Geneva: Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher have found further reasons for the apparent lack of antimatter in the universe. A team working with data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider says it has discovered a particle that decays unevenly into matter and antimatter.
The lab near Geneva said on Wednesday that the particle called 'B0s' is the fourth sub-atomic particle known to prefer matter over antimatter. Theory posits that the Big Bang produced equal amounts of each, and scientists have puzzled over why matter now dominates.
The discovery of the first matter-antimatter asymmetry earned two scientists at Brookhaven Laboratory in New York a Nobel Prize in 1980. Team spokesman Pierluigi Campana said the find was predicted by the standard model of physics but "some interesting discrepancies demand more detailed studies."
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08:46 PM, Apr 24, 2013
London: What's in a name? A lot - at least as far as the Higgs boson is concerned. Some leading scientists want the elusive God particle, called Higgs boson after its discoverer Peter Higgs, to be renamed in order to also credit the other researchers involved in its discovery. Scientists argue that Higgs, the genial but reclusive Edinburgh University physicist who predicted the existence of the 'God particle' in a...
06:55 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Washington: For the first time, scientists, including an Indian-origin physicist, have observed concrete hints of a particle behind the elusive dark matter that is believed to hold the cosmos together but has never been directly observed. The international Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment involving Texas A&M high-energy physicist Rupak Mahapatra reported a WIMP-like signal at the 3-sigma level, indicating a 99.8 per cent chance - or, in high-energy...
03:40 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Geneva: Scientists said on Wednesday they may be close to tracking down the mysterious "dark matter" which makes up more than a quarter of the universe but has never been seen. A final identification of what makes up the enigmatic material would solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics and open up new investigations into the possibility of multiple universes and other areas, said researchers. Members of an international...
06:10 AM, Apr 04, 2013
It helps solve one of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.7 billion years ago. ...
02:46 AM, Mar 15, 2013
At the Moriond Conference today, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN1's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) presented preliminary new results that further elucidate the particle discovered last year. ...
04:07 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Physicists say they are now confident they have discovered a long-sought subatomic particle known as a Higgs boson. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, says a look at all the data from 2012 shows that what they found last year was a version of what is popularly referred to as the 'God particle'. ...
04:02 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Physicists in Italy said on Wednesday they are achingly close to concluding that what they found last year was the Higgs boson, the elusive "God particle." They need to eliminate one last remote possibility that it's something else. The long theorized subatomic particle would explain why matter has mass and has been called a missing cornerstone of physics. ...
02:08 PM, Mar 07, 2013
A red-faced Wikipedia has removed an article from its site detailing the 17th century 'Bicholim Conflict' - a clash between Portugal and India's Maratha Empire - after it emerged that such a war never occurred, and the piece and references included were entirely fictional. ...
03:57 AM, Jan 07, 2013
Stella McCartney, who designed the uniforms worn by Britain's record-smashing Olympic team, and Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the so-called "God particle," are among the hundreds being honoured by Queen Elizabeth II this New Year. The list is particularly heavy with Britain's Olympic heroes, but it also includes "Star Wars" actor Ewan McGregor, eccentric English singer Kate Bush, Roald Dahl illustrator Quentin Blake and Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton,...
06:44 PM, Dec 30, 2012
The capture of the most wanted sub-atomic particle in physics - Higgs boson - has topped the chart of the year's ten biggest scientific breakthroughs. ...
01:39 PM, Dec 21, 2012
Sydney: Nano particles could prevent the immune system from attack of multiple sclerosis (MS), a debilitating nerve disease diagnosed between 20 and 40 years, according to a finding. MS affects any area of the brain, optic nerve, and spinal cord, damaging the myelin sheath, which protects the nerve cells, slowing down or halting exchange of nerve signals. The symptoms vary from mild limb numbness to paralysis and blindness. "This finding...
02:26 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: Now that Kanpur-based cartoonist Aseem Trivedi has been charged with sedition for his cartoons that 'mocked' the country's political class, Parliament and the national emblem, one has to bear in mind that the word "sedition" does not actually figure anywhere in the Indian Constitution. It is an offence against the state as enumerated in the Indian Penal Code which is an 1860 Act ratified by the British to...
12:07 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Kolkata: The Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) would take up with European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) chief Rolf-Dieter Heuer the case of sub-atomic particle boson, derived from an Indian scientist's name, being rendered in lower case. Heuer, director-general of the Geneva-based institute, would be on a two-day visit in Kolkata from September 3 to address an international science conference organised by the Centre for Natural Sciences and Philosophy...
08:23 AM, Sep 02, 2012
London: Scientists have discovered that a tiny particle within a protein allowed humans to become the most intelligent creatures on the planet. Researchers from the University of Colorado found that the protein domain issue known as DUF1220 holds the key to understanding why our brains are so much bigger and more complex than any other animal, the Daily Mail reported. DUF1220 is a protein domain of unknown function that shows...
04:33 AM, Aug 20, 2012
New Delhi: In a world where cricketers and film stars rake in the moolah, a college professor has trumped them all. Dr Ashoke Sen won the biggest jackpot in the world of science, the three million dollar Fundamental Physics Prize, for his work in theoretical physics. It's been four days and the sweets still haven't stopped. The proud scientist says, "The prize is for my work in String Theory. It...
09:38 AM, Aug 05, 2012
"Who knows for certain? Who shall here declare it? Whence was it born, whence came creation? The gods are later than this world's ...
10:20 AM, Jul 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court said on Monday it will examine whether a High Court, in exercising its powers under Article 226 of the constitution, can direct a state government to compensate for damages caused to religious places during riots or natural calamities. An apex court bench headed by Justice KS Radhakrishnan said that it will also look into Article 27 and whether under this the tax payers' money could...
01:38 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's only Nobel laureate helped develop the theoretical framework that led to the apparent discovery of the subatomic 'God particle' last week, yet his legacy has been largely scorned in his homeland because of his religious affiliation. It's a sign of the growing Islamic extremism in his country. Adbus Salam, who died in 1996, was once hailed as a national hero for his pioneering work in physics and work...
11:58 PM, Jul 08, 2012
Cyrus Broacha also talks about Boson particle, Akhilesh Yadav, Adarsh scam and much more. ...
10:45 AM, Jul 08, 2012
