The Royal Society, the oldest active scientific community in the world and to which figures such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein belonged, has been awarded the 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities, as announced today in Oviedo on Jury.
Around midnight on April 22, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has set a new world record for beam intensity by colliding beams with a luminosity never before achieved (4.67 × 10 raised to 32 cm-2 s -1). This surpasses the previous record of 4,024 × 10 raised to 32 cm-2 s-1 achieved by the Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab (USA) in 2010, and represents an important milestone in the start-up of the LHC.
Haven't you participated in the Big Bang Game 2.0 yet? At the Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia (mNACTEC) they have decided to give players 30 more days of competition to be eligible for one of the prizes offered by the innovative project.
Scientists from the Fermi Laboratory have presented the results of an analysis of data obtained in the CDF detector of the Tevatron accelerator that, if validated, would reveal the existence of a "new physics" different from that of the Standard Model, the theory that describes the fundamental and their interactions. According to the interpretations, it could be a Higgs boson different from the one proposed by the theory, or another particle carrying a new force.
ESA astronomers have detected for the first time the presence of magnetic fields very close to a black hole that some particles take advantage of to escape from the dark gravitational well. The finding has been possible thanks to the observations of the Integral satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA).
The situation caused by the earthquake and tsunami at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan has reignited the debate on the risks of nuclear energy. José María Gómez Gómez and José Manuel Udías Moinelo, physicists at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), have made an analysis of what has happened so far.
If Tom Weiler and Chui Ho Man's latest theory is correct, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could be the first time machine. According to this proposal, the machine will not allow a human to travel to the past, but it will send messages to the past or future.
With a similar appearance to a tambourine without rattles, the drum developed by researchers at the Colorado National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, in the USA) is a round aluminum membrane 100 nanometers thick and 15 micrometers wide that it acts both as the vibrating skin of the drum and as the part of an electric condenser.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
