http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. The Review of Particle Physics, a panorama of the world of high-energy and astroparticle physics, has been compiled and issued every two years since 1957 by the international Particle Data Group, now consisting of almost 200 scientists from 22 countries and based at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). http://phys.org/news259338590.html Physics Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:30:15 EST news259338590 (PhysOrg.com) -- Recently there has been a virtual explosion of research efforts aimed at creating the elusive Majorana fermion with different groups claiming to be near to creating them. First there was news that a team at Stanford was on the precipice, then came reports that another group at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands was very close as well. Now comes news of yet another team who some think may have the best chance yet of making them, and better yet, using them to help make quantum computing possible. This third group, made up of Chinese and American teams takes the approach, as they describe in their paper published in Science, of growing a topical insulator film on top of a superconductor. http://phys.org/news251109204.html Physics Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:50:03 EST news251109204 (PhysOrg.com) -- New measurements announced today by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory indicate that the elusive Higgs boson may nearly be cornered. After analyzing the full data set from the Tevatron accelerator, which completed its last run in September 2011, the two independent experiments see hints of a Higgs boson. http://phys.org/news250276968.html Physics Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:00:01 EST news250276968 (PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson, one of nature’s elementary particles, has been achieved by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The new measurement is an important, independent constraint of the mass of the theorized Higgs boson.  It also provides a rigorous test of the Standard Model that serves as the blueprint for our world, detailing the properties of the building blocks of matter and how they interact. http://phys.org/news249906389.html Physics Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:27:10 EST news249906389 (PhysOrg.com) -- Just as firemen use different methods to narrow the location of a person trapped in a building, scientists employ two techniques to find the hiding place of the theorized Higgs particle: direct searches for Higgs interactions and precision measurements of other particles and forces. http://phys.org/news249240191.html Physics Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:23:30 EST news249240191 Back in December 2011, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN presented some exciting results that provided tantalising hints of the Higgs boson. http://phys.org/news247896504.html Physics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:08:44 EST news247896504 A research team led by physicists at the University of California, Riverside has identified a property of "bilayer graphene" (BLG) that the researchers say is analogous to finding the Higgs boson in particle physics. http://phys.org/news246641001.html Nanotechnology Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:23:36 EST news246641001 (PhysOrg.com) -- A better understanding of the universe will be the outgrowth of the discovery of the Higgs boson, according to a team of University of Oklahoma researchers.   The team predicts the discovery will lead to supersymmetry or SUSY — an extension of the standard model of particle physics.  SUSY predicts new matter states or super partners for each matter particle already accounted for in the standard model.  SUSY theory provides an important new step to a better understanding of the universe we live in. http://phys.org/news245495521.html Physics Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:12:20 EST news245495521 Yesterday physicists in Europe reported possible signs of the Higgs boson, a missing piece in the particle-physics puzzle long suspected of giving elementary particles -- such as electrons and quarks -- their mass. http://phys.org/news243069906.html Physics Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:40:01 EST news243069906 (PhysOrg.com) -- Two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have nearly eliminated the space in which the Higgs boson could dwell, scientists announced in a seminar held at CERN today. However, the ATLAS and CMS experiments see modest excesses in their data that could soon uncover the famous missing piece of the physics puzzle. http://phys.org/news242988821.html Physics Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:53:54 EST news242988821 (PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists collaborating on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN – the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva – will announce their latest results in the search for the Higgs boson particle on Tuesday 13 December. http://phys.org/news242975910.html Physics Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:18:57 EST news242975910 Scientists are quivering with anticipation - flying halfway around the world for a close-up view of the action and devouring the latest updates from the blogosphere the way some girls track the doings of Justin Bieber. http://phys.org/news242917320.html Physics Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:10:01 EST news242917320 Scientists at the world's largest atom smasher have new data that shows with greater certainty where to find a long-sought theoretical particle that would help explain the origins of the universe. http://phys.org/news242578384.html Physics Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:53:30 EST news242578384 (PhysOrg.com) -- Want to find out how to Hunt the Higgs Boson using your phone? Ever wondered how the Large Hadron Collider experiments work, and what the collisions look