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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 ...

Physics / General Physics

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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

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Researchers send 'wireless' message using neutrinos

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of scientists led by researchers from the University of Rochester and North Carolina State University have for the first time sent a message using a beam of neutrinos – nearly ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (47) | comments 38 | with audio podcast

New measurements of W boson mass point to Higgs mass and test Standard Model

(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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

New map of the universe reveals its history for the past six-billion years

The scientists of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including astronomers at Penn State, have produced a new map of the universe that is in full color, covers more than one quarter of the entire sky, and ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Researchers measure and model inhomogeneous energy landscapes in graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- If graphene is to live up to its promise as a revolutionary component of future electronics, the interactions between graphene and the surrounding materials in a device must be understood and controlled. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Particle physicists report 'intriguing hints' of Higgs Boson

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 ...

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created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 27

Possible signs of the Higgs remain in latest analyses (Update)

(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 ...

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created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

The secrets of tunneling through energy barriers

Electrons moving in graphene behave in an unusual way, as demonstrated by 2010 Nobel Prize laureates for physics Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, who performed transport experiments on this one-carbon-atom-thick material. ...

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created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 10

Scientists detect unusual 'quasiparticles' in tri-layer graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- By studying three layers of graphene -- sheets of honeycomb-arrayed carbon atoms -- stacked in a particular way, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Could the Higgs boson explain the size of the Universe?

(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.

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created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (25) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

How slow is slow? EXO knows

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cooks think of watched pots. Handymen grumble about drying paint. Kids dread the endless night before Christmas morning.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast


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