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CERN Scientists Find Evidence for Direct Decay of the Higgs Boson into Fermions

For the first time, scientists from the CMS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN have succeeded in finding evidence for the direct decay of the Higgs boson into fermions. Previously, the Higgs particle could only be detected through its decay into bosons. "This is a major step forwards," explains Professor Vincenzo Chiochia from the University of Zurich's Physics Institute, whose group was involved in analyzing the data.

23 Jun 2014

DOE Extends Funding for Energy Frontier Research Center at Brookhaven National Lab

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced an extension of funding totaling $14 million over four years for an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) first established at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2009. It is one of 32 EFRCs announced by U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build the 21st-century energy economy.

23 Jun 2014

Optical Steady Behavior Analyzed in GaAs Quantum Well Structure Driven by EPF

A new proposed scheme, by Wen-Xing Yang, from the Department of Physics, Southeast University, China, and colleagues, analyzed in detail the optical steady behavior in GaAs quantum well structure driven by an elliptically polarized field (EPF) in a unidirectional ring cavity.

20 Jun 2014

Gas Stream Rapidly Flows Outward from NGC 5548 Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole

An international team of astronomers, using data from several NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) space observatories, has discovered unexpected behavior from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy NGC 5548, located 244.6 million light-years from Earth. This behavior may provide new insights into how supermassive black holes interact with their host galaxies.

20 Jun 2014

Winds from Supermassive Black Hole Obscure Observations and X-rays

An international team of scientists including a Virginia Tech physicist have discovered that winds blowing from a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy work to obscure observations and x-rays.

20 Jun 2014

Rare Materials Have Controllable Magnetic, Electric Polarization Properties at Near-Room Temperatures

New theoretical physics research reveals rare materials that possess both controllable magnetic and electric polarization properties at near-room temperatures.

20 Jun 2014

Starbursts in Dwarf Galaxies May Have Had a Larger Role in Early History of the Universe

They may only be little, but they pack a star-forming punch: new observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope show that starbursts in dwarf galaxies played a bigger role than expected in the early history of the Universe.

20 Jun 2014

Lumpy Universe Theory Alone May Not Account for Cosmic Acceleration

Astrophysicists at The University of Texas at Dallas are helping to better define the nature of the cosmos by examining why the universe appears to be expanding at an accelerating pace.

20 Jun 2014

Water's Weird Behaviors May Arise From ‘Split Personality’

Seemingly ordinary, water has quite puzzling behavior. Why, for example, does ice float when most liquids crystallize into dense solids that sink?

20 Jun 2014

First Winners of Accelerate@CERN Arts Programme Announced

CERN today announces the first winners of the Laboratory’s new Accelerate @ CERN programme – a one-month research award for artists. The winners, from the fields of Visual Arts and Interactive Web Art, are drawn from the first two participating countries, Greece and Switzerland respectively.

19 Jun 2014