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CERN: Aged between 13 and 18 and want to spend time in LHC control rooms? Sign up for researchers’ night on 28 September: http://t.co/l2xUYsAp

CERN: Aged between 13 and 18 and want to spend time in LHC control rooms? Sign up for researchers' night on 28 September: http://t.co/l2xUYsAp Continue reading

CERN: Today marks 100 years since Victor Hess made last of series of balloon flights leading to the discovery of cosmic rays http://t.co/D50lY3ZU

CERN: Today marks 100 years since Victor Hess made last of series of balloon flights leading to the discovery of cosmic rays http://t.co/D50lY3ZU Continue reading

CERN: RT @isgtw: A year’s amount of #LHC data would be 600 million years of #music. #Higgs boson would appear as a few minutes of music. http: …

CERN: RT @isgtw: A year's amount of #LHC data would be 600 million years of #music. #Higgs boson would appear as a few minutes of music. http: ... Continue reading

Physicists show strengthened signals of Higgs-like particle in publications

The CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider released papers Tuesday confirming their earlier simultaneous, independent discovery of a particle that resembles the Standard Model Higgs boson. Continue reading

Ferroni (Infn): «Minimizzati tagli a ricerca. La disgrazia rimane ma c’è un’altra strada»

«Serve autonomia e una vision politica che la colleghi all’industria» [ 1 agosto 2012 ] Luca Aterini I tagli a istruzione e ricerca sembrano un must tutto italiano quando arriva l’ennesimo giro di vite ai conti pubblici. Si parla di rilanciare la crescita, ma si inibiscono le potenzialità del capitale umano. Secondo dati Ocse, nel [...] Continue reading

CERN: LHC 2012 proton run extended by seven weeks http://t.co/9f78Jkfj

CERN: LHC 2012 proton run extended by seven weeks http://t.co/9f78Jkfj Continue reading

Higgs boson results from LHC ‘get even stronger’

The announcement on 4 July was greeted with enthusiasm around the world The Higgs boson-like particle whose discovery was announced on 4 July looks significantly more certain to exist. The particle has been the subject of a decades-long hunt as the last missing piece of physics’ Standard Model, explaining why matter has mass. Now Higgs-hunting [...] Continue reading

Il bosone alla prova di Dio

di Wlodek Goldkorn e Gigi Riva La scoperta riapre l’eterna questione sull’esistenza di un’entità superiore. Perché non c’è luogo dove collocarla nell’universo. Ma i credenti rispondono: chi ha creato quel piccolo mattone? (31 luglio 2012) La scoperta del bosone di Higgs è un’altra vittoria postuma di Galileo: si può fermare il Sole ma non la [...] Continue reading