like? http://phys.org/news237399498.html Physics Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:18:45 EST news237399498 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Universe wouldn't be the same without the Higgs boson. This legendary particle plays a role in cosmology and reveals the possible existence of another closely related particle. http://phys.org/news235809985.html Physics Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:46:54 EST news235809985 The last missing piece of scientists’ fundamental model of particle physics is running out of places to hide. http://phys.org/news235201152.html Physics Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:39:39 EST news235201152 The elusive Higgs Boson, known as the "God particle", is -- if it exists -- running out of places to hide, the head of the mammoth experiment designed to find it said on Thursday. http://phys.org/news233481121.html Physics Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:52:22 EST news233481121 If you're bummed about humanity's biggest accelerator not producing a Higgs particle yet, maybe the latest effort to find a Z-prime will make you feel better. http://phys.org/news233468910.html Physics Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:28:56 EST news233468910 International scientists searching to solve the greatest riddle in all of physics said Monday that signs are fading of the elusive Higgs-Boson particle, which is believed to give objects mass. http://phys.org/news233249414.html Physics Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:31:14 EST news233249414 (PhysOrg.com) -- Two experimental collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider, located at CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, announced today that they have significantly narrowed the mass region in which the Higgs boson could be hiding. http://phys.org/news233217858.html Physics Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:10:25 EST news233217858 Scientists at a meeting in Grenoble, France, recently stoked speculation that physicists at the world's biggest particle accelerator may soon provide a first look at the elusive Higgs boson - the final piece of evidence needed to prove that the Standard Model of particle physics, which explains the behavior of subatomic particles, is correct. http://phys.org/news232812529.html Physics Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:50:01 EST news232812529 The physics world was abuzz with some tantalizing news a couple of weeks ago. At a meeting of the European Physical Society in Grenoble, France, physicists -- including some from Caltech -- announced that the latest data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) might hint at the existence of the ever-elusive Higgs boson. http://phys.org/news232683569.html Physics Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:20:19 EST news232683569 Although physicists from two experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider and from Fermilab’s Tevatron collider recently reported at the Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics that they didn't find the Higgs boson, they're continuing to home in on the elusive particle, prompting Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the Director General of CERN, to go on record that he believes a neutral Higgs boson will be found by the LHC by the end of 2012. http://phys.org/news232281371.html Physics Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:36:28 EST news232281371 An ordinary laptop or PC is all you need to join a global project to help scientists at the Large Hadron Collider, one of the world's most ambitious science projects, understand what happened just after the Big Bang; or prepare maps to help humanitarian relief in the aftermath of a natural disaster. http://phys.org/news232014214.html Technology Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:50:01 EST news232014214 Birmingham particle physicists are today trawling through the data from particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider that could indicate the existence of the Higgs boson.  http://phys.org/news230890115.html Physics Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:08:53 EST news230890115 Experiments at the world's biggest atom smasher have yielded tantalising hints that a long-sought sub-atomic particle truly exists, with final proof likely by late 2012, physicists said Monday. http://phys.org/news230818080.html Physics Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:08:13 EST news230818080 The first of the major summer conferences for particle physics opens today in Grenoble. All of the Large Hadron Collider experiments will be presenting results, and a press conference is scheduled for Monday 25 July. The conference follows an extremely successful start to LHC running in 2011, and results are eagerly awaited. http://phys.org/news230464984.html Physics Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:03:25 EST news230464984 (PhysOrg.com) -- Emerging from the heads of most cud-chewing mammals, headgear inspire an almost mystical and certainly majestic aura. But, scientists say, we know shockingly little about them. http://phys.org/news229149628.html Biology Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:40:59 EST news229149628 (PhysOrg.com) -- Over the weekend, at a physics conference in France, Fermilab CDF collaboration member, Giovanni Punzi, gave a presentation where he showed some slides that appeared to back up the rumors that cropped up a month ago on the Internet, suggesting the team had found some evidence that might hint at the existence of a previously unknown particle; which would of course refer to the infamous Higgs Boson. http://phys.org/news226139348.html Physics Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:30:34 EST news226139348 The world's biggest particle collider set a new record early Monday, a feat that should accelerate the quest to pinpoint the elusive particle known as the Higgs Boson, a senior physicist said. http://phys.org/news225386176.html Physics Mon, 23 May 2011 16:16:36 EST news225386176