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A milestone for molecular beams

(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of molecular collisions, we often consider massive colliders, like the LHC, sending particles smashing into each other at very high energies. While this is interesting work, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 29, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 4 | with audio podcast feature

Einstein equations indicate possibility of black hole formation at the LHC

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the concerns that has been voiced about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is that it could result in the formation of black holes that could destroy the world. While most scientists ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (63) | comments 364 | with audio podcast feature

Tiny 'spherules' reveal details about Earth's asteroid impacts

(Phys.org) -- Researchers are learning details about asteroid impacts going back to the Earth's early history by using a new method for extracting precise information from tiny "spherules" embedded in layers ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Atoms dressed with light show new interactions, could reveal way to observe enigmatic particle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have for the first time engineered and detected the presence of high angular momentum collisions between atoms at temperatures close to absolute ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Physicists set strongest limit on mass of dark matter

Brown University physicists have set the strongest limit for the mass of dark matter, the mysterious particles believed to make up nearly a quarter of the universe. The researchers report in Physical Review Le ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (12) | comments 43 | with audio podcast

Astronomers pin down galaxy collision rate

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new analysis of images from the Hubble Space Telescope combined with supercomputer simulations of galaxy collisions has cleared up years of confusion about the rate at which smaller galaxies ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Cosmic crashes forging gold: Nuclear reactions in space do produce the heaviest elements

(PhysOrg.com) -- Collisions of neutron stars produce the heaviest elements such as gold or lead. The cosmic site where the heaviest chemical elements such as lead or gold are formed has most likely been identified: ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 46 | with audio podcast

Swift and Hubble probe an asteroid crash (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Late last year, astronomers noticed an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened, and it was sporting short-lived plumes. Data from NASA's Swift satellite and Hubble Space Telescope ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

A flow of heavy-ion results from the Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider shut down its proton beams on Nov. 4, 2010, and quickly began circulating beams of lead ions, a run scheduled to last a month. Within days, the first results from ALICE, the LHC experiment ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Large Hadron Collider experiments bring new insight into primordial universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- After less than three weeks of heavy-ion running, the three experiments studying lead ion collisions at the LHC have already brought new insight into matter as it would have existed in the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 26, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (33) | comments 86 | with audio podcast

Large Hadron Collider pauses protons; enters new phase

(PhysOrg.com) -- Proton running for 2010 in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN came to a successful conclusion today. Since the end of March, when the first collisions occurred at a total energy of 7 TeV, the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Bizarre X-shaped intruder linked to an unseen asteroid collision (w/ Video)

Last January astronomers thought they had witnessed a fresh collision between two asteroids when images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope revealed a bizarre X-shaped object at the head of a comet-like ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Large Hadron Collider scientists spot potential new discovery: CERN

Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher said Tuesday they appeared to have discovered a previously unobserved phenomenon in their quest to unravel the deepest secrets of the universe.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (52) | comments 54 | with audio podcast

Magnetic monopole experiment at CERN could rewrite laws of physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- An experiment led by a University of Alberta researcher, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, could dramatically change our concepts of basic physics, revolutionize our understanding of the Universe ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 24, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (33) | comments 33 | with audio podcast

Large Hadron Collider 7 TeV experiment on March 30

(PhysOrg.com) -- With beams routinely circulating in the Large Hadron Collider at 3.5 TeV, the highest energy yet achieved in a particle accelerator, CERN has set the date for the start of the LHC research ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 23, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (26) | comments 39 | with audio podcast

Collision

A collision is an isolated event in which two or more moving bodies (colliding bodies) exert relatively strong forces on each other for a relatively short time.

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