Topic: Particle Physics
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Why hasn't everything been annihilated yet? Pear-shaped atomic nuclei could hold answer.
Why are you currently reading this on your screen, instead of having had all your atoms completely obliterated at the dawn of time? A pear-shaped nucleus might explain.
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Antimatter might fall up, say physicists
A paper published this week suggests that antimatter could exhibit antigravity, potentially resolving some of physics' biggest mysteries.
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God: Matter particle or Master Planner?
A Christian Science perspective.
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Beyond the Higgs boson: Five more elusive particles
The discovery of the Higgs boson greatly furthers our understanding of the fundamental constituents of matter, but some subatomic puzzle pieces still remain. Here are five types of bizarre particles that could turn up in atom-smashing experiments.
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Life after Higgs boson: What's next for the world's largest atom smasher?
It's a Higgs boson!! Now what? After confirming that the particle discovered last July really is a Higgs boson, the Large Hadron Collider is ready to look for other universes, figure out dark matter, recreate the Big Bang, or find something totally unexpected.
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'God Particle': Six big consequences of the Higgs boson discovery
'God Particle': Physicists announced Thursday that they have confirmed the existence of the so-called God Particle – a term disliked by physicists and theologians alike. Here are six of the biggest consequences of this discovery.
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Scientists confirm Higgs boson discovery
The particle detected last July by CERN's Large Hadron Collider is indeed the elusive Higgs boson, say researchers. The discovery completes the Standard Model of particle physics and could help predict the ultimate fate of the universe.
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Scientists say they are 99.6 percent certain they found Higgs boson
After thousands of checks, Italian scientists said the only remaining thing they need to check is that the Higgs-like particle they found last July isn't another subatomic particle called a graviton.
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Cosmic rays' mysterious origin? Supernovae to blame, study confirms.
A team of researchers found the 'unique, smoking-gun signature' of the creation of cosmic rays in the expanding shells cast off by supernovae.
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Top Picks: 'Friends' on Blu-ray, Led Zeppelin live DVD, and more
Relive all of 'Friends' with the new Blu-ray set, learn about Thomas Jefferson in Jon Meacham's new biography 'Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power,' and more top picks.
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US, French scientists awarded Nobel Prize in physics (+video)
David Wineland and Serge Haroche will share this year's Nobel prize for their work in quantum physics.
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Dark Energy Camera whirs to life, begins snapping deep-space photos (+video)
Scientists think dark energy makes up 74 percent of the universe, yet they have very little idea what it is.
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The Monitor's View: Prepare for what Mars rover Curiosity and other 'big science' may reveal
The rover Curiosity could soon beam back evidence of past (or current) life on Mars. Like other recent news in basic science, humans must know how to absorb such challenges to understanding.
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Why Does the World Exist?
A simple question proves thorny in Jim Holt's new book.
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Is there an antimatter mirror universe? Massive space-based detector seeks to find out.
A massive particle detector on the International Space Station (ISS) aims to find out where all the antimatter went after the Big Bang.
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What does the Higgs boson sound like? Atom-smasher data set to music. (+video)
Researchers with CERN's ATLAS experiment, which helped discover what is thought to be the elusive Higgs boson, have taken their data and turned it into a piano score.
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Amid Higgs boson celebrations, Indians see a snub (+video)
As the world celebrates the discovery of what is thought to be the elusive Higgs boson, many Indians are saying that more attention needs to be given to the Indian scientist Satyendranath Bose, for whom the boson is named.
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How big is your infinite?
A Christian Science perspective: Recent news of the possibility of scientists' discovery of the subatomic particle Higgs boson, also known as the 'God particle,' evokes fresh thought about what makes up our world.
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Higgs boson: So who is getting the Nobel?
The discovery of a particle thought to be the elusive Higgs boson has prompted a new investigation: Whose names will be engraved on the Nobel Prize in Physics medal?
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Why the Higgs boson announcement is so important (+video)
The discovery of a new particle thought to be the elusive Higgs boson represents the culmination of nearly 50 years of research, and completes a theory about how the most basic constituents of matter interact with each other.
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Could the Higgs boson teach us anything about dark matter? (+video)
If the existence of the Higgs boson is confirmed, it would complete the Standard Model of particle physics. But does that bring us any closer to understanding a mysterious substance thought to account for more than four fifths of the total mass of the universe?
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Higgs boson: It appears to be there, but what is it? (+video)
Even if the newly discovered 'God particle' is not the Higgs boson as it was originally conceived, the implications of the new finding for science are still significant. The discovery is likely to provide the whole field of particle physics with a burst of momentum.
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So what exactly is this Higgs boson thing anyway? (+video)
Why do some call it the 'God particle'? And what, exactly, does it do?
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The Higgs boson by the numbers
Want to know more about the Higgs boson and the Large Hadron Collider? Here are the numbers.
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Higgs boson discovery could usher in 'new, wonderful technologies,' says physicist (+video)
Wichita State University physics director Nickolas Solomey, who spent seven years at CERN, says the discovery of the Higgs could take a long time to fully understand, but that it could lead to groundbreaking technologies.
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