The discovery of the Higgs boson has been a fascinating journey for physicists around the world, since the particle was first detected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) about twelve years ago. This monumental discovery, which confirms the existence of the elusive particle theorized nearly half a century earlier, has opened up new avenues for … Read more
This article was originally published on The conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com Expert Voices: Opinion Pieces and Insights. Alan Cooper is a professor at Charles Sturt University Pavle Arsenovic is a senior scientist at the University of Natural Resources and Life Science (BOKU). The remