Physics

What hurts you is not what you don't know, but those mistaken assumptions which "everyone knows to be true".[The following text is courtesy Andras Kovacs - T.D.] This post is related to the book…

I am currently in Bangkok, where the final 2019 meeting of the CMS collaboration started today. The meeting was inaugurated this morning with an official visit of Her Royal Highness Princess…

Last month the Museum of Natural History of Venice hosted, in the last room of the exhibit called "room of the cetaceans" (where a large skeleton of a whale hangs from the ceiling), an exhibit of…

Is there a fifth force of Nature, beyond the four we know about ? This question has been around ever since it was understood that 1 - electric charges attract and repel, and influence one…

[I extorted the text below from my friend and colleague Andrea Giammanco, who has been one of the driving forces behind a new scientific result at the crossroads of nuclear and particle physics - TD…

Written by Francesco Sylos Labini and Martín López Corredoira. This year the committee of the Nobel Prize in Physics has gifted humanity with a poetic touch: “for contributions to our understanding…

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table of Elements, whose inventor is Dmitrii Mendeleev, a Russian physicist who is famous for that achievement but who actually gave enormous…

If you have a minute to spend watching something really cool, why not having a look at the completion of the installment of GEM detectors in the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, ***…

The most recent preprint in the ArXiv this evening is an APPEC report on the neutrinoless double beta decay. This is the thick result of a survey of the state of the art in the search for a very (…

This week's Plot relates to the search of rare decays of the Higgs boson, through the analysis of the large amounts of proton-proton collision data produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN's…