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The reigning theory of particle physics may be flawed, according to new evidence that a subatomic particle decays in a certain way more often than it should, scientists announced. full story
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WATCH: One Million Particles Collide In Staggering CGI Clip
What happens if you set up a computer to realistically collide a million particles? First, it takes eight days to render. Then you get this staggering video clip. A self-taught computer programmer, David Moore, set up the experiment to model gravity and spring repulsion. He told Universe Today that after more than a week the result was this hypnotic video, which is...
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Book Review : Heart of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe (Science Essentials) by Jeremiah...
An astrophysicist and a science historian describe the search for the universe’s unseen dark matter and dark energy. Princeton Univ., 2013, 299 p., $27.95
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Cosmic! Scientists clear up one of large unsolved puzzles about our Universe
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Higgs Data Suggest Universe Has Finite Lifespan
By Irene Klotz BOSTON (Reuters) - Scientists are still sorting out the details of last year's discovery of the Higgs boson particle, but add up the numbers and it's not looking good for the future of the universe, scientists said Monday. "If you use all the physics that we know now and you do what you think is a straightforward calculation, it's bad news," Joseph Lykken, a...
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Search For New 'Unparticle' Goes Deep Underground
By: Jesse Emspak, LiveScience Contributor Published: 02/21/2013 02:33 PM EST on LiveScience It's a good time to be a particle physicist. The long-sought Higgs boson particle seems finally to have been found at an accelerator in Geneva, and scientists are now hot on the trail of another tiny piece of the universe, this one tied to a new fundamental force of nature. An...
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Physicists May Have Finally Found The Invisible Scaffolding Of Our Universe
Physicists may have finally found hard evidence for the existence of dark matter. And reports from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston say the announcement could come within the next fortnight - if the data holds up. Dark matter is thought to be the invisible 'stuff' which makes up the bulk of the universe's mass. In fact it's supposed to...
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How the dawn of time has a promising future in research
Europe's Planck satellite is gathering cosmic data that will revolutionise our understanding of the universePossibly the most daring piece of modern science is the attempt to predict the patterns that galaxies make in the sky. The bold starting point is a statement on what the universe was like at a time when the entire visible universe was compressed into something like the...
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Tracking the universe's first light
How cute was our universe as a baby? We now know better than ever -- the picture of our early universe just got sharper, and tells scientists with greater precision many important facts about how the universe evolved.
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Has Dark Matter Finally Been Found?
By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 02/18/2013 09:48 AM EST on SPACE.com BOSTON — Big news in the search for dark matter may be coming in about two weeks, the leader of a space-based particle physics experiment said today (Feb. 17) here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. That's when the first paper of results from the Alpha Magnetic...
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The holographic universe: Where science and spirituality meet
Michael Talbot ws a brilliant researcher who authored a number of thought-provoking books depicting a theoretical model of reality that suggests the physical universe is akin to a giant hologram. His elegant model beautifully interweaves the...
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