A blog that aims to bring the cool study of antimatter (and other awesome science news) down to an understandable level.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
New moon formation theory
Summary: Scientists have proposed new theories of the Moon's formation. Some think that a larger object than previously thought struck the young Earth, probably faster than earlier models predicted. However, only more data will show which theory is correct.
BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19011013
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Dark Matter going Underground
Summary: A Dark Matter detecting experiment will be moving underground from it's current location at Fermilab in Chicago.
SymmetryMag: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/?p=16324
SymmetryMag: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/?p=16324
Monday, July 23, 2012
The passing of a hero
Sally Ride, the first American woman in space and one of my heroes, has passed away earlier today from pancreatic cancer. She was 61.
BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18963939
NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/people/features/ride.html
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Dwarf helps form spiral galaxy
Summary: Astronomers have found a well formed spiral galaxy just 3 billion years
after the big bang. It is extremely rare for a well formed spiral to
appear this early due to how chaotic the universe still was at this
point. It was helped along by a small dwarf galaxy orbiting it; this
added an extra gravitational pull to form the spiral.
BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18891760
BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18891760
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Hubble discovers new Pluto moon
Summary: The Hubble space telescope has discovered a fifth moon around the dwarf planet
Pluto.
BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18803212
BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18803212
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
New particle found, possible Higgs
Summary: Scientists at CERN have announced the discovery of what seems to be a new particle. They do not know if it is the Higgs Boson, though it is in the right area, and they don't have a high enough degree of certainty to call it a formal discovery. However it is close enough to yield celebration all over the physics community.
BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18702455
Symmetry Mag: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2012/07/04/search-for-higgs-boson-at-large-hadron-collider-reveals-new-particle/
Video of press conference: cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1459604
Follow CERN on twitter for all the latest updates.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Fermilab reveals stronger hints about Higgs
Summary: More data from the Tevatron at Fermilab is narrowing the search for the Higgs Boson particle. Their data is pointing towards the particle being in the same "search region" of the LHC: between 115 and 135 GeV.
BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18677808
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