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☆ UK Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs dies aged 94
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

London —Physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of an undetected particle in the universe changed science and was vindicated by a Nobel prize-winning discovery half a century later, has died aged 94, the University of Edinburgh said on Tuesday. Higgs described himself as “incompetent” in the physics laboratory at school and at first preferred maths and chemistry. What came to be known as the Higgs boson would solve the riddle of where several fundamental particles get their mass from: by interacting with the invisible “Higgs field” that pervades space. That interaction, known as the “Brout-Englert-Higgs” mechanism, won Higgs and Belgium’s Francois Englert the Nobel prize in physics in 2013. CERN’s massive Large Hadron Collider finally proved to be the sledgehammer needed to crack the nut, and in 2012 two experiments there independently found the Higgs boson.

Persons: Peter Higgs, Higgs, “ Peter Higgs, ”, Sir Peter Mathieson, Paul Dirac, Belgium’s Francois Englert, Robert Brout, “, Rolf Heuer, welling, theoreticians, Jody Williamson, ’ ”, Robert Evans, Tom Miles, Farouq Suleiman, Pravin Char, Mark Heinrich Organizations: London, University of Edinburgh, CERN, Reuters, “, Edinburgh University, Fermilab, Collider, chuckling Locations: Geneva, Chicago, American, Edinburgh

☆ Here's the science refresher you need before diving into Netflix's '3 Body Problem'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

AdvertisementThe three-body problem is unsolvable and chaoticSome of the show's action takes place in a virtual world that's orbited by three suns. "This is a centuries-old problem," Shane Ross, an aerospace and ocean engineering professor at Virginia Tech, told Business Insider. Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to EarthThe three-body system in the story is based on a real neighboring star system called Alpha Centauri. At about 4 light-years from Earth, it's the closest star system to our own and contains three stars: Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B, and Proxima Centauri, which has two planets orbiting around it. A view of the bright triple-star system Alpha Centauri.

Persons: —, Liu Cixin, Shane Ross, Isaac Newton, Ross, Georgios Kollidas, Alpha Centauri, Franck Marchis, Davide De Martin, they're, Marchis, Ye Wenjie, Enrico Fermi, Benedict Wong, Jerry Ehman, Sir William Hamilton, William of Ockham, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Maximilien Brice, John Finney, It's Organizations: Service, Netflix, Oxford University, Business, Virginia Tech, Alpha, Alpha Centauri, Proxima, SETI Institute, ESO, Columbia University, USA, Keystone, Getty, Ohio State University, Extraterrestrial Intelligence, SETI, American AstroPhysical, CERN Locations: Ohio, China, North America

☆ World Wide Web turns 35: Tim Berners-Lee gives predictions for future
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989. These are just some of the predictions for the future of the web from the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, on the 35th anniversary of its invention. Tim Berners-Lee Inventor, World Wide WebBerners-Lee got to continue working on his idea for this information sharing system, and by 1991, the World Wide Web was up and running. When Tim Berners-Lee started work on the World Wide Web 35 years ago, he had no idea it was about to become the ubiquitous force it is today. Tim Berners-Lee Inventor, World Wide Web

Persons: Tim Berners, Lee, Rita Franca, Berners, Fabrice Coffrini, of Berners, Robert Blumofe, Akamai, Blumofe, we'll, Sebastian Derungs, you'll, Chintan Patel, Patel Organizations: CERN, CNBC, AFP, Getty, Microsoft, Samsung, Galaxy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Google, Apple, Afp, Forte Ventures, Akamai, Glasswing Ventures, Cisco, Big Tech, Digital Markets Locations: Swiss, London, Berners, U.S

☆ Scientists are building tunnels under South Dakota for a $3 billion experiment that could solve some of the universe's grandest mysteries
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Estimated to cost at least $3 billion, the project DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment), is led by scientists at the US Department of Energy's Fermilab. AdvertisementCavern excavation at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota began in 2017. The beam will then travel underground for 800 miles to the detectors at the South Dakota Sanford Underground Research Facility. The Sanford Underground Research Facility is located at a former gold mine. Stephen Kenny, Sanford Underground Research FacilityIn 1987, astronomers witnessed a bright supernova exploding closer than any had in about 400 years.

