Both LHC and KEK got some weird results in two different experiments that suggest possibility of new particles outside standard model. They also don't fit into the Supersymetry theory. Right now the best guesses are some new type of Higgs boson or leptoquark.

Queen Elizabeth II has become the longest reigning British monarch in history today (she ( Read more... )

LHC was supposed to be back in operation after two years of upgrades but it short-circuited during booting so we'll still have to wait for that dark matter explanation a little longer. They need to opposite of vacuum it first by flushing it out with high-pressure helium gas.

For the first time since MIR there will be someone living in space for a ( Read more... )

In celebration of Yuri's Night tomorrow this is a science post.

There is going to be a series of Lunar eclipses - roughly every 6 months - and the first one will happen this Monday night. By fluke, Monday is also the date of Mars’s closest approach to Earth, when our neighboring planet should appear larger and brighter than usual. Both Americas ( Read more... )

So I concentrated on body augmentation but other things happened in science recently, too.

We learned last years that dolphins introduce themselves by name (their signature whistle) but it turns out they also call friends and family members by their names (copy their signature whistles) when they look for them. That's makes them the only other ( Read more... )

Today, finally after two months of waiting we got our missing bench tables and finally have enough workspace not to sit on one another. But the guys bringing the tables came at 8am or rather just before it. We didn't expect it - we thought more like around 10 - so there was no one there. I got the call (because my phone is there as a contact in ( Read more... )

Kelly Thompson wrote a book about two superheroines (and already funded its publication) and decided to do 30 Days Of Superheroines to celebrate that. She posts collections of art for chosen superheroine everyday and it's so pretty. I also learned that there exists a version of Psylocke costume that doesn't suck. Why, oh why can't she wear this in ( Read more... )

Here, where I an it's a holiday today - the Independence Day - however, in this year, today is a different day for the whole world. Today is the Higgs boson day. CERN announced it officially today - the Higgs boson has been discovered (or it is almost completely sure that they found a particle and that particles fits the theoretically predicted ( Read more... )

Or at least very close to it as both ATLAS and CMS detectors at LHC seem to have data hinting the Higgs boson has been detected. If the current experiments hinting at it can be repeated with higher significance then this could be it. Many physicist are already convinced as the two independent experiments on two LHC detectors not only discovered it ( Read more... )

I was watching Nova 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' tonight and it reminded me I haven't done science post in a while. So here it is.

The biggest news of the day (at least in science) is the discovery of the fraud Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel has been committing for years. He was one of the most famous social psychologist in the field. He published ( Read more... )

You've probably heard about it by now but the CERN OPERA experiment with neutrinos registered some that apparently seem to travel faster then light.

The experiment sends neutrinos generated by the LHC in Switzerland to a detector at Gran Sasso in Italy. Neutrinos have almost no mass so they travel practically at the speed of light and they almost ( Read more... )