Published: Feb 23, 2012
Researchers have found a flaw in the technical setup of an experiment that startled the science world last year by appearing to show particles traveling faster than light. The problem may have affected measurements that clocked subatomic neutrino particles breaking what Einstein considered the ultimate speed barrier. Two separate issues were
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Published: Jan 02, 2012
LONDON -- If only they had retreated gracefully. When the visual identity of the London 2012 Olympic Games was introduced in 2007, it was accused of looking: a) ugly, b) illegible, c) like a swastika and d) like Lisa Simpson performing an obscene act. And several people with epilepsy reported suffering seizures after seeing the animated version on
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Published: Dec 14, 2011
Physicists will have to keep holding their breath a while longer. Two teams of scientists sifting debris from high-energy proton collisions in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research outside Geneva, said Tuesday that they had recorded tantalizing hints -- but only hints -- of a long-sought subatomic
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Published: Dec 12, 2011
High noon is approaching for the biggest manhunt in the history of physics. At 8 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday morning, scientists from CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, are scheduled to give a progress report on the search for the Higgs boson -- infamously known as the ''God particle'' -- whose discovery would vindicate the modern
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Published: Nov 19, 2011
Few scientists are betting against Einstein yet, but the phantom neutrinos of Opera are still eluding explanation. Two months after scientists reported that they had clocked subatomic particles known as neutrinos going faster than the speed of light, to the astonishment and vocal disbelief of most of the world's physicists, the same group of
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Published: Nov 01, 2011
To the Editor: Re ''Particles Faster Than the Speed of Light? Not So Fast, Some Say'' (Oct. 25): It should be emphasized that no actual light signals were sent for comparison between CERN in Geneva and Gran Sasso in Italy. This is because while neutrinos can go through solid rock, obviously light signals cannot. Thus the CERN scientists do not know
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Published: Oct 25, 2011
''Does E still equal MC squared?'' So asks the Irish band the Corrigan Brothers in a new song, ''Einstein and the Neutrinos,'' that is the latest rollicking riff on news that shocked the scientific world last month. A group of physicists from Italy claimed they had observed the subatomic particles called neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of
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Published: Oct 06, 2011
Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He was 56. The death was announced by Apple, the company Mr. Jobs and his high school friend Stephen
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Published: Oct 06, 2011
Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He was 56. The death was announced by Apple, the company Mr. Jobs and his high school friend Stephen
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Published: Oct 06, 2011
Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He was 56. The death was announced by Apple, the company Mr. Jobs and his high school friend Stephen
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