Physics

Sam Ting On AMS Results: Dark Matter Might Be One Seminar Away

Last Friday Samuel Ting, the winner of the 1975 Nobel prize in Physics for the co-discovery of the J/ψ particle, gave a seminar in the packed CERN main auditorium on the latest results from AMS, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer installed on the internationa ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 29 2014 - 5:33am

Factor In Space Bubbles Or The Terrorists Win

In the early morning hours of March 4th, 2002, a reconnaissance team of US Navy SEALs became pinned down on the ridge dividing the Upper and Lower Shahikot valley in Afghanistan. A Chinook helicopter with 21 men on a mission to rescue them was heading for ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2014 - 1:06pm

Small Is Ugly 2

The very small is very weird; I explained that the last time in Small Is Ugly 1 already with help of the example of water being in the driest of places (Vastness and Fastness of the Small helps Evolution is of course somewhat related). And today, I still ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 26 2014 - 4:37am

Donate To Sense About Science!

Sense About Science is a non-profit organization that campaigns in favour of more correct diffusion and use of scientific information. It is a great attempt at increasing the quality of the scientific information in circulation, focusing on evidence and de ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 29 2014 - 5:49am

Top Mass: CMS Again On Top!

I wonder how interesting can be to an outsider to learn that the mass of the sixth quark is now known to 0.38% accuracy, thanks to the combination of measurements of that quantity performed by the CMS experiment at CERN. In fact, the previously best measur ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 30 2014 - 6:30am

Emergence: The Remarkable Simplicity Of Complexity

Patterns of emergence are all around us. Credit: Feliciano Guimarães /Flickr, CC BY By Andy Martin, University of Melbourne and Kristian Helmerson, Monash University From the fractal patterns of snowflakes to cellular lifeforms, our universe is full of co ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 1 2014 - 9:01am

Sterile Neutrinos Remain Elusive

BEIJING; BERKELEY, CA; and UPTON, NY- The Daya Bay Collaboration, an international group of scientists studying the subtle transformations of subatomic particles called neutrinos, is publishing its first results on the search for a so-called sterile neutr ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2014 - 1:05pm

Streaming Of My Talk On "Publish, Blog, Tweet: Furthering One's Career In Science"

Last Thursday and Friday I attended a workshop aimed at students of science communication and researchers who want to use the web tools to improve their collaboration networks and the visibility of their scientific output. I gave a talk discussing the good ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 8 2014 - 5:16am

Can You Find This San Francisco Chronicle Article For Me?

At the workshop I attended last week ("Publish, blog, tweet- furthering one's career in science") I discussed blogging for a researcher. One of the points I made was that through a blog a researcher may sometimes ask for the help of his or h ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 5 2014 - 1:46pm

The Quote Of The Week- A Between-The-Lines Accusation Of Scientific Fraud

"Fermilab has very actively tried to scoop us by press release, even though their uncertainties are under serious challenge and they knew our measurements even before they released theirs." Michael Riordan, a member to the Mark II collaboration, ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 7 2014 - 9:13am