A hint of Higgs: An update from the LHC

The physics world was abuzz with some tantalizing news a couple of weeks ago. At a meeting of the European Physical Society in Grenoble, France, physicists -- including some from Caltech -- announced that the latest data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) might hint at the existence of the ever-elusive Higgs boson.

CERN experiment weighs antimatter with unprecedented accuracy

The Japanese-European ASACUSA experiment at CERN has reported a new measurement of the antiproton

Large Hadron Collider achieves 2011 data milestone

On June 17 at around 10:50 CEST, the amount of data accumulated by LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS clicked over from 0.999 to 1 inverse femtobarn, signaling an important milestone in the experiments

CERN scientists confine antihydrogen atoms for 1000 seconds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Seventeen minutes may not seem like much, but to physicists working on the Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA) project at the CERN physics complex near Geneva, 1000 seconds is nearly four orders of magnitude better than has ever been achieved before in capturing and holding onto antimatter atoms. In a paper published in arXiv, a team of researchers studying the properties of antimatter, describe a process whereby they were able to confine antihydrogen atoms for just that long, paving the way for new experiments that could demonstrate properties of antimatter that until now, have been largely speculation.

Large Hadron Collider powers up to unravel mysteries of nature

Outside the small village of Meyrin, Switzerland, horses graze quietly in fields lined by the Jura mountains. You

Particle pings: sounds of the Large Hadron Collider

A researcher at the Large Hadron Collider has turned data from the massive atom smasher into sound. She has two main goals: Create a new way to analyze and study the data, and get non-scientists interested in the research.

Hunt for dark matter closes in at Large Hadron Collider

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists are closer than ever to finding the source of the Universe

How to print a clock, or a house … or another printer

MIT is pushing the boundaries of the 3D printing technology (3DP) it helped pioneer nearly two decades ago. 3DP printers build 3D solid objects by

How to make your hard drive infinite

A startup called Bitcasa has developed a small piece of software that, when you install it, makes the capacity of your computer