In honor of today's 20th anniversary of the World Wide Web, its creators at the research laboratory CERN (the Higgs Boson guys) have gone all nostalgic — and a bit anti-establishment — in recreating the first publicly available free web page.
They're yet another step closer to proving that dark matter — the unseen stuff that they believe makes up a quarter of the universe — actually exists. And, yes, you can thank Congress for paying to strap a magic bus to the side of a Space Shuttle and help us understand what we're doing here.
After analyzing "two and a half times more data" than they have since last summer, scientists at the CERN research labs in Switzerland say that they are pretty sure that they found what they think they found.
Discovered: Large Hadron Collider produces the hottest matter ever; female ADHD sufferers are more prone to self-harm; a snake affliction identified; hide beetles get turned on by death.
The Atlas and CMS teams presented their data separately in Melbourne on Wednesday, but both concluded they've discovered a new particle consistent with what they think to be a Higgs boson at a sensitivity level of sigma 5, the "gold standard" for discoveries.
What's one thing CERN scientists can do to pique interest in their maybe-spoiled, already-hotly anticipated Higgs boson announcement tomorrow? Leak a video possibly confirming discovery, then promptly take it away.
The two leaders of the research team at CERN that published a study that showed neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light have resigned a month after an experiment contradicted their results, but they're quick to note that their departure and the research aren't related.
With this week's news that the supposedly Einstein-disproving breakthrough may have resulted from experimental error, is it time to join forces with those critics who thought the CERN scientists touted their research too soon?
When some scientists at CERN thought they'd shown neutrino particles traveling faster than the speed of light last year, they announced they'd maybe wobbled the laws of physics. On Wednesday, they suggested an alternate theory: The results were due to a loose wire.
Scientists at CERN just finished their press conference explaining their discovery in relation to the so-called god particle, and while they say they've found evidence of the mysterious Higgs Boson, they've stopped short of announcing it definitely exists.
New tests at the European science facility CERN yet again confirm the results of their prior experiment which showed faster-than-light particles, reports the BBC and The Washington Post.
An experiment which appears to disprove Einstein has physicists wringing their hands
Subatomic particles have been clocked traveling faster than light
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There's a link, we swear
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