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UNL Postdoc Oversees First Data-Yielding Collisions at Large Hadron Collider

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln postdoctoral researcher is overseeing the first data-yielding collisions at the Large Hadron Collider since the reboot of the world’s largest particle accelerator in April.

4 Jun 2015

Mainz Contributes Critical Component for the Large Hadron Collider

After a two-year operational pause and two months after its restart in April 2015, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN research center is now again recording data at energies as high as never before.

4 Jun 2015

LHC to Run Around the Clock for the Next Three Years

The 27 km long underground particle accelerator, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN is once again in full swing and is colliding protons at record energies. This is after a break of more than two years to rebuild and upgrade the accelerator.

4 Jun 2015

MSU Astrophysicist Honored with Marcel Grossmann Prize for Work on Neutron Stars

A Montana State University astrophysicist has won a prestigious international award for her pioneering work on neutron stars.

4 Jun 2015

LHC Now Provides Collisions at Unprecedented 13TeV Energy

Today, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started delivering physics data for the first time in 27 months. After an almost two year shutdown and several months re-commissioning, the LHC is now providing collisions to all of its experiments at the unprecedented energy of 13 TeV, almost double the collision energy of its first run. This marks the start of season 2 at the LHC, opening the way to new discoveries. The LHC will now run round the clock for the next three years.

4 Jun 2015

CERN Data to Help Explore Fundamental Constituents of Matter and Laws Governing Their Behavior

When experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland start collecting the first 13-teraelectronvolt (TeV) particle collisions data today, a long wait will be over for three University of Massachusetts Amherst physicists, who now begin some of the most exciting years of their careers searching for new subatomic particles, evidence of extra dimensions and the nature of dark matter.

4 Jun 2015

CERN Scientists Commence Recording Data from Highest-Energy Particle Collisions on Earth

Today scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European research facility, started recording data from the highest-energy particle collisions ever achieved on Earth.

4 Jun 2015

Interactions with Unseen Solar System-Like Planet Could Be Shaping Ring Around Sun-Like Star

An international team led by Thayne Currie of the Subaru Telescope and using the Gemini South telescope, has discovered a young planetary system that shares remarkable similarities to our own early solar system. Their images reveal a ring-like disk of debris surrounding a Sun-like star, in a birth environment similar to the Sun's.

4 Jun 2015

Spinning Particles Suspended in Fluid Can Arrange into an Array of Emergent Macro-Scale Patterns

From flocks of starlings to schools of fish, nature is full of intricate dynamics that emerge from the collective behavior of individuals. In recent years, interest has grown in trying to capture similar dynamics to make self-assembling materials from so-called "active matter."

3 Jun 2015

More Precise Physical Checkup for the Milky Way

What if your doctor told you that your weight is somewhere between 100 and 400 lbs.? With any ordinary scale every patient can do better at home. Yet, one patient can't: the Milky Way.

3 Jun 2015