Thunderstorms hurling antimatter into space caught by Fermi (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before.
Earth Sciences
Jan 11, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cosmologists at UCL (University College London) are a step closer to determining the mass of the elusive neutrino particle, not by using a giant particle detector, but by gazing up into space.
General Physics
Jun 22, 2010
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Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe.
General Physics
Mar 19, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At a meeting this week of the American Physical Society in Washington, MIT Associate Professor of Physics Bernd Surrow reported on new results from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 17, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In December, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, shattered the world record for highest energy particle collisions.
General Physics
Feb 5, 2010
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(AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher has recorded its first high-energy collisions of protons, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
General Physics
Dec 9, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Harvard theoretical physicist has discussed with scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland the possibility that they may discover a theorized "stau" particle, with a lifetime of a minute or ...
General Physics
Nov 12, 2009
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Sometimes, the best place to hide a secret is in broad daylight. Just ask the sun.
Astronomy
Aug 3, 2023
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For decades, astronomers and physicists have been trying to solve one of the deepest mysteries about the cosmos: An estimated 85% of its mass is missing. Numerous astronomical observations indicate that the visible mass in ...
General Physics
Dec 9, 2022
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Supersymmetry is an extension to the Standard Model that may explain the origin of dark matter and pave the way to a grand unified theory of nature. For each particle of the Standard Model, supersymmetry introduces an exotic ...
General Physics
May 18, 2017
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