CERN scientists find the ‘God particle’
The five-decade-long hunt for the elusive Higgs boson or the ‘God particle’ has reached a milestone, with scientists at the CERN claiming on Wednesday that they have discovered a new subatomic particle that looks like the one believed [...]
Silicon trick for next-gen memory
Researchers have revealed details of a promising way to make a fundamentally different kind of computer memory chip.The device is a “memristor”, a long-hypothesised but only recently demonstrated electronic component.A memristor’s [...]
CERN director says LHC will find God Particle by end of the year
The Large Hadron Collider is to be switched off at the end of the year to undergo a major upgrade, but scientists hope to have achieved one of the machine’s major goals by the time it does – proving the existence of the so called God [...]
5 Things Jenga Can Teach Us About Structural Engineering
Humans are natural-born structural engineers. If you find that hard to believe, watch a small child play with a set of simple wooden blocks. With no outside instruction — and through lots of energetic trial and error — he or she [...]
Trilayer graphene exhibits quantum effect
Three could be the magic number for making spintronic devices from thin carbon sheets
When stacked like lasagna noodles, the thinnest material on the planet changes what it can do — and what those trying to make devices out of it might do [...]
BepiColombo Planetary Orbiter and Transfer Module mated for first time
The Structural and Thermal Models of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter and Mercury Transfer Module were mated for the first time on 11 April 2012. The mating was performed to accurately position the inter-module hardware on the transfer [...]
Cosmic Train Wrecks – Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
“Observatory Nights” public lecture series from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Lauranne Lanz, CfA Five billion years from now, our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy. This will be an era of both [...]
Inside Clocky Pictures
The Clocky, the rolling alarm clock presents an edge on traditional alarm clocks. If you hit the snooze bar more than once, it rolls off your nightstand and moves around your room. The same thing happens if you wait too long to turn off the [...]
Breaking the universal speed limit
The yellow line shows the path of a 17-mile-long circular tunnel near Geneva, Switzerland, used to speed up tiny particles for a large scientific project called CERN. Neutrinos generated at CERN traveled through the earth to a detector in [...]
Ultraviolet link to cold winters
Snow and ice has brought disruption to the UK in recent winters – and the varying Sun could be responsibleRecent cold winters that brought chaos to the UK and other places in northern Europe may have their roots in the Sun’s varying [...]
