?Brunel scientists to tell story of Higgs Boson at Royal Society Exhibition...
(Source: Brunel University) The story behind the discovery of the Higgs Boson, which is thought to explain why fundamental particles have mass, is being told by a team from Brunel University, London,...
View ArticleFour-Quark Subatomic Particle Seen In Japan & China May Be Entirely New Form...
A new type of particle may have shown up independently at two particle accelerators, physicists say. The particle, made of four quarks (the ingredients of protons and neutrons), appears to represent a...
View ArticleMore women’s leadership needed [2013-06-26] (PKU - Peking University)
(Source: PKU - Peking University) Peking University, June 24, 2013: "More women are needed in leadership around the world," and "this is an important moment for Wellesley, for Peking University, for...
View ArticleA closet of hidden phenomena
Science has been rarely counter-intuitive to our understanding of reality, and its elegant rationalism at every step of the way has been reassuring. This is why Bell’s theorem has been one of the...
View ArticleHiggs evidence and suspense mount
A YEAR since the discovery of a subatomic particle set the science world aflutter, evidence is mounting it may be the elusive Higgs boson even as researchers warn the suspense is far from over. "We...
View ArticleWorkshop helps grade school teachers integrate computer science in classroom...
(Source: University of Delaware) UD faculty and Delaware teachers are collaborating to integrate computer science principles into public school curriculum. UD faculty and Delaware teachers are...
View ArticleHiggs evidence mounts one year on
Paris - A year since the discovery of a subatomic particle set the science world aflutter, evidence is mounting it may be the elusive Higgs boson even as researchers warn the suspense is far from...
View ArticleGlobal experts in electric vehicle technology gather for workshop...
(Source: University of Windsor) Experts from around the world will gather in the new Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation later this week to discuss the latest developments in electric vehicle...
View ArticleOn the hunt for neutrinos (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Every second, trillions of particles called neutrinos pass through your body. These particles have a mass so tiny it has never been measured, and...
View ArticleNew four-quark particle at low energy found
There is excitement among particle physicists following evidence of the existence of a four-quark particle which has been seen in two experiments — the Belle particle detector in Japan and in BESIII...
View ArticleOpening Day of FPISC (University of Science and Technology of China)
(Source: University of Science and Technology of China) [2013-07-03] 2013 Future Physicist International Summer Camp(FPISC) was officially initiated at 9:00am On July 1st. Constituted by the opening...
View ArticleNew Clue for Curing T2D (University of Science and Technology of China)
(Source: University of Science and Technology of China) [2013-07-02] Prof. ZHOU Rongbin & JIANG Wei's group and Prof. TIAN Zhigang's group from University of Science & Technology of China,...
View ArticleThe Large Hadron Collider in pictures: using big technology to investigate...
"You're pushing the Higgs too much." Such has been Peter Higgs' admonishment to the CERN communications department in recent times. The British theoretical physicist, who has contributed both his work...
View ArticleShanghai center to showcase robots
Expo plans to feature machines for dull or complicated assignments The consumer robotics market is set to have a quick takeoff in China with the nation's first service robot exhibition center scheduled...
View ArticleFirst space lecture opens new horizons for China
BEIJING, June 20 (Xinhua) -- A special lecture began Thursday morning, given by a teacher aboard a space module about 340 km above her students on Earth. Female astronaut Wang Yaping, one of three crew...
View ArticleNigel Lockyer of Canada’s TRIUMF lab named Fermilab director (University of...
(Source: University of Chicago) Nigel Lockyer, director of Canada's TRIUMF laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of British Columbia,...
View ArticleGrain for green in NW China... (The Central People's Government of the...
(Source: The Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China) Grain for green in NW China benefits farmers BEIJING, June 18 (Xinhuanet) -- A curtain of dust used to blur the sight all...
View ArticleKenneth Wilson: Physicist and Nobel laureate
Kenneth Wilson was a visionary physicist who won the 1982 Nobel Prize for his pioneering work on phase transitions, the transformation of thermodynamic systems from one phase or state of matter to...
View ArticleChina's Shenzhou-10 mission successful
BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Three astronauts who completed China's longest manned space mission returned to Earth safely Wednesday morning, marking another step towards the country's goal of building...
View ArticlePresidential visit opens new era in Korea-China ties (Office of the President...
(Source: Office of the President of the Republic of Korea) Presidential visit opens new era in Korea-China ties Korea and China opened a door to the next two decades based on trust and faith. Under the...
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