A ‘Blue Tongue’ on Mercury (NASA, MESSENGER, 05/16/11) (by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center)
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This high-resolution color...
View of the Li River
Plants Prepare the Night Before to Fight Bugs
In a study of the molecular underpinnings of plants’ pest resistance, biologists have shown that...
The Higgs Boson may have been found!!!
A typical candidate event including two high-energy photons whose energy (depicted by red towers) is measured in the CMS (Compact Muom Solenoid).
Credit: © 2011 CERN
Source: Candidate events in the CMS Standard Model Higgs Search using 2010 and 2011 data.
More
- Text background on the Higgs, and a glossary of important terms in Higgs research can be found here.
- CERN on Twitter
- Watch the live webcast
- Interesting entry in the blog of the theorist physicist Luboš Motl (Higgs: 17 hours ahead of the world)
(via proofmathisbeautiful)
next year’s data should settle
stuff, but this is super important.