Physical Sciences

Nuclear disasters, such as Japan's, due to natural disaster can happen anywhere! Here is why and what we can do about it.

 This means that all supporting machinery could fail and the reactor would not melt down.  The reactor ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Mar 15 2011 - 3:36pm

Why Does A Moving Bicycle Stay Up?

exactly the right roughness and stiffness. In Sporthal II of TU Delft we found all the right ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2011 - 8:05pm

Did Atlas Just See The Higgs?

above. CDF sees no excess at all at 115 GeV; DZERO sees some upward fluke, at the level of 1.5 standard ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 25 2011 - 2:53pm

The Weird Accident Behind The Invention Of Silly Putty

Japan controlled all of the natural sources.   They spent over a year experimenting with different ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2011 - 3:13pm

Light-Emitting Top Quark Pairs

expected, after all is said and done, amounts to exactly three standard deviations. Unlike mass bump hunts, ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 21 2011 - 9:17am

The Plot Of The Week- MSSM Higgs Limits

distinguish the decays of Higgs bosons to tau lepton pairs from all the concurring backgrounds. The figure on ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 28 2011 - 11:05pm

A simulation of Joy Christian's two hemispheres Bell experiment

 Maybe this would have lead to some extra insight about the theorem- all this nonsensical talk about ...

Blog Post - Stephen Lee - Jul 2 2011 - 9:54am

Higgs or No Higgs? A Fortunate Analogy

of all wonders: a car is moving smoothly but there is no engine inside.  So how does it move? I think ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 3 2011 - 7:36am

Justifying The Love For The Strong Equivalence Principle

mass goes into the Ricci tensor. In a vacuum, the curvature of spacetime all flows from the Ricci ...

Article - Doug Sweetser - Aug 12 2011 - 11:35pm

The Plot Of The Week- Heavy Particle Production In ATLAS

up converging on the definition of graphs which are better than all others in this respect. There is ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 25 2011 - 11:07am