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Captive particles and Dr. Who show physicists are human too

April 17, 2013 13:00
By Robert Evans GENEVA (Reuters) - Physicists are deadly serious people, right? Clad in long white coats, they spend their days smashing particles together in the hunt for exotic creatures like quarks and squarks, leptons and sleptons -- and the Higgs Boson. At night their dreams are all about finding them.

Scientists find hint of dark matter from cosmos

April 6, 2013 11:47
A $2 billion cosmic ray detector on the International Space Station has found the footprint of something that could be dark matter, the mysterious substance that is believed to hold the cosmos together but has never been directly observed, scientists say. But the first results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, known by its acronym AMS, are almost as enigmatic as dark matter itself.

First clues in search for universe's dark matter

April 3, 2013 15:45
A massive instrument circling the globe aboard the International Space Station has provided a first glimpse of what may be mysterious dark matter in the universe, experts said Wednesday. The elusive nature of dark matter -- which surrounds the galaxy in a near-spherical halo and is believed to make up around a quarter of the universe -- is considered one of the most important riddles in physics. Dark matter has only been observed indirectly through its interaction with visible matter, and is not explained by the standard model of physics.

First results announced in search for universe's dark matter

April 3, 2013 11:45
A massive science instrument that is spinning the globe aboard the International Space Station has provided its first glimpse of what may be mysterious dark matter in the universe, experts said Wednesday. The first results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, the most sensitive particle physics spectrometer ever sent to space, seem to indicate "evidence of a new physics phenomena," said a press statement from the international research team.

New data 'strongly indicates' particle is Higgs boson

March 14, 2013 08:46
New data unveiled on Thursday strengthens the belief that a subatomic particle discovered last year is the elusive Higgs boson, European physicists said. Analysis of two characteristics, teased from experiments at the world's biggest particle smasher, aligns with theories that the discovery is a Higgs, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said.

Reuters Science News Summary

March 9, 2013 17:18
Following is a summary of current science news briefs. Hopes fade of Higgs particle opening door to new realms soon

Reuters Science News Summary

March 9, 2013 09:30
Following is a summary of current science news briefs. Hopes fade of Higgs particle opening door to new realms soon

Reuters Science News Summary

March 9, 2013 01:15
Following is a summary of current science news briefs. Hopes fade of Higgs particle opening door to new realms soon

Reuters Science News Summary

March 8, 2013 17:16
Following is a summary of current science news briefs. Hopes fade of Higgs particle opening door to new realms soon

Hopes fade of Higgs particle opening door to new realms soon

March 8, 2013 13:45
* Reports to conference give no hint of "New Physics" * Event horizon seems pushed back to beyond 2015 * New particle seen as "garden variety" By Robert Evans GENEVA, March 8 (Reuters) - Scientists' hopes that last summer's triumphant trapping of the particle that shaped the post-Big Bang universe would quickly open the way into exotic new realms of physics like string theory and new dimensions have faded this past week.
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