Higgs e fisici romani a TGR Lazio
Filed under: Rassegna Stampa Tagged: CERN, Higgs, INFN, LHC, Roma, Sapienza, spending review Continue reading
Triumph turns to tears as Italian physicists are given bleak budget news
Published on behalf of Nicola Nosengo “We had just finished celebrating, and we got our reward”. Voice heavy with irony, Fernando Ferroni, the president of Italy’s National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), had just learned on 6 July that of all the Italian research institutes, his will bear the greatest burden of government cuts. The [...]
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Google Science Fair winner visits CERN during Higgs week
Google Science Fair winner Shree Bose could not have picked a better time to visit CERN. She was there from June 27 to July 4, the day scientists there announced the discovery of a Higgs-like boson. Continue reading
CERN: All looks coherent at #ICHEP2012 with the new (#Higgs?) boson but #SUSY (supersymmetry) still stands a good chance http://t.co/7wwTuO1P
CERN: All looks coherent at #ICHEP2012 with the new (#Higgs?) boson but #SUSY (supersymmetry) still stands a good chance http://t.co/7wwTuO1P Continue reading
Bosone di Higgs: dopo le lodi la scure sull’istituto di fisica
Fonte: l’Unità Di Mariagrazia Gerina 8 luglio 2012 Ci si poteva aspettare tutto, tranne che per risparmiare il governo dei professori tagliasse via «la particella di dio». E invece tra le vittime della spending review, c’è finito anche, indirettamente, il «bosone di Higgs». Troppo caro per la fisica italiana. Al mattino osannata dal presidente della [...]
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The statistics of scientific discovery
In this video, Fermilab physicist explains how figuring out whether a discovery is real or just a matter of luck is similar to judging the fairness of a pair of dice. It all comes down to statistics. Continue reading
Con la nostra ricerca cresce tutta l`economia
Fonte: La Stampa BARBARA GALLAVOTTI TORINO - Che l`annuncio della scoperta del bosone di Higgs potesse essere il canto del cigno della fisica italiana, non l`avevamo messo in conto. Tutto avrebbe fatto pensare il contrario: l`enorme valore del contributo dell`Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Infn) al Cern, provato dalla presenza di moltissimi italiani ai vertici del [...]
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CERN: #Cloud computing @HelixNebulaSC now helping @CERN physics, @emblebi biology & natural disaster risk management @ESA http://t.co/BIfQoiyX
CERN: #Cloud computing @HelixNebulaSC now helping @CERN physics, @emblebi biology & natural disaster risk management @ESA http://t.co/BIfQoiyX Continue reading