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Every black hole contains a new universe: A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries

Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today. It's a theory that has been explored ...

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created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (86) | comments 234 | with audio podcast

BaBar data preserved in 'computational cocoon' for future analysis

More than eight years worth of pristine particle physics data will remain available for analysis or re-analysis at least until 2018, now that BaBar's Long Term Data Access project is complete. The project ...

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created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Supercomputing the difference between matter and antimatter

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international collaboration of scientists has reported a landmark calculation of the decay process of a kaon into two pions, using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's fastest ...

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created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Fermilab results add to confidence in explaining less antimatter amounts

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Standard Model of Physics suggests that shortly after the Big Bang there should have been the same amount of antimatter in existence as there was matter. As time passed, both should have ...

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created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 18 | with audio podcast report

First results from RENO: Observation of the weakest neutrino transformation

The Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillations (RENO) research team announced the first result of the search for the remaining, most elusive puzzle of the neutrino transformation. They have found disappearance of neutrinos ...

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created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

First results from Daya Bay find new kind of neutrino transformation

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, a multinational collaboration operating in the south of China, today reported the first results of its search for the last, most elusive piece of a long-standing puzzle: ...

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created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

'Anti-atomic fingerprint': Physicists manipulate anti-hydrogen atoms for the first time (Update)

The ALPHA collaboration at CERN in Geneva has scored another coup on the antimatter front by performing the first-ever spectroscopic measurements of the internal state of the antihydrogen atom. Their results ...

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created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (30) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers find possible evidence of Majorana fermions

(Phys.org) -- Researchers working out of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have constructed a device that appears to offer some evidence of the existence of Majorana fermions; the elusive particles ...

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created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Physicists find patterns in new state of matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered patterns which underlie the properties of a new state of matter.

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created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

Budget cuts portend new direction for Fermilab's Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists working at Fermilab, the premier particle physics lab in the United States, have been asked to rework their plans for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) in light of current ...

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created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Physicists develop first conclusive test to better understand high-energy particles correlations

Researchers have devised a proposal for the first conclusive experimental test of a phenomenon known as "Bell’s nonlocality." This test is designed to reveal correlations that are stronger than any classical correlations, ...

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created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Daya Bay antineutrino detectors exceed performance goals

(PhysOrg.com) -- After just three months of operation, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has far surpassed expectations, recording tens of thousands of particle interactions and paving the way to a better understanding ...

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created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Does antimatter weigh more than matter? Lab experiment to find out the answer

Does antimatter behave differently in gravity than matter? Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have set out to determine the answer. Should they find it, it could explain why the universe ...

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created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 343 | with audio podcast

Physicists chip away at mystery of antimatter imbalance

(PhysOrg.com) -- Why there is stuff in the universe—more properly, why there is an imbalance between matter and antimatter—is one of the long-standing mysteries of cosmology. A team of researchers ...

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created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

Antimatter sticks around

By successfully confining atoms of antihydrogen for an unprecedented 1,000 seconds, an international team of researchers called the ALPHA Collaboration has taken a step towards resolving one of the grand challenges ...

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created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 6 | with audio podcast