Physics

The Higgs boson has been discovered last year. There is no news today. It is merely the significance level that is a little higher now, but even a level of so called “five sigma” (don’t worry if you…

The long and complicated journey to detect the Higgs boson might finally have reached its goal, said experimental physicists at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN, near Geneva - and…

[ The first three entries of this live blogging series are available here (part 1) and here (part 2) and here (part 3) and here (part 4) and here (part 5)]. 8.55 AM. So here we go. The seminar is…

[ The first three entries of this live blogging series are available here (part 1) and here (part 2) and here (part 3) and here (part 4)].Ian Sample, a science journalist from the Guardian, asked me…

Below is a live streaming webcast from the auditorium at CERN, where they will be revealing the latest news on the Higgs discovery. Science 2.0's Dr. Tommaso Dorigo is writing live from there so…

[ The first three entries of this live blogging series are available here (part 1) and here (part 2) and here (part 3)] 7.30 AM People have started flowing in the Main Auditorium. It seems things…

[ The first two entries of this live blogging series are available here (part 1) and here (part 2) ] 7 AM. In thirty minutes the doors of the Main auditorium will open, and people will flood in. I…

This is the second post of a series of blogs that I am writing this morning, July 4th, to describe the ongoing happenings at CERN, where at 9AM the Higgs boson Observation will be announced by the…

5.30 AM. Getting in at CERN through the B entrance I see no living soul. "Ha" -I tell myself- "I have been worrying too much". 5.36 AM. But the people is all here since last night ! There is a huge…

By now it's been written on so many newspapers and magazines -including Nature (the magazine, not the bitch)- that if a colleague of mine tries to reproach me for writing about the impending seminar…