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Puzzling asymmetries in B decays hint at deviations from the Standard Model

(Phys.org) -- In a recently published paper, the LHCb Collaboration has reported on a possible deviation from the Standard Model. Theorists are now working to calculate precisely this effect and to evaluate ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

Computers excel at identifying smiles of frustration (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have trained computers to recognize smiles, and they have turned out to be more adept at recognizing smiles of frustration ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Landmark calculation clears the way to answering how matter is formed

(Phys.org) -- An international collaboration of scientists, including Thomas Blum, associate professor of physics, is reporting in landmark detail the decay process of a subatomic particle called a kaon – ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (34) | comments 62 | with audio podcast

Newfound exoplanet may turn to dust

Researchers at MIT, NASA and elsewhere have detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent star. The scientists infer that a ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

New Interstellar Boundary Explorer data show heliosphere's long-theorized bow shock does not exist

For the last few decades, space scientists have generally accepted that the bubble of gas and magnetic fields generated by the sun – known as the heliosphere – moves through space, creating three ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Algorithmic incentives: New twist on 30 year-old work could lead to better ways of structuring contracts

In 1993, MIT cryptography researchers Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali shared in the first Gödel Prize for theoretical computer science for their work on interactive proofs — a type of mathematic ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Turing was right: Two proteins fit decades-old prediction

Today, Alan Turing is best known as the father of modern computer science, but in 1952 he sketched out a biological model in which two chemicals — an activator and an inhibitor — could interact to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hinode and SOHO paint an asymmetrical picture of the Sun

Approximately every 11 years the magnetic field on the sun reverses completely – the north magnetic pole switches to south, and vice versa. It's as if a bar magnet slowly lost its magnetic field and regained ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

H3+: The molecule that made the Universe

(Phys.org) -- In a study that pushed quantum mechanical theory and research capabilities to the limit, University of Arizona researchers have found a way to see the molecule that likely made the universe - ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Herschel spots comet massacre around nearby star

(Phys.org) -- ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory has studied the dusty belt around the nearby star Fomalhaut. The dust appears to be coming from collisions that destroy up to thousands of icy comets every ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast


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