Persons: —, Mary Bishai, Reidar Hahn, Bishai, Matthew Kapust, Stephen Kenny, Maximilien Brice, Albert Einstein's, Jim Shultz, It's Organizations: Service, US Department of Energy's Fermilab, Sanford Underground Research, South Dakota Researchers, Fermilab, South Dakota Sanford Underground Research, CERN, Japan Proton Accelerator Research, PARC, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Scientific Locations: Illinois, South Dakota, Chicago , Illinois, Minnesota, Fermilab, South

☆ Scientists are designing a supercollider so powerful it could push the boundaries of modern physics
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Ellyn Lapointe | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

CERN's new supercollider will be 8 times more powerful than the LHC, the largest and most powerful in the world. Particle physics research will need a major upgrade to begin exploring that mysterious 95%, made up of dark matter and dark energy. CERN, the European Council for Nuclear Research, is designing a new supercollider called the Future Circular Collider (FCC) to push the boundaries of modern physics research and perhaps discover the true nature of our mostly invisible universe. Together, these two colliders could usher in a new frontier of physics research. Breaking new groundCERN plans to build the 56-mile-long FCC tunnel beneath France and Switzerland, encircling the city of Geneva.

Persons: —, Michael Benedikt, Christophe Grojean, Benedikt, Grojean Organizations: Service, CERN, European Council for Nuclear Research, Collider, FCC, hh, CERN CERN, Environmental Locations: Geneva, France, Switzerland

☆ How antimatter engines could fly humans to other stars in just a few years
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Adam Barnes | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AdvertisementInterstellar travel is only something humanity has achieved in science fiction — like Star Trek's USS Enterprise, which used antimatter engines to travel across star systems. "Annihilation of antimatter and matter converts mass directly into energy," Weed, cofounder and CEO of Positron Dynamics, a company working to develop an antimatter propulsion system, told Business Insider. Space travel at record speedProxima's star system, shown here, could be reached in just five years with antimatter-powered technology. For example, let's take a trip to our nearest star system, Proxima, about 4.2 light years away. And since the '80s, there's been talk of thermal antimatter engines, which would use antimatter to heat liquid, gas, or plasma to provide thrust.

Persons: Elon Musk, Ryan Weed, Weed, Brice, Maximilien, Gerald Jackson, Forbes, It's, Jackson, he's, Eugen Sänger, there's, Paul M, Sutter, Steve Howe, Howe Organizations: Enterprise, Dynamics, Southern, NASA, CERN, Fermilab, Hbar Technologies, Space, Alpha Locations: Switzerland, Austrian

But nothing is certain yet, aside from the interest from mostly European and Western countries that bankroll CERN, which is home to the Large Hadron Collider. She said review committees had not turned up any “technical show-stoppers” for the project so far. Photos You Should See View All 45 ImagesHowever, the science that the future collider could generate remains largely unknown. “It’s true that at the moment we do not have a clear theoretical guidance on what we should look for,” Gianotti said. Monday’s briefing on the new collider included some proposed changes to the original plan announced in 2019.

Persons: ”, Fabiola Gianotti, ” Gianotti Organizations: GENEVA, —, European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, Collider, collider Locations: Swiss

NEW YORK (AP) — The first thought that comes to mind when you enter the Balloon Museum for the “Let’s Fly” exhibit is the massive scale of the art. But it's the adventure of a theme park attraction that can awaken the childlike wonder in all of us. “The idea of Balloon Museum is to create a space where artists meet the public and they meet by meaning everybody from the smallest to the oldest,” said Smigla-Bobinski. While the exhibition varies in content from each city the Balloon Museum takes up residency, there’s one constant, Balloon Street, where guests can be fully immersed and become part of the installations. Premiering in Rome in 2020, the Balloon Museum has toured through Europe with its curation focused on inflatable art installations.

Persons: That's, Chiara Caimmi, ” Caimmi, Cyril Lancelin, Sir Isaac Newton, Hyperstellar ”, Karina Smigla, ”, Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, Michael Shaw, Tadao Organizations: Museum, Balloon Museum, Tadao Cern Locations: New York City, Vegas, Polish, Lithuanian, Lithuania, Rome, Europe

☆ Right again, Einstein! Study shows how antimatter responds to gravity
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Antimatter is the enigmatic twin of ordinary matter, possessing the same mass but with an opposite electrical charge. Under current theory, the Big Bang explosion that initiated the universe should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter. However, antimatter can be synthesized under controlled conditions, as in the ALPHA experiment, which used antihydrogen created at CERN. "The nearly complete absence of naturally occurring antimatter is one of the great questions facing physics," Wurtele said. "No matter how pretty the theory, physics is an experimental science," Fajans said.

