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Supercomputer Simulations Show Evolution of Our Universe from the Big Bang

The hunt for dark matter has taken another step forward thanks to new supercomputer simulations showing the evolution of our "local Universe" from the Big Bang to the present day.

26 Jun 2014

MicroBooNE Detector Placed in the Path of Fermilab’s Beam of Neutrinos

On Monday, June 23, the next phase of neutrino physics at Fermilab fell (gently) into place.

25 Jun 2014

Chandra and XMM-Newton Identify Mysterious X-ray Signal

A mysterious X-ray signal has been found in a detailed study of galaxy clusters using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton. One intriguing possibility is that the X-rays are produced by the decay of sterile neutrinos, a type of particle that has been proposed as a candidate for dark matter.

25 Jun 2014

Fundamental Check to Establish Standard Model Higgs Boson

If evidence of the Higgs boson revealed two years ago was the smoking gun, particle physicists at Rice University and their colleagues have now found a few of the bullets.

24 Jun 2014

Large Hadron Collider Begins Preparations for Second Three-Year Run

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world, has started to get ready for its second three-year run. Cool down of the vast machine has already begun in preparation for research to resume early in 2015 following a long technical stop to prepare the machine for running at almost double the energy of run 1.

24 Jun 2014

New Standardized Stellar Scale to Measure Stars

Previously, as with the longitude problem 300 years earlier for fixing locations on Earth, there was no unified system of reference for calibrating the heavens.

24 Jun 2014

New Light on Superconductivity in Transition Metal Binary Alloys

Physicists from India have shed new light on a long-unanswered question related to superconductivity in so-called transition metal binary alloys. The team revealed that the local magnetic fluctuations, or spin fluctuations, an intrinsic property of Titanium-Vanadium (Ti-V) alloys, influence superconductivity in a way that is more widespread than previously thought.

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 24 Jun 2014

New Results on Important Property of Higgs Particle

In a paper published in the journal Nature Physics today, the CMS experiment at CERN reports new results on an important property of the Higgs particle, whose discovery was announced by the ATLAS and CMS experiments on 4 July 2012. The CMS result follows preliminary results from both experiments, which both reported strong evidence for the fermionic decay late in 2013.

24 Jun 2014

Higgs Boson May be Responsible for Generation of Mass of Fundamental Particles

New physics research involving Kansas State University faculty members has helped shed light on how our universe works.

23 Jun 2014

Berkeley Lab Physics Division Director Testifies on Future of Particle Physics

On June 10th in Washington D.C. Natalie Roe, Director of the Physics Division at Berkeley Lab, testified at a congressional subcommittee hearing on the future of particle physics, prompted by the recent release of the Particle Physics Project Prioritization report.

23 Jun 2014