Age of the universe: Planck results show universe is 13.82 billion years old.

The Universe is a wee bit older than we thought. Not only that, but turns out the ingredients are a little bit different, too. And not only that, but the way they’re mixed isn’t quite what we expected, either. And not only that, but there are hints and whispers of…   Original post on slate.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Nature News Blog: Hot stuff: CERN physicists create record-breaking subatomic soup: Nature News Blog

Get Guinness. Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have achieved the hottest manmade temperatures ever, by colliding lead ions to momentarily create a quark gluon plasma, a subatomic soup and unique state of matter that is thought to have existed just moments after the Big Bang. Read more   Original post on nature.com    Comments on reddit.com   

The beginnings of life: Chemistry’s grand question – The Curious Wavefunction, Scientific American Blog Network

Thursday 26th July saw the launch of SciLogs.com, a new English language science blog network. SciLogs.com, the brand-new home for Nature Network bloggers, forms part of the SciLogs…   Original post on scientificamerican.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Physicists produce highest man-made temperature: 7 trillion degrees – latimes.com

Physicists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have produced what Guinness World Records says is the highest man-made temperature ever, 7.2 trillion degrees.   Original post on latimes.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Does the Early Universe Harbor Evidence of Time Before the Big Bang? (Today’s Most Popular)

In the summer of 2011, a team of physicists studying the cosmic microwave background (CMB), light emitted when the Universe was just 400,000 years old claimed that our view of the early Universe may contain the signature of a time…   Original post on dailygalaxy.com    Comments on digg.com