Physics
- Magnetic Nanocubes Self-assemble Into Helical Superstructures
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Materials made from nano-particles have long been touted as the future viable solar energy production and better touch screens. The black box between the present and the future of these wonder-materials is organizing the nanoparticles into orderly arrange ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2014 - 1:30pm
- The Irony Of Twelve Triple Three
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The NSA is not allowed to gather intel on US citizens (at least not without a FISA court order), but there is an obscure Reagan era loophole--Executive Order 12333, or Twelve Triple Three--that allows NSA to scoop up data on millions of Americans and store ...
Article - Steve Schuler - Sep 6 2014 - 2:56am
- The Quote Of The Week- Richter On The Landscape
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"If you have seen the movie Particle Fever about the discovery of the Higgs boson, you have heard the theorists saying that the only choices today are between Super-symmetry and the Landscape. Don’t believe them. Super-symmetry says that every fermion ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 8 2014 - 7:55am
- Buckyballs And Diamondoids: An Unlikely Teamup To Make Chip Components Molecule-Sized
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By pairing two unconventional forms of carbon – one shaped like a soccer ball, the other a tiny diamond – scientists have created a molecule that acts as a rectifier- it conducts electricity in only one direction, which means it could be possible to cheap ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2014 - 8:54am
- George Zweig's Brilliant Intuition And Van Hove's Horrible Censorship
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One year ago I had the pleasure to spend some time with George Zweig during a conference in Crete (ICNFP 2013). He is a wonderful storyteller and a great chap to hung around with, and I had great fun in the after-dinners on the terrace of the Orthodox Acad ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 17 2014 - 4:53am
- The Crackpot Conundrum
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The field of physics attracts crackpots. It is impossible to completely avoid them, and after a nasty incident in 1952 with an actually mentally ill individual who was upset no one would listen to his theories concluding electrons don't exist, the Ame ...
Blog Post - Edward "Henry" Brown - Sep 9 2014 - 6:06pm
- Life After The 125 GeV Higgs: What Is Left Of Two-Higgs Doublet Models
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I just read with interest the new paper on the arxiv by my INFN-Padova colleague Massimo Passera and collaborators, titled " Limiting Two-Higgs Doublet Models ", and I thought I would explain to you here why I consider it very interesting and wha ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 13 2014 - 11:32am
- ATLAS Higgs Challenge Results
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After four months of frenzy by over 1500 teams, the very successful Higgs Challenge launched by the ATLAS collaboration ended yesterday, and the "private leaderboard" with the final standings has been revealed. You can see the top 20 scorers belo ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 16 2014 - 5:08am
- John Ellis On The Ascent Of The Standard Model
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Being at CERN for a couple of weeks, I could not refrain from following yesterday's talks in the Main Auditorium, which celebrated the 90th birthday of Herwig Schopper, who directed CERN in the crucial years of the LEP construction. A talk I found mos ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 17 2014 - 4:27am
- Dark Matter Is A Bose-Einstein Condensate?
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What is dark matter? No one can say because it can't be detected or measured, but in science inference can help and we know that something is making gravity not work properly at the large scale. What we know as matter- stars, planets, us and other or ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2014 - 4:24pm