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    Updated: 2012-01-31 17:10:59
    A few short items: No Higgs news on the LHC front, but on the BSM front today’s CERN talk Update on Searches for New Physics in CMS provides more evidence against the various exotic scenarios heavily advertised over the last … Continue reading →

  • Heating cools a semiconductor

    Updated: 2012-01-31 16:24:50
    Laser technique used on solid for first time

  • Ancient Islamic architects created perfect quasicrystals

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:41:10
    Patterns made with nothing more than a compass and a straight edge

  • New Affordable Scanning Probe Microscope with Advanced Capabilities

    Updated: 2012-01-31 09:56:11
    NT-MDT announced the release of the SOLVER Nano Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM). The SOLVER Nano is an affordable SPM with advanced measurement capabilities.

  • Entanglement Based Approaches in Quantum Chemistry

    Updated: 2012-01-31 00:00:00
    Workshop: 4 Sep 2012 - 6 Sep 2012, Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Organized by Örs Legeza, Beate Paulus, Markus Reiher and Reinhold Schneider.

  • Rydberg atom simulates Trojan asteroids

    Updated: 2012-01-30 16:30:25
    Jupiter's companions recreated on an atomic scale

  • 3rd IMA Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimisation

    Updated: 2012-01-27 00:00:00
    Conference: 10 Sep 2012 - 12 Sep 2012, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Organized by Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.

  • 5TH IMA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFLUENCE AND CONFLICT

    Updated: 2012-01-27 00:00:00
    Conference: 23 Apr 2012 - 25 Apr 2012, Sandhurst, United Kingdom. Organized by Pamela Bye.

  • Fermilab plans for a future of discovery

    Updated: 2012-01-26 16:58:36
    The only laboratory in the United States dedicated entirely to particle physics recently released its plan for the next two decades.

  • Rigidity of periodic and symmetrick structures in nature and engineering

    Updated: 2012-01-26 00:00:00
    Conference: 23 Feb 2012 - 24 Feb 2012, Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. Organized by Royal Society.

  • Nanolaboratories: physics and chemistry of small-molecule endofullerenes

    Updated: 2012-01-26 00:00:00
    Conference: 15 Mar 2012 - 16 Mar 2012, Chicheley, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. Organized by Royal Society.

  • XVIIIth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP2012)

    Updated: 2012-01-26 00:00:00
    Conference: 8 Jul 2012 - 13 Jul 2012, Lausanne, Switzerland. Organized by European Physical Society.

  • An Introduction to Group Therapy for Particle Physics

    Updated: 2012-01-24 15:54:55
    The latest CERN Courier book review section is out here. Besides a long review of Frank Close’s The Infinity Puzzle, there are some short reviews, including one for Stephen Heywood’s Symmetries and Conservation Laws in Particle Physics: An Introduction to … Continue reading →

  • Scientists finish installation of 80-ton ‘particle thermometer’ at ALICE detector

    Updated: 2012-01-24 14:50:24
    Scientists on the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider just completed the installation of a crucial component for tracking high-energy particle jets. Without it, physicists would be lacking crucial tools to select which events out of billions to store and analyze.

  • Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory

    Updated: 2012-01-17 23:18:57
    The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook is having a workshop this week on Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory. I was hoping to find time to go out there and hear some of the talks, but … Continue reading →

  • What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?

    Updated: 2012-01-15 18:50:09
    Science publishing impresario John Brockman’s Edge web-site each year runs a “Question of the year” feature, with short pieces from a wide range of people providing their answer to the question. The past few years I’ve passed on their invitation … Continue reading →

  • Belle experiment makes exotic discovery

    Updated: 2012-01-11 10:29:50
    The Belle Experiment at KEK laboratory in Japan has discovered two unexpected new types of hadrons.

  • Newswire: CNRS - GUINEVERE : towards cleaner nuclear energy

    Updated: 2012-01-11 06:00:00
    It's a worldwide first: the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN) has succeeded in operating a lead-cooled nuclear reactor controlled by a particle accelerator built by CNRS. The objective is to control the operation of nuclear reactors more easily and produce less polluting nuclear waste in the long term. This operational model, known as GUINEVERE, was also built in collaboration with CEA, the European Commission and around ten European laboratories.

  • DH Lawrence on Quantum Mechanics

    Updated: 2012-01-10 07:01:00
    From DH Lawrence: I  like relativity and quantum theories Because I don’t understand them And

  • Newswire: KEK - Belle Discovers New Heavy 'Exotic Hadrons'

    Updated: 2012-01-10 06:00:00
    Two unexpected new hadrons containing bottom quarks have been discovered by the Belle Experiment using the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)'s B Factory (KEKB), a highly-luminous, electron-positron collider. These new particles have electric charge and are thought to be "exotic" hadrons -- non-standard hadrons, containing at least four quarks. Previously, a series of new and unexpected exotic hadrons containing charm and anti-charm quarks have been observed. This latest discovery from Belle demonstrates the existence of exotic hadrons containing at least four quarks in a particle system including bottom quarks.

  • Iowa Caucuses Security: Can Quantum Physics Help?

    Updated: 2012-01-03 21:45:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Tuesday , January 03, 2012 Iowa Caucuses Security : Can Quantum Physics Help Image credit : AP via CBS . News Today , Republican presidential candidates are vying to win the Iowa caucuses . Although winning in Iowa doesn't guarantee the nomination by any means , past results suggest it's a decent predictor of victory . Recent winners who went on to win the nomination for their party include Barack Obama D John Kerry D Al Gore D and George W . Bush R in 2000. The Iowa caucuses can have a significant impact on Presidential campaigns , and the security and integrity of the vote have become a growing concern . This year , a video purportedly posted by a member of the hacker group Anonymous has threatened to shut down the election event's website and disrupt the

  • LHC heads into new year with first particle discovery

    Updated: 2012-01-03 15:18:33
    The first new particle was seen at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland shortly before Christmas. The ATLAS collaboration announced the discovery of the particle Chi-b (3P), which consists of a bottom quark and antiquark particle bound together by the strong force. This force holds all atomic nuclei together so understanding Chi-b (3P) could [...]

  • Newswire: KEK - The mechanism that explains why our universe was born with 3 dimensions: a 40-year-old puzzle of superstring theory solved by supercomputer

    Updated: 2011-12-22 06:00:00
    A group of three researchers from KEK, Shizuoka University and Osaka University has for the first time revealed the way our universe was born with 3 spatial dimensions from 10-dimensional superstring theory1 in which spacetime has 9 spatial directions and 1 temporal direction. This result was obtained by numerical simulation on a supercomputer.

  • Newswire: CERN - European particle physics plots course for the future

    Updated: 2011-12-15 06:00:00
    Geneva, 15 December 2011. CERN Council today announced an Open Symposium to be held on 10-13 September 2012 at Cracow, Poland for the purpose of updating the European Strategy for Particle Physics. Council adopted Europe's current strategy for the field in July 2006 with an understanding that it be brought up to date at appropriate intervals of typically five years.

  • Newswire: Higgs search update - Media invitation

    Updated: 2011-12-06 06:00:00
    Update on the search for the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN Geneva, 6 December 2011. A seminar will be held at CERN on 13 December at which the ATLAS and CMS experiments will present the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson. These results will be based on the analysis of considerably more data than those presented at the summer conferences, sufficient to make significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, but not enough to make any conclusive statement on the existence or non-existence of the Higgs.

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