News tagged with unified theories
Making magnetic monopoles, and other exotica, in the lab
Physicist Shou-Cheng Zhang has proposed a way to physically realize the magnetic monopole. In a paper published online in the January 29 issue of Science Express, Zhang and post-doctoral collaborator Xiao-Liang ...
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DNA tug of war
A mathematical model created by Aalto University (Finland) researcher Timo Ikonen explains for the first time how the DNA chains in our genome are translocated through nanopores that are only a couple of nanometres thick.
May 11, 2012 |
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Rock sleuths: Researchers seek clues to atmospheric changes ahead of animal life
For more than a decade, scientists have dismissed claims that examining carbon-rich rocks could yield clues to the atmospheric and oceanic conditions on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, but now researchers ...
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Mar 20, 2012 |
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ARRA-enabled 'Barracuda' computing cluster allows scientists to team up on larger problems
Within the Department of Energy’s (DOE) EMSL, new high-performance computing breakthroughs often are the result of combining the best of two worlds. Experimental and computational tools are integrated; ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 20, 2012 |
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Looking at quantum gravity in a mirror
Einstein's theory of gravity and quantum physics are expected to merge at the Planck-scale of extremely high energies and on very short distances. At this scale, new phenomena could arise. However, the Planck-scale ...
Mar 18, 2012 |
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Tevatron experiments report latest results in search for Higgs boson
(PhysOrg.com) -- New measurements announced today by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory indicate that the elusive Higgs ...
Mar 07, 2012 |
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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 ...
Mar 02, 2012 |
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They're mastering manufacturing
For millions of HIV-positive people in the developing world, accurate measurement of their medical condition is invaluable. So in recent years, Daktari Diagnostics, a Cambridge-based startup, has been developing ...
Mar 01, 2012 |
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When continents collide: A new twist to a 50 million-year-old tale
Fifty million years ago, India slammed into Eurasia, a collision that gave rise to the tallest landforms on the planet, the Himalaya Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 29, 2012 |
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World's best measurement of W boson mass tests Standard Model, Higgs boson limits
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as firemen use different methods to narrow the location of a person trapped in a building, scientists employ two techniques to find the hiding place of the theorized Higgs particle: direct ...
Feb 23, 2012 |
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Researchers uncover a mechanism to explain dune field patterns
In a study of the harsh but beautiful White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, University of Pennsylvania researchers have uncovered a unifying mechanism to explain dune patterns. The new work represents a contribution ...
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Feb 06, 2012 |
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