version. Some vocabulary words to know:
Horaires et réseau = Schedule and map (routes)
arrêt = stop (like bus stop), and arrêter = to stop
ligne = line (like bus line)
Luckily, their site is well organized, and so there is a [...]
One of the things I did at Dragon*Con a couple of weeks ago was to give a talk on the physics of the
What’s almost as hot as the LHC? Fermilab’s particle accelerator, the not-quite-so world