Young scientists presented their research in three entertaining minutes at this year’s Swiss semifinal round of Famelab 2013, hosted by CERN. “And now presenting our next contestant on Swiss Idol, Piotr Traczyk,” said University of Michigan... Continue reading →

Former particle physicist John Mansour still creates analytic solutions—these days, for retail clients. John Mansour’s professional life has zigged and zagged like a bright green line on an oscilloscope, always centered on a love of physics. ... Continue reading →

In physics, spinors are used to plot the spin properties of elementary particles. In Stanford's recreational softball league, it's a whole different story. Sporting both physics and physique, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory employees fie... Continue reading →

In analyses of a fundamental characteristic of the newly discovered Higgs-like particle—the ways in which it decays—scientists see even more Higgs-like behavior. Scientists at the Rencontres de Moriond physics conference have released a s... Continue reading →

The LHCb experiment at CERN reports precise new measurements—but leaves open the question of why our matter-dominated universe exists. Today, scientists from CERN’s LHCb experiment announced new results in the study of the evolution of our ma... Continue reading →

In a display of timing worthy of a blockbuster movie, a multinational team of accelerator physicists focused a beam of electrons down to the tiny size needed for a future linear collider the same week that the linear collider board formed. In late 20... Continue reading →

Objects as large as a planet or as small as a photon can have the property of spin. Spin is also the reason we can watch movies in 3D. Spin is the amount of rotation an object has, taking into account its mass and shape. This is also known as an obje... Continue reading →

Scientists have started to exclude some of the more exotic scenarios for the Higgs-like boson. The Higgs-like boson discovered in 2012 is looking more Higgs-like, scientists on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider said in presentations at the Ren... Continue reading →