Persons: Jonathan Wurtele, Joel Fajans, Wurtele, Einstein, William Bertsche, Bertsche, Fajans, Will Dunham, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: European Center for Nuclear Research, CERN, Enterprise, University of California, ALPHA, UC Berkeley, University of Manchester, Thomson Locations: Geneva, Switzerland, Berkeley, England, Washington

☆ The ‘Mandela Effect’: How a psychological phenomenon took over the internet
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

But you might also be experiencing the so-called Mandela Effect. Ken Drinkwater, a fellow researcher at Manchester Metropolitan, added that the effect might be connected to a condition called false memory syndrome. Jon Elswick/AP; Scott Olson/Getty ImagesSome common examples of the Mandela Effect have perhaps logical explanations, such as Mr. “Advocates of the Mandela Effect think it’s a genuine effect. These people had this false memory right after learning about the characters!

Persons: Ash, Fiona Broome, Nelson Mandela, Mandela, Broome, “ Luke, ”, Wilma Bainbridge, hadn’t, Deepasri Prasad, Bainbridge, Prasad, Stan, Jan Berenstain, ” Bainbridge, Neil Dagnall, Dagnall, “, ” Dagnall, Roediger, McDermott, Ken Drinkwater, they’ve, Drinkwater, they’d, you’ve, Jon Elswick, Scott Olson, David Adkins, Sinbad, Dennis Van Tine, Shaquille O’Neal, Clara Nellist, Lionel Flusin, hasn’t, ” Drinkwater, University of Chicago’s Bainbridge Organizations: CNN, “, Bears, University of Chicago’s, Science, UChicago, Dartmouth College, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester Metropolitan, Monopoly, Fox Television Network, European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, Collider Locations: South Africa, “, Hanover , New Hampshire, United Kingdom, New York City, Switzerland —, Geneva

☆ Cillian Murphy didn't just want to act like Oppenheimer. He asked science advisors to help him think like him, too.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Maiya Focht | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Cillian Murphy plays the "father of the atomic bomb", J. Robert Oppenheimer, in the new film. Science advisors said Murphy asked questions about the theories to accurately portray his character. For his part, Thorne met Murphy virtually and talked with him about scientific theory broadly, and Oppenheimer the man, whom Thorne studied under at Princeton, personally. Saltzberg met Murphy while working with production designers to draft the equations written on the chalkboards throughout the movie. For his role as a physicist in the 2007 movie "Sunshine", Murphy met with scientists at CERN to prepare for the role.

Persons: Cillian Murphy, Robert Oppenheimer, Murphy, Oppenheimer, Kip Thorne, David Saltzberg, Thorne, Saltzberg, Murphy didn't, he's Organizations: Service, UCLA, Princeton, CERN, Guardian, Demand Entertainment Locations: Wall, Silicon, Hollywood

☆ How scientists create the most explosive substance in the universe
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Adam Barnes | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Penning traps contain ultra-thin foils, about 1.5 micrometers thick, that further slow down and capture antiprotons sent from the ELENA ring. Before ELENA was installed in 2018 to help slow down antiprotons even more, CERN caught less than 1% of antiprotons it produced. Now, it captures up to 70%. Thin foil strips, shown in blue here, are placed at the end of a Penning trap to help slow and trap antimatter particles. CERNSources: CERN, Sameed Muhammed

☆ A discontinued Rolex just sold at auction for a record-breaking $2.5 million — the winning buyer reportedly was the watchmaker
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A rare Rolex Milgauss "mad scientist" watch sold at auction for $2.5 million. The winning buyer purchased the timepiece on behalf of Rolex itself, sources told Bloomberg. Phillips in Association with Bacs & RussoThe winning buyer was acting on behalf of Rolex itself, sources told Bloomberg. Earlier this year, the Swiss brand quietly discontinued production of the Milgauss, known to many as Rolex's "mad scientist" watch for its magnetic interference-resistant design. The world record auction price for any wrist watch remains $17.8 million in 2017 for Paul Newman's very own Daytona Reference 6239.

