CERN announces observation of new particle consistent with long-sought Higgs...
The following is adapted from a press release issued today by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.At a seminar held at CERN today as a curtain-raiser to the year’s major particle...
View Article3 Questions: Physicist Christoph Paus discusses newly discovered particle
Today CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced the most conclusive evidence yet for the existence of the Higgs boson (at 5 sigma), a long-elusive cornerstone of the Standard...
View ArticleWatching electrons move at high speed
Topological insulators are exotic materials, discovered just a few years ago, that hold great promise for new kinds of electronic devices. The unusual behavior of electrons within them has been very...
View ArticleProving quantum computers feasible
Quantum computers are devices — still largely theoretical — that could perform certain types of computations much faster than classical computers; one way they might do that is by exploiting “spin,” a...
View ArticleSeeing the dark
Dark matter, believed by physicists to outweigh all the normal matter in the universe by more than five to one, is by definition invisible. But certain features associated with dark matter might be...
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