Roughly once a year, the smallest Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment, LHC-forward (LHCf), is taken out of its dedicated storage on the site near the ATLAS experiment, reinstalled in the LHC tunnel, and put to use investigating ...
General Physics
Nov 21, 2016
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One of the largest projects being undertaken at the CERN research center near Geneva - the ATLAS Experiment - is about to be upgraded. ATLAS played a crucial role in the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. With a length ...
General Physics
Nov 15, 2016
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Following seven successful months of colliding proton beams with each other in the search for new fundamental particles, the LHC today began colliding proton beams with beams made up of heavy ions – the nuclei of lead atoms.
General Physics
Nov 11, 2016
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Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a tsunami of stars and gas that is crashing midway through the disk of a spiral galaxy known as IC 2163. This colossal wave of material ...
Astronomy
Nov 4, 2016
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UPDATE: Ground controllers re-established full links Sunday with a European-Russian Mars orbiter which worryingly stopped sending status updates after releasing a lander on a three-day trek to the Red Planet's surface.
Space Exploration
Oct 17, 2016
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How do you make half the mass of two continents disappear? To answer that question, you first need to discover that it's missing.
Earth Sciences
Oct 5, 2016
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We don't want to scare you, but our own Milky Way is on a collision course with Andromeda, the closest spiral galaxy to our own. At some point during the next few billion years, our galaxy and Andromeda – which also happen ...
Astronomy
Oct 3, 2016
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Part of the Anti-Atlas mountains bordering the Sahara Desert in western Algeria is pictured in this satellite image.
Earth Sciences
Sep 30, 2016
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The European Space Agency says it has lost contact with its Rosetta probe after it hit the surface of a comet, marking the planned end of a 12-year mission.
Space Exploration
Sep 30, 2016
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Researchers suspected that experience with passing vehicles may cause birds to adjust their avoidance responses-specifically, to increase their flight initiation distances-to keep from being hit. Instead, though, they recently ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 19, 2016
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