The Worldwide LHC ComputingGrid is gearing up to handle the massive amount of data expected shortly after the restart of the Large Hadron Collider. Read how CERN is preparing to take record-setting amounts of data in this Interactions press release. And  read in the press release below how Brookhaven National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will lead the U.S. portion of [...]
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There was a strong science vibe in New York City as the World Science Festival rang in it's third year. A panel discussion on "Time Since Einstein" featured physicists George Ellis, Roger Penrose, Sean Carroll, and Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara, joined by the physics-savvy philosophers David Albert and Michael Heller.
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An international team of researchers has discovered strong evidence that extremely energetic cosmic rays are born in supernova remnants.
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At a recent physics seminar at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab physicist Pat Lukens of the CDF experiment announced the observation of a new particle, the Omega-sub-b. The particle contains three quarks, two strange quarks and a bottom quark (s-s-b). It is an exotic relative of the much more common proton and has about six times the proton's mass.
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Speaking to a crowd of more than 800 this morning at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu urged researchers to confront what he called "the energy challenge."
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Particle physics feels like a different enterprise compared with one year ago. Rapid scientific progress and a new budget scenario have enlivened the field.
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"When questions arise about how the Higgs boson connects to buying another bag of groceries, we need to pay attention, because our fellow tax-paying citizens are the ones who pay the bills for US particle physics. They have a right to know what they are getting."
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The real world of Angels & Demons CMS digs Roman history sand and silence in Morocco carpenters carve an ATLAS battle of the buzzer at SLAC what's in your office?
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A summary of recent stories, published weekdays, in symmetry breaking, www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/
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In his first few months on the job, CERN Director-General Rolf-Dieter Heuer opens new lines of communication, oversees repairs to the Large Hadron Collider, and promotes a worldwide strategy for particle physics based on a strong mix of global, regional, and national projects.
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