News tagged with energy particles

Particles are back in the LHC

During the last weekend (23-25 October) particles have once again entered the LHC after the one-year break that followed the incident of September 2008.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (30) | comments 2

A Theory of Dark Matter

Among the most astounding, unexpected, and important achievements of the past century (or even more) have been the discoveries of dark matter and dark energy, collectively dubbed the "dark sector."

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (45) | comments 58

California to require sun-blocking car windows

New cars sold in California must include windshields that block or absorb the sun's rays beginning in 2012, the state's Air Resources Board recently ruled.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (13) | comments 24

Galactic nuclei offer some indication of axionlike particles

(PhysOrg.com) -- “Axionlike particles are interesting because they come up regularly when scientists study string theory. By looking at their properties, you hope to learn about string theory, or some other unified theory ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 18 feature

Is Everything Made of Mini Black Holes?

(PhysOrg.com) -- In trying to understand how gravity behaves on the quantum scale, physicists have developed a model that has an interesting implication: mini black holes could be everywhere, and all particles ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (60) | comments 56 weblog

Graphene Yields Secrets to Its Extraordinary Properties

(PhysOrg.com) -- Applying innovative measurement techniques, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have directly measured the unusual energy ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (26) | comments 0

The day the universe froze: New dark energy model includes cosmological phase transition

Imagine a time when the entire universe froze. According to a new model for dark energy, that is essentially what happened about 11.5 billion years ago, when the universe was a quarter of the size it is today.

Physics / General Physics

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (23) | comments 16

The MAGIC-II Telescope is ready to team up

(PhysOrg.com) -- Together with the MAGIC-I telescope, MAGIC-2 allows stereoscopic observations using these two largest gamma-ray telescopes. Astronomers can explore sources of very-high energy gamma rays. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

'Cold fusion' rebirth? New evidence for existence of controversial energy source

Researchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the process once called "cold fusion" that may promise a new source of energy. One group ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (48) | comments 59

New experiments constrain Higgs mass (w/Videos)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The territory where the Higgs boson may be found continues to shrink. The latest analysis of data from the CDF and DZero collider experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab now ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Atmospheric 'sunshade' could reduce solar power generation

The concept of delaying global warming by adding particles into the upper atmosphere to cool the climate could unintentionally reduce peak electricity generated by large solar power plants by as much as one-fifth, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 27

Explaining the Mystery of the Voyager

With a new 3D-model for energy simulation scientists from Bochum, Germany, and Huntsville, USA, are studying the 'physical mystery' of the Voyager. Over 30 years ago the spacecraft detected particles in solar wind which were ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 2

IceCube building goals exceeded at South Pole

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the 2008-09 Antarctic drilling season concludes, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is on track to be finished as planned in 2011.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Probing Question: Could the Large Hadron Collider swallow the Earth?

Nestled 570 feet beneath the Alps on the Swiss-French border is the world’s largest physics experiment — the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Constructed for $8.8 billion by the European Organization for Nuclear ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (16) | comments 71