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Honour for Higgs boson physicist
Physicist Peter Higgs, after whom the Higgs boson particle is named, is recognised in the New Year Honours list.
Largest Kansas wind farm set to go online
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The companies building the largest wind farm in Kansas, with 274 wind turbines, say the array is set to begin producing power.
Revealing quantum flow
(Phys.org)—UK-based physicist Ole Steuernagel from the University of Hertfordshire, alongside Dimitris Kakofengitis and Georg Ritter, have found that a new powerful tool they call 'Wigner flow' is the quantum analogue...
Japan's Tepco sued by US sailors
Tokyo Electric Power Company, owner of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, is sued by eight US sailors over radiation exposure.
One step closer: Scientists help explain scarcity of anti-matter
A collaboration with major participation by physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has made a precise measurement of elusive, nearly massless particles, and obtained a crucial hint as to why...
Slice, stack, and roll: A new way to build collagen scaffolds
Tufts University School of Engineering researchers have developed a novel method for fabricating collagen structures that maintains the collagen's natural strength and fiber structure, making it useful for a number...
New funding to research 'super material' graphene
Scientists at Imperial College London are set to receive over £4.5 million of public funding to investigate how the 'super material' graphene can drive improvements in high-tech industries, such as...
'Invisible Exhibition' opens eyes to blindness
The darkness is total. Mundane gestures suddenly become complicated. How do you find the door to your room, cook a meal or cross the road? The "Invisible Exhibition" in the...
VIDEO: UK energy target 'on track'
The government says the UK is on track to deliver its energy target of 15% of all energy from renewable sources by 2020.
New MRI method may help diagnose dementia
A new way to use MRI scans may help determine whether dementia is Alzheimer’s disease or another type of dementia, according to new research.
New Computer Bridges Classical and Quantum Computing
So-called boson-sampling computers could serve as a stopgap until the development of more capable quantum computers.
Higgs boson discovery: 'It was an extraordinarily tense time, but exciting'
Physicist Fabiola Gianotti reflects on the culmination of decades of work on the elusive particleFabiola Gianotti was in mid-flow when her audience at Cern, the particle physics lab near Geneva, spotted the result...
The Gusty Winds Of Space Turbulence Measured In A Terrestrial Lab
There are some kinds of turbulence we know exists but proving it is difficult - turbulence in the ionized gas that fills the universe is one such example. But now a...
Oddballs: The strange worlds beyond our Solar System
The strange worlds beyond our Solar System
China shows electronic circuit advance
BEIJING, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Chinese researchers say they've made a breakthrough in constructing tiny integrated circuits, which would help local electronics manufacturers.
Sandia Lab building solar test centers across U.S.
One of the NSA's three labs is building testing centers around the country to field-test hardware for solar companies
X-ray laser research ranks in Science magazine's top 10
(Phys.org)—Research at SLAC's powerful X-ray laser that could lead to the development of specialized drugs to better combat African sleeping sickness has been recognized by Science magazine as one of...
A clearer look at how iron reacts in the environment
(Phys.org)—Using ultrafast X-rays, scientists for the first time have watched how quickly electrons hop their way through rust nanoparticles.
Polymer Linkers Play Important Part In Mechanochemical Reactions
Mechanochemistry: Seemingly innocuous molecular groups can boost reaction rate three orders of magnitude
Uptick Expected In U.S., European Chemical Output In 2013
Economy: After stumbling in 2012, chemical producers look to a tepid recovery
Molecules Cooled To Near Zero
Physics: Supercooling, first done in atoms, now has been done to hydroxyl radicals, enabling quantum chemistry
Richard J. Engler Nominated To Chemical Safety Board
Labor, environmental leader awaits Senate action on nomination
Autism device hidden in designer vest
A Vancouver designer and entrepreneur hopes to put 'the squeeze' on autism with her variation on a special vest that's doesn't look at all like the medical device that it...
'Molecular levers' may make materials better
In a forced game of molecular tug-of war, some strings of atoms can act like a lever, accelerating reactions 1000 times faster than other molecules. The discovery suggests that scientists...
Tooth fairy quantum mechanics | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics
The reason I can't show you a Higgs boson is also the solution to a parental dilemmaI do sometimes get asked "If you've found a Higgs boson, can you show me a...
Snowboarders feel the buzz from haptic system
(Phys.org)—Daniel Spelmezan, an engineer at the Université Paris-Sud, has worked on a snowboard system that might lighten the case loads of orthopaedic surgeons and even keep those packets of Advil...
The 500 phases of matter
Forget solid, liquid, and gas: there are in fact more than 500 phases of matter. In a major new article scientists reveal a modern reclassification of all of them.
Colliding Particles: Loose Ends | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics
Episode 12 of the series of short films about some extraordinary times in particle physics. Last in the current series. What next now, we have found something like a Higgs...