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"A Tantalizing Hint of Dark Matter?" No.

Submitted by Yoo on 12/19/2009 - 00:24
Tags: Physics

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search has so far been unable to convincingly detect dark matter particles.

First Collisions in the LHC!

Submitted by Yoo on 11/23/2009 - 23:47
Tags: Physics

The Large Hadron Collider has circulated two counter-rotating beams, and the CMS experiment recorded its first collision event.

Beam circulation and beyond: pre-Christmas LHC activities

Submitted by Yoo on 11/21/2009 - 09:10
Tags: Physics

The Large Hadron Collider achieves its first circulation of proton beams this year.

More on LHC beam in CMS

Submitted by Yoo on 11/09/2009 - 00:06
Tags: Physics

CMS has started observing LHC beam splash events for the first time in 2009.

No, No Baguette!

Submitted by Yoo on 11/07/2009 - 00:24
Tags: Physics

The Large Hadron Collider overheats and suffers further delays because of bread crumbs dropped by a bird.

Beam is Back! The LHC Restarts

Submitted by Yoo on 10/27/2009 - 23:52
Tags: Physics

This past weekend saw the first beam particles in the Large Hadron Collider since the magnet quench incident of September 2008.

A New Challenge to Einstein?

Submitted by Yoo on 10/13/2009 - 01:22
Tags: Physics, Astronomy

Measurements of weak gravitational lensing suggest that large-scale structure in the universe might deviate from what would be predicted by general relativity.

Nobel Prize in Physics 2009

Submitted by Yoo on 10/07/2009 - 00:17
Tags: Physics

Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith share this years Nobel Prize in Physics for their contributions to the transmission and detection of light, specifically work on fiber optics and CCDs.

Next they'll tell me pigs can fly.

Submitted by Yoo on 09/14/2009 - 23:59
Tags: Biology, Physics

Mice appear to function normally on the short term when levitated by strong magnetic fields after an initial bout of panic.

A Quantum Quandary

Submitted by Yoo on 08/20/2009 - 23:35
Tags: Physics

There is a particular sequence of measurements that results in a quantum system being stymied by indecision.

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