News tagged with physical laboratory

Leading the quest to crack cosmological mysteries

Sometimes a scientist can only laugh in the face of a seemingly insurmountable challenge.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (14) | comments 125 | with audio podcast

The future of Fermilab

In this month's Physics World, reviews and careers editor, Margaret Harris, visits the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) to explore what future projects are in the pipeline now that the Tevatron particle accele ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The art of stabilizing entangled spaghetti-like materials

Gene therapy can only be effective if delivered by a stable complex molecule. Now, scientists have determined the conditions that would stabilise complex molecular structures that are subject to inherent attractions and repulsions ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Shutdown looms at pioneering American atom smasher

(AP) -- Aside from the slogan on the water tower that reads "City of Energy," there is little in this leafy Chicago suburb of gently rolling hills to indicate that it has been the center of the universe when ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Tevatron retires: The era of big American physics about to end

The era of big American physics ends Friday with the retirement of the Tevatron particle accelerator, which has been recreating the Big Bang under four miles of Illinois prairie for 25 years.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 16

Applying particle physics expertise to cancer therapy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are working with medical researchers at Loma Linda University Medical Center to develop a new imaging technology to guide proton therapy ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 13, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Particle collision thought to replicate Big Bang forces, may help explain how things exist

By the logic of science, things simply shouldn't exist. The best scientific minds of several generations have reasoned that shortly after the Big Bang created the universe, matter and antimatter should have wiped each other ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (22) | comments 30

Scientists find evidence for significant matter-antimatter asymmetry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced Friday, May 14, that they have found evidence for significant violation ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (41) | comments 86 | with audio podcast

Scientist explore future of high-energy physics

In a 1954 speech to the American Physical Society, the University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi fancifully envisioned a particle accelerator that encircled the globe. Such would be the ultimate theoretical outcome, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 09, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Nobel Physics laureates undeserving, colleagues say: report

Former colleagues of two American scientists who won the 2009 Nobel physics prize say the winners, Willard Boyle and George Smith, did not deserve the award, Canada's Globe and Mail reported Tuesday.

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 5

Honey, I Blew up the Tokamak

Magnetic reconnection could be the Universe's favorite way to make things explode. It operates anywhere magnetic fields pervade space--which is to say almost everywhere. On the sun magnetic reconnection causes ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 8

Jet lag disturbs sleep by upsetting internal clocks in 2 neural centers

Jet lag is the bane of many travelers, and similar fatigue can plague people who work in rotating shifts. Scientists know the problem results from disruption to the body's normal rhythms and are getting closer to a better ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Fermilab collider experiments discover rare single top quark

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have observed particle collisions that produce single top quarks. The discovery ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 8

Cosmic rays detected deep underground reveal secrets of the upper atmosphere (Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cosmic-rays detected half a mile underground in a disused U.S. iron-mine can be used to detect major weather events occurring 20 miles up in the Earth's upper atmosphere, a new study has revealed.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1


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