Discovered: A famous diet can improve heart health by as much as 30 percent; maybe organic tomatoes are better for you after all; signs of an ancient underwater continent; Spider-Man's hypothetical web could stop a hypothetical train, according to physics.
The Higgs boson discovery didn't win the Nobel Prize in Physics this year despite being the sexiest and perhaps the most significant physics discovery in the last 50 years. You might even be asking yourself why and pondering the meaning of life now that the Nobel jury didn't recognize the God Particle. Don't fret, we've got some answers.
The Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the United States, who both made unique advances in quantum optics, allowing scientists the first chance observe quantum particles in the physical world.
Now that Higgs boson discovery afterglow has faded, what are physics fans going to talk about? Well, the Nobel Prize for starters.
We're not even going to try and explain the significance of the Higgs boson discovery observation, but we did an find a lot of non-sciencey things that the Higgs boson taught us, which is a lot easier than explaining gammas, sigmas, and hadrons.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
While American physicists today offer more tantalizing evidence that the Higgs boson exists, the term journalists once loved to call it, the "God particle," is going out of fashion.
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.
Rumors are flying about a possible breakthrough in the search for the Higgs boson, an elusive particle believed to explain how matter has mass.
Just when you thought technology couldn't get any cooler, Nissan goes and creates a suitcase-sized plastic mat that charges the Leaf through thin air.
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.
Subatomic particles have been clocked traveling faster than light
The biggest present in physics history could be neatly packed under scientists' Christmas trees.
Quantum computing and quadrillions of calculations per second are the new reality
The physics breakthrough may be the most futuristic discovery this year
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has rendered the cosmos in 3-D
There's a link, we swear
A purported leaked memo from the Large Hadron Collider team is a hot rumor
Now you know!
Not quite as thrilling as the moon landing, but close
The man who levitated a frog is now producing a super-material using Scotch tape
Say hello to our Earth-like cousin, the poetically-named Gliese 581g
One of the world's great physicists dips into religion
His coauthor, Leonard Mlodinow, responds to angry religious leaders and others
To study "solar radiation" and satisfy our curiosity, of course
Space exploration gets controversial
"I do believe in time travel. Time travel to the future."
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