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A New Theory to Explain the Higgs Mass

By Natalie Wolchover
May 27, 2015
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Three physicists have proposed a new solution to one of the deepest mysteries in particle physics: why the Higgs boson has such a tiny mass.

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‘Penguin’ Anomaly Hints at Missing Particles

By Natalie Wolchover
March 20, 2015
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A statistical anomaly in the signal from rare particle decays at the Large Hadron Collider offers hope that new discoveries might be around the corner.

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Science’s Path From Myth to Multiverse

By Dan Falk
March 17, 2015
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In his latest book, the Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg explores how science made the modern world, and where it might take us from here.

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In LHC’s Shadow, America’s Collider Awakens

By Natalie Wolchover
March 6, 2015
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The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider fired up for its 15th run to take a deeper look at the building blocks of atoms.

Reaching for the Multiverse
Infinity and Beyond: The Ultimate Test

Multiverse Collisions May Dot the Sky

By Jennifer Ouellette
November 10, 2014
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Early in cosmic history, our universe may have bumped into another — a primordial clash that could have left traces in the Big Bang’s afterglow.

Infinity and Beyond: The Ultimate Test

In a Multiverse, What Are the Odds?

By Natalie Wolchover +1 authors
Peter Byrne
November 3, 2014
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Testing the multiverse hypothesis requires measuring whether our universe is statistically typical among the infinite variety of universes. But infinity does a number on statistics.

astrophysics

Dwarf Galaxies Dim Hopes of Dark Matter

By Natalie Wolchover
October 25, 2014
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For five years physicists have been tantalized by possible evidence of dark matter in the Milky Way’s center. But new results from small satellite galaxies have complicated the story.

particle physics

Quark Quartet Fuels Quantum Feud

By Natalie Wolchover
August 27, 2014
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Newly discovered particles are forcing physicists to extend their simple picture of subatomic interactions or replace it with a more nuanced understanding.

theoretical physics

At Multiverse Impasse, a New Theory of Scale

By Natalie Wolchover
August 18, 2014
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Physicists have begun to explore the idea that mass and length may not be fundamental properties of nature. The hypothesis could help to avoid the conclusion that our world is just a weird bubble in an endlessly foaming multiverse.


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