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2014, International Year of Crystallography

Crystallography, according to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy is the "description of the forms that bodies take when crystallizing". However, it is much more than that. It is a fundamental science in chemistry, physics, biology, mineralogy, and so on. In fact, due to its importance, UNESCO has just named 2014 as the International Year of Crystallography.

What is a parabolic flight?

There are only two ways to feel the sensation of floating in space without feeling the pull of gravity: going into outer space or falling into a special plane.

Google Street View comes to CERN

At CERN, the prestigious laboratory on the outskirts of Geneva dedicated to researching particle physics, some of the world's best physicists and engineers are working to figure out what the universe is made of or what its origins were like. open its doors to Street View so that any Internet user, from any corner of the world, can visit its laboratories, control centers and underground tunnels that house their experiments. "The Street View images will also allow scientists who collaborate in CERN projects to see the equipment that is being used, even if they are working on the other side of the world," they say from the official Google blog. ?

Ununpentium is the latest chemical element discovered

An international group of scientists has confirmed the existence of a new superheavy chemical element that has the atomic number 115, previously suggested by Russian researchers. If officially recognized, ununpentium would become part of the periodic table.

What is Schrödinger's cat?

It is a famous imaginary experiment conceived by the Austrian physicist Edwin Schrödinger according to which a cat is locked in a box that also contains a radioactive atom

The God particle

The Higgs boson

The parents of the Higgs boson and CERN win the Prince of Asturias Award for Research

Physicists Peter Higgs (United Kingdom) and François Englert (Belgium), together with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), have been awarded today the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research.

Gravity also affects antimatter

Scientists from the CERN ALPHA collaboration have presented the first direct evidence of how antimatter atoms interact with gravity. The study, published by Nature Communications, has focused on measuring the gravitational mass of antihydrogen, the simplest neutral antimatter atom.

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