A word with CERN’s next Director-General. Mark Thomson is professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge and was executive chair of the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) until his confirmation as CERN’s next Director-General by the CERN Council in December.

Sep 24, 2024 · Quantum entanglement links subatomic particles in a way that appears to defy logic. When scientists measure one of a pair of entangled particles, the other seems to immediately know the result.

Dec 3, 2024 · Jeff Wiener manages a program that annually brings 1,000 teachers to CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, training them to teach particle physics in their classrooms back home.

Aug 15, 2023 · With enough time and magnifying power, a telescope can gather all the light it needs to create a pretty complete portrait of a single, distant galaxy.

Jan 7, 2025 · The report recommended achieving this improved balance through the formation of a new program called ASTAE, for Advancing Science and Technology through Agile Experiments, which would comprise a new portfolio of small projects at the US Department of Energy.

An alternative to the Higgs. The most popular theory proposes a completely new mass mechanism at play that is not within the Standard Model, one which introduces an entirely new particle.

Section 2. Almost half of this equation is dedicated to explaining interactions between bosons, particularly W and Z bosons. Bosons are force-carrying particles, and there are four species of bosons that interact with other particles using three fundamental forces.

The particles we’re made of. About 99 percent of your body is made up of atoms of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. You also contain much smaller amounts of the other elements that are essential for life.

From wave, to particle, to boson. People have investigated the nature of light since ancient times, with early insights coming from philosophers and scholars in Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and Greece.

Antimatter is the stuff of science fiction. In the book and film Angels and Demons, Professor Langdon tries to save Vatican City from an antimatter bomb.Star Trek’s starship Enterprise uses matter-antimatter annihilation propulsion for faster-than-light travel.. But antimatter is also the stuff of reality. Antimatter particles are almost identical to their matter counterparts except that ...