Physical Sciences

All-Natural Single-Celled Diatom Could Make Paints And Cosmetics 'Green'

A plant-like micro-organism mostly found in oceans could make the manufacture of products, from iridescent cosmetics, paints and fabrics to credit card holograms, cheaper and ‘greener’. The tiny single-celled ‘diatom’, which first evolved hundreds of milli ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2007 - 12:57pm

I Zwicky 18 'Baby' Galaxy Not So Young After All

Observations of I Zwicky 18 at the Palomar Observatory around 40 years ago seemed to show that it was one of the youngest galaxies in the nearby Universe. The studies suggested that the galaxy had erupted with star formation billions of years after its gal ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2007 - 11:16am

All Eyes Turn To NGC 2770 For A Supernova Birth

Astronomers have seen the aftermath of spectacular stellar explosions known as supernovae before, but until now no one has witnessed a star dying in real time. While looking at another object in the spiral galaxy NGC 2770, using NASA’s orbiting Swift teles ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2008 - 1:26pm

The Higgs Potential: Source Of All Our Troubles

The slide below was shown yesterday at an invited talk that Antonio Masiero gave in the University of Bologna, during an open session of the CMS Physics week (see, I am careful to note I am not breaking any rules by showing material relevant to internal CM ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 10 2009 - 12:52pm

All Women Team Runs The CMS Experiment On March 8th

On March 8th, international women day, the CMS experiment at CERN will be run almost entirely by women. 32 of the 34 shifts needed to run our experiment will be covered by women scientists of our Collaboration- which counts 588 women overall. I think this ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 6 2010 - 9:56am

Quaternionic Equations Of Motion For All Elementary Particles

This article eliminates the need for the Higgs. The quaternionic equation of motion of an elementary particle is in fact a continuity equation in which another quaternionic flavor ψʸ of the transporting field ψˣ is coupled with that transporting field via ...

Article - Hans van Leunen - Feb 15 2012 - 2:19pm

All Hail...Arsenic?

Even though arsenic is toxic for many organs in the human body, it is used in therapeutic medicine and the treatment of some forms of cancer, and is an active component of drugs against parasitic diseases. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2012 - 6:00am

Vega, The One Star Brightness To Rule Them All, Is A Little Older Than Thought

Vega is a summer star in the Northern Hemisphere, visible toward the west at sunset. Vega is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra and, at only 25 light years away, quite close, cosmically speaking.  Due to its brightness, Vega has been used by ast ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2012 - 12:32pm

Sorry Vulcan, Kerberos and Styx Know All The Right People

The International Astronomical Union, which declared itself the arbiter of names for the entire universe, is in hot water with "Star Trek" fans. A social media campaign, including endorsements by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, put Vulcan at t ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 7 2013 - 7:06pm

Anomalous Whew: Particles Near Absolute Zero Don't Break The Laws Of Physics After All

The laws of physics are absolute- in theory.  And with an exception. So absolute doesn't always mean what we think it means. How heat and temperature related to energy, the laws of thermodynamics, seem to violate the laws of physics theoretically. But ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2014 - 9:29am