El País in English6d
Mark Thomson, physicist: ‘We are going to open a new window onto the universe that we haven’t had before’
The British scientist has been selected to lead the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, Europe’s CERN ...
NBC News on MSN12d
A monkey writing Shakespeare? That's much ado about nothing, scientists claim
It’s a staple of popular fiction, but two mathematicians in Australia now say that an age-old maxim is nothing more than ...
CERN7d
The origins of the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism
now called the “Higgs field”, which pervades the universe. Just after the big bang, the Higgs field was zero, but as the universe cooled and the temperature fell below a critical value, the field grew ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle29d
The long and strange lives of Enrico Fermi’s accelerator building at UChicago
The accelerator, built in 1949 on the UChicago campus on 56th Street and Ellis Avenue, ran for ten years and made multiple contributions to the field of particle physics ... the remnant light left ...
Marcela Carena named new head – and first woman – to lead Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Her research work is focused on unexplained aspects of the universe that make our existence possible, including why matter ...
CERN13d
CERN70: Announcing the Higgs boson discovery
The discovery of the Higgs boson was a milestone in the history of science ... from the decoupling of the electromagnetic and ...
Singularity Hub14d
Did the Early Cosmos Inflate Like a Balloon? A Mirror Universe Going Backwards in Time May Be a Simpler Explanation
There may well be simpler, more powerful and more testable explanations for the basic properties of the universe than those ...
Live Science26d
32 physics experiments that changed the world
Physicist Robert Millikan's answer was to drop electrically charged oil drops through the plates of a capacitor and adjust the voltage of the capacitor until the electric field it emitted produced ...