On September 10, 2008, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) fired up for the very first time. In the decade since, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator has been responsible for some of the most important breakthroughs in scientific history, most notably the discovery of the Higgs boson in
Author: Megan Williamson
Weather Channel Uses Mixed Reality to Demonstrate the Dangers of Hurricane Florence
Mixed reality is a fairly new development that allows us to experience a broad range of hypothetical scenarios in real time, resulting in powerful simulations. Unlike its equally effective equivalent of augmented reality, it uses virtual objects to give the appearance that they are existing in the real world. In whatever
Hubble Takes Spectacular Photo of Vast Galaxy Cluster
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular image showing a vast collection of galaxies located around 4 billion light-years from Earth. The cluster, known as Abell 370—located in the constellation Cetus—is the first target of a new Hubble mission known as the BUFFALO survey, which aims to broaden our understanding of
7 Quantum Particles Act Like Billions in Weird Physics Experiment
Physicists have revealed that just seven quantum particles can behave as if they were in a crowd of billions. At larger scales, matter goes through changes, called phase transitions, in which (for example) water turns into a solid (ice) or a vapor (steam). Scientists were used to seeing this behavior in large
Report recommends NASA build new space telescope to look at exoplanets directly
A new report mandated by the US Congress recommends that NASA should embark on a new tranche of exoplanet missions to determine if the solar system is a rarity and whether life exists elsewhere in the universe. The "Exoplanet Science Strategy" report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
We can make the Sahara Desert green again through clean energy
The study, reported in the journal Science on September 7, 2018, is among the first to model the climate effects of wind and solar installations while taking into account how vegetation responds to changes in heat and precipitation, said lead author Yan Li, a postdoctoral researcher in natural resources and
We Can Now Easily 3D Print With Metal
THE NEXT LEVEL. We can now 3D print pretty much anything from seemingly any material. Want to print a house out of concrete, a human cornea out of a bio-ink, or a pizza out of dough, sauce, and cheese? Piece of (3D-printed) cake. The one material that’s proven a bit trickier, though, is metal. Industrial printers are up
Researchers ‘teleport’ a quantum gate
Yale University researchers have demonstrated one of the key steps in building the architecture for modular quantum computers: the "teleportation" of a quantum gate between two qubits, on demand. The findings appear online Sept. 5 in the journal Nature. The key principle behind this new work is quantum teleportation, a unique feature
Dark Energy Might Not Exist After All, Physicist Says
Dark energy—the hypothetical force that scientists believe makes up the bulk of the universe and is driving its expansion—might not exist. Professor Subir Sarkar, a particle physicist at the U.K.’s University of Oxford, said that as we gather more evidence about the universe and its expansion, the case for dark
Industry-research collaboration highlights printable solar panels
An Australian physicist is leading a push to pioneer a new type of low-cost solar energy he believes could make signing up for energy accounts as straightforward as signing up for a mobile phone plan. University of Newcastle Physicist, Professor Paul Dastoor, and his team of 30 researchers are already well
Researchers Develop Drugs to Curb Smokers’ Desire for Nicotine
Washington State University researchers have created more than a dozen candidate drugs with the potential to curb smokers' desire for nicotine by slowing how it is broken down in the body. The researchers hope the substances can help people reduce their consumption of tobacco, if not quit altogether. The discovery, published
Successful testing gives NASA’s Advanced Electric Propulsion System a boost
The next-generation ion engine that may one day send American astronauts to Mars has passed a major milestone. Working in coordination with NASA engineers from Glenn Research and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Aerojet Rocketdyne says it has completed its early systems integration test of the Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS)