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Particle Physics at the Crossroads

Professor Mikhail Shifman, recent Pomeranchuk prize winner, says that particle physicists are experiencing a crucial time. And he ought to know. Shifman has written several books on the history of elementary particle physics. "We are at a crossroads, we will go to the left or to the right or nowhere" Shifman says, referring to the fact that supersymmetry, the theory that states that there are superpartners for every known particle, has not yet been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider.

26 Feb 2014

NASA to Host an Opportunities Forum as Part of Asteroid Initiative

As the next step in advancing NASA’s asteroid initiative, the agency will host an Opportunities Forum March 26 at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

25 Feb 2014

Scientists Find the Final Predicted Way of Creating a Top Quark

Scientists on the CDF and DZero experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced that they have found the final predicted way of creating a top quark, completing a picture of this particle nearly 20 years in the making.

25 Feb 2014

Stream of Stars Detected in Andromeda II Dwarf Galaxy

The Andromeda Galaxy is surrounded by a swarm of small satellite galaxies. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have detected a stream of stars in one of the Andromeda Galaxy's outer satellite galaxies, a dwarf galaxy called Andromeda II.

24 Feb 2014

RIKEN and NIMS Successfully Visualize Electron Spin Vortex State with Topological Charge 2

RIKEN, the University of Tokyo, and NIMS succeeded for the first time in generating and visualizing electron spin vortex state "skyrmion molecules" with topological charge 2 within a thin film of "La1+2xSr2-2xMn2O7," a layered manganese oxide which is a ferromagnetic material with uniaxial anisotropy.

24 Feb 2014

Zircon Fragment May Help Confirm How the Earth Became Habitable

With the help of a tiny fragment of zircon extracted from a remote rock outcrop in Australia, the picture of how our planet became habitable to life about 4.4 billion years ago is coming into sharper focus.

24 Feb 2014

Theoretical Particle Physicist to Speak at Indiana State University's Speakers Series Programs

A physicist who studies the origin and makeup of the universe is the next speaker for Indiana State University's 203-14 University Speakers Series.

24 Feb 2014

Giant Explosions Larger Than Venus

Researchers recently discovered that a common space weather phenomenon on the outskirts of Earth's magnetic bubble, the magnetosphere, has much larger repercussions for Venus. The giant explosions, called hot flow anomalies, can be so large at Venus that they're bigger than the entire planet and they can happen multiple times a day.

21 Feb 2014

New Calibration Technique Increases LUX Dark Matter Detector’s Calibration Accuracy 10-Fold

A new high-accuracy calibration of the LUX (Large Underground Xenon) dark matter detector demonstrates the experiment's sensitivity to ultra-low energy events. The new analysis strongly confirms the result that low-mass dark matter particles were a no-show during the detector's initial run, which concluded last summer.

21 Feb 2014

Honeywell Brings Nobel Laureate to CETYS University, Mexicali

Honeywell today brought Nobel Laureate Eric A. Cornell to Centro de Ensenanza Tecnica y Superior (CETYS) University, Mexicali, for a two-day program of inspirational exchanges with students and faculty.

21 Feb 2014