☆ Inside the world's only high-energy collision antimatter factory where scientists create the most explosive substance in the universe to understand why we exist
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Adam Barnes | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

☆ The World Wide Web Turns 30: A History of the Internet Technology
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Matthew Riva | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Mosaic browserThe most popular early browser was released eight days before CERN unleashed the web's source code. The move enabled people for the first time to see text and photos side-by-side, and encouraged growth of the fledgling web. One of Mosaic’s developers was Marc Andreessen, who went on to co-found Netscape and Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. National Center for Supercomputing Applications/University of Illinois Board of Trustees

☆ Fact Check-Circulating photo is from a gaming expo, does not show the lobby at CERN
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A tweet said, in part, “The lobby at CERN; Nothing at all demonic to see here…” (here). The posts show what appears to be a 3D art display of demonic figures or creatures climbing out of the floor, with observers in the background. An online search for the photo leads to a blog post (here), (here) by 3D artist Kurt Wenner (kurtwenner.com/biography/). He was commissioned by Microsoft Studios to promote the “Gears of War” video game series, the first installment of which was released in November 2006. The photo shows a 3D art illustration by artist Kurt Wenner at a gaming expo in 2006 and does not show the CERN lobby.

☆ Rolex is discontinuing its $9,300 'mad scientist' Milgauss watch — and now some resellers are listing it for over $13,000
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rolex has quietly discontinued one of its professional watches, the magnetic field-resistant Milgauss. Bob's Watches CEO Paul Altieri told Insider he's holding off selling until prices find a new steady state. The original version was worn by the scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Rolex says. It even ranks near last place among the 16 Rolex models tracked on the site. Of course, Rolex could resurrect the Milgauss in a few years, but until it does, mad scientists will have to content themselves with a pre-owned model.

☆ Tim Berners-Lee wants us to reclaim the internet from tech giants
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Daniel Renjifo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

London CNN —The internet has come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989. Now, in an era of growing concern over privacy, he believes it’s time for us to reclaim our personal data. Through their startup Inrupt, Berners-Lee and CEO John Bruce have created the “Solid Pod” — or Personal Online Data Store. The latter plans to use Pods to let its citizens choose how to share their personal data. A former physicist, Tim Berners-Lee, pictured in 1994, invented the world wide web at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN.

☆ Trăim iluzia că suntem într-o țară democratică, ex-vicepremier
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-30 | by ( ) www.ipn.md time to read: +3 min

Într-o conferință de presă la IPN, Constantin Oboroc, a declarat că, dacă acest angajament va fi pus în aplicare, va schimba fundamental regulile de joc în politica din țară. „Astăzi trăim într-o iluzie că suntem într-o țară democratică. Dacă exercițiul de vot secret liber exprimat în partidele politice lipsește, nu putem vorbi despre o democrație reală în partidele politice”, susține ex-vicepremierul. Ați avut șansa să faceți o schimbare fundamentală în Constituția republicii, ca să nu existe derapajele în țară”, a spus Constantin Oboroc. Aveai să ajungi exact la temelia unei democrații veritabile, aveai să ajungi la exercițiul de vot secret în partidele politice.

Persons: Oboroc, Vladimir Voronin, Constantin Oboroc, Voronin, Constantin Oboroc ., El Organizations: Partidului Comuniștilor, PCRM, cern, Socialiștilor Locations: n.r, Prut, Comuniștilor

☆ Professor Grigore Tinică about Moldovan politicians: A gang thinking about their pockets
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-05 | by ( ) news.yam.md time to read: 1 min

14:30The patients taken by an ambulance to the COVID-19 Triage Center at Moldexpo in Chisinau are not always hospitalized. If they are confirmed with the virus, but have a mild form of the disease and do not form part of the high-risk groups, they are prescribed treatment at home. Persons in charge of the Center related how these persons get home.The Center’s vice director Denis Cern

Persons: home.The, Denis Cern Locations: Moldexpo, Chisinau

☆ Albot trounced by Rublev
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-05 | by ( ) news.yam.md time to read: 1 min

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☆ How patients with COVID-19 who are prescribed treatment at home get home
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-05 | by ( ) news.yam.md time to read: 1 min

How patients with COVID-19 who are prescribed treatment at home get homeThe patients taken by an ambulance to the COVID-19 Triage Center at Moldexpo in Chisinau are not always hospitalized. If they are confirmed with the virus, but have a mild form of the disease and do not form part of the high-risk groups, they are prescribed treatment at home. Persons in charge of the Center related how these persons get home.The Center’s vice director Denis CernRead more• • •More news from IPN

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