Researchers from the Alpha experiment at Cern report results from their first bid to determine if ghostly antimatter is a source of Original post on bbc.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
A radical theory predicting the existence of “time crystals” — perpetual motion objects that break the symmetry of time — is being put to the test. Original post on wired.com Comments on reddit.com
Kiera Wilmot got good grades and had a perfect behavior record. She wasn’t the kind of kid you’d expect to… Original post on miaminewtimes.com Comments on reddit.com
Diederik Stapel, a Dutch social psychologist, perpetrated an audacious academic fraud by making up studies that told the world what it wanted to hear about human nature. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
A home science experiment that probed billions of Internet devices reveals that thousands of industrial and business systems offer remote access to anyone. Original post on technologyreview.com Comments on reddit.com
Researchers revisit measurements to determine the temperature of the Earth’s core, finding it to be 6,000C – as hot as the surface of the Sun. Original post on bbc.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Two high school students posed the question Original post on hngn.com Comments on reddit.com
Understanding how and why diversification occurs is important for understanding why there are so many species on Earth. In a new study published on 19 February in the open access journal PLOS Biology, researchers show that similar—or even identical—mutations can… Original post on dailygalaxy.com Comments on reddit.com
Technique could be sensitive enough to detect structure of a single protein. Original post on nature.com Comments on reddit.com
A controversial theory of smell involving quantum physics receives a boost as scientists test the idea using human subjects. Original post on bbc.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Mars Mission Could Turn Astronauts Into Couch Potatoes – ScienceNOW Original post on sciencemag.org Comments on reddit.com
Latest release from the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) has indicated that scientists have found two particles contending for the title of Higgs boson. Original post on india.com Comments on reddit.com
The presidential candidates may not have talked much about climate change or our declining infrastructure, but families sure are after countless power outages. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
Tabletop experiment proposed to show whether space-time is made of indivisible units. Original post on nature.com Comments on reddit.com
Combustion experiments conducted in zero gravity yield surprising results Original post on smithsonianmag.com Comments on reddit.com
Four years after its closure, researchers working with data from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center’s particle physics experiment BaBar (pictured right, in Menlo Park, California) have used the data to make the first direct measurement confirming that time does not run the same forwards as backwards – at least for the B mesons that the experiment produced during its heyday. Read more Original post on nature.com Comments on reddit.com
Controversial US businessman’s iron fertilisation off west coast of Canada contravenes two UN conventions Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The government of Honduras has signed a deal with private investors for the construction of three privately run cities with their own legal and tax systems. The memorandum of agreement signed Tuesday is part of a controversial experiment meant to bring badly needed economic growth to this small Central American country. Original post on seattlepi.com Comments on reddit.com
NEW YORK (Reuters) – So many scientific studies are making incorrect claims that a new service has sprung up to fact-check reported findings by repeating the experiments.A year-old Palo Alto, California, Original post on reuters.com Comments on reddit.com
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
Our friend Mark Rober from NASA makes some awesome videos, but this science experiment must be his best yet. He basically showed that six percent of the drivers out there are sadistic animal killers. Original post on gizmodo.com Comments on digg.com
Deep beneath the plains of central Texas lies a catacomb of tunnels once meant to house the most expensive physics experiment ever devised. That experiment Original post on damninteresting.com Comments on reddit.com
On July 4 at 9 a.m. in Geneva (3 a.m. in New York), officials at the Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva, Switzerland are expected to present new results on, and possibly the discovery of, the Higgs boson, the final missing… Original post on dailygalaxy.com Comments on digg.com
When Greg Marra built @Trackgirl, he designed her as an experiment to see if an automated program could worm its way into online networks of real people Original post on wired.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
The Air Force’s unmanned, reusable space plane landed in the early morning of June 16 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., a successful conclusion to a record-setting test-flight mission that began March 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, on Original post on af.mil Comments on reddit.com
