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DISCOVERIES News, Dec 28, 2011

The Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at Cern
LHC reports discovery of its first new particle
BBC News
"So, it's helping put together that basic understanding that we have and need to do the new physics." Prof Paul Newman, from the University of Birmingham, added: "This is the first time such a new particle has been found at the LHC. Its discovery is a ...
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Christmas with Faraday: The Chemical History of a Candle
Scientific American (blog)
One of the earliest, on the chemistry and physics of flames, became a popular book: The ChemicalHistory of a Candle. These lectures were a gift that Faraday gave year after year to those who showed up to receive it: the gift of wonder at the natural ...
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HIGGS BOSON born of physicists' love of metaphor
Livemint
Or, later, Paul Dirac, the English physicist who, seeking mathematical elegance, forged bonds between Einstein's relativity and the quantum theory, and set the stage for physics today. The tentative discovery at CERN's Large Hadron Collider of the ...
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How Physics Got Weird
Wall Street Journal
The discovery of wave-particle duality in 1924 (by Louis de Broglie) and quantum uncertainty in 1927 (by Heisenberg) made quantum physics as much a branch of philosophy as science, stirring arguments that continue to the present day about how to ...
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Wall Street Journal
Final Proof that Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos are Impossible?
io9
For the last few months, physicists have been attempting to explain the apparent discovery of neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light. No one has as yet refuted this finding, but some other particles may refute these neutrinos' existence. ...
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Top Scientific Discoveries of 2011
Wired News (blog)
Most physicists dismissed the finding, suggesting some error in the measurement or analysis, but that didn't stop millions of people from hoping that they'd witnessed the start of a new scientific revolution. Rigorously tested and documented, ...
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Wired News (blog)
'Physics on the Fringe' by Margaret Wertheim
The Boston Globe
... really, since many insiders have forcefully critiqued the superstringing of physics, the tendency, as Wertheim puts it, for enthusiasm about “possibilities inherent in the math'' rather than those revealed by “physical discoveries. ...
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Discovery of the chib(3p) particle
Examiner.com
While this new particle is very short lived, it shows that the underlying physics that we have developed is still displayed in nature which is good news for researchers looking for this Higgs Boson. It doesn't mean the Higgs does exist, it just means ...
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Prof seeks prehistoric environments in fossils
CTV.ca
REGINA — A University of Regina physics professor is using modern technology to examine some really old bones -- and it all started with his child's fascination with dinosaurs. Prof. Mauricio Barbi is using a synchrotron to take a deeper look inside ...
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NASA announces discovery of Earth-size planets that could possibly harbor life
The State Column
... deputy science team lead and professor of astronomy and physics at San Jose State University, said in a NASA press release. “We are on the edge of our seats knowing that Kepler's most anticipated discoveries are still to come,” Ms. Batalha said. ...
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The State Column
What's Behind Your Eyes? You'd Be Surprised.
ChicagoNow (blog)
By Jack Spatafora, today at 10:05 am Every day we read some new discovery. In the vast physicsof space right down to the intimate biology of us. Years ago, the author Marcel Proust put discoveryinto perspective: "The only true voyage of discovery ...
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Scientists come closer to predicting earthquakes
Deutsche Welle
That may be changing thanks to recent discoveries. Toads, breaking rocks and ozone gas might hold the clue to predicting earthquakes in the future and enable the development of an advance warning system that could save many lives. ...
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ATLAS Discovers New Chi_b Resonance
Science 2.0
Just as you thought it was over for 2011, and you proceeded to hung the Higgs mass plots on the christmas tree as a wish for stronger signals next year, ATLAS comes out with a new particlediscovery. That's what I like of particle physics - there's ...
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A weird and wonderful world of discovery
Irish Times
This year's crop threw up answers to some pressing questions – the 2011 prize in physicscelebrates a study from 2000 on why discus throwers report dizziness but hammer throwers don't. Researchers from France and The Netherlands pondered this apparent ...
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Could Starships Use Cold Fusion Propulsion?
Discovery News
Well, back in January, a paper appeared on the arXiv by Marc Millis, a former head of NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project, calculating the costs -- in terms of energy -- of a truly interstellar manned space mission. And it wasn't good news. ...
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B'lore professor backs Einstein theory
Deccan Herald
Einstein may be safe for the time being, thanks to a physicist with strong links to Bangalore. Three months after scientists stunned the world with their discovery of faster-than-light particles, Ramanath Cowsik, former director of Indian Institute of ...
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Deccan Herald
Scientific Renaissance in Muslim Countries
American Muslim
After all, the roots of the Valley' innovation – algorithms, Arabic numerals, astronomy, aviation, engineering, medicine, biology, physics – are watered in large part by the discoveries made during the Islamic Golden Age. For a Muslim visitor, though, ...
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See how much we don't know
Albany Democrat Herald
The discovery that was honored with the Nobel Prize for physics this year reminds us all — as if we needed a reminder — how much we do not know, especially about the cosmos, and how much there is yet to learn. In light of the recent news about a ...
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Physics' Crisis of Faith
First Things (blog)
It appears to be no more than a belief promoted by faith-based atheism (it can't be proven that God isn't there – that belief must be taken on faith) in its desperate attempt to avoid the implications of thediscoveries of modern science, ...
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Bankers, Precious Metals, And MF Global
Seeking Alpha
When we receive a massive default of gold and silver futures contracts that stand for delivery on the COMEX or LBM, or if the SLV and GLD default, then, and only then, will the public start to see true price discovery of physical gold and physical ...
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Stanford physicist Burton Richter's moderate approach to climate change ...
Stanford Report
For environmentalists, the best recent news is the discovery of shale gas in China. They can start switching from burning coal to natural gas for generating electricity. If you got one wish on international policy on climate change, what would it be? ...
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Stanford Report
Ask Father Paul-12-28-11
The Citizen.com (blog)
The new discovery calls into serious question the very foundation for Einstein's Theory of General Relativity on which all of modern physics is based. One of the Swiss scientists was quoted as saying, “this new discovery will completely change ...
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Censorship of science is acceptable when lives are at stake
Sydney Morning Herald
When physicists then discovered things such as atomic fission and the chain reaction, they realised these discoveries could be used for both good purposes (such as energy production) and bad purposes (such as weapons-making). ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Science Roundup – Chimp News, Rodent Empathy, Name That Whale Tune, Most ...
PlanetSave.com
These newest discoveries present yet another mystery to astrophysicists who have yet to puzzle out how such supermassive black holes form and evolve to such ginormous sizes. What About That God (Darn) Particle? (Higgs Boson? – CERN physicists tease ...
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Bridgeport High grad on Nobel Prize winning team
The Flint Journal - MLive.com
BRIDGEPORT — A Bridgeport High School graduate is sharing some of the credit for the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics. Greg Aldering, a 1979 Bridgeport graduate, is a member of a research team in California that won the prestigious award for itsdiscovery ...
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