Science news articles about 'particle'

... printing method. The secret lies in the ink: “The suspension contains nano silver particles in a special solvent,” says Werner. “This enables us to print extremely thin-layered conductor paths.” ...

When the world's most powerful subatomic particle collider begins gathering data this summer, it will be a major milestone for a number of University of Washington scientists.

... just HIV,” he clarifies, “any virus.” To prove that what they were watching was virus particles assembling at the surface (rather than an already assembled virion coming into their field of view ...

The University of Chicago announced today that it has received a $5 million gift to be directed toward the development of future programs in particle physics.

... 90,000 tubes that are key to the workings of the Atlas detector. Atlas is one of six particle physics experiments that are part of the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear ...

Up, down, top, bottom, charm, strange, axions, sleptons and quarks. How do physicists dream up such whimsical names for the fundamental particles they discover? Simon Singh explains

Australia has joined SCOAP3, an international consortium that aims to provide free access to major particle physics journals world-wide. Six of the Group of Eight universities in Australia have agreed ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thirty years ago, particle physics delighted in discovering the "bottomonium" family— ... set of particles that contain both a bottom quark and an anti-bottom quark but are bound together ...

... etching process which relies on catalytic metal particles to etch the graphene along precise atomic ... 900° C. At that temperature, the iron forms particles with diameters of about 15 nm, spreads across ...

The particle accelerator known as the Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) -- now in planning stages at Cornell -- would open doors to new research in fields from materials science to biochemistry, said Georg ...

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope.

... more energy than any previous collider. The debris from those collisions--showers of subatomic particles that the detectors will track and record--will yield results that could radically change our ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Glasgow scientists, working at CERN, have observed the first particles in the Large Hadron Collider during preliminary tests ahead of the switch-on next month.

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Who says science doesn't turn people on? Kate McAlpine is a rising star on YouTube for her rap performance - about high-energy particle physics....

PARIS (Reuters) - French scientists have devised a way of using particle accelerators to authenticate vintage wines, one of France's top research bodies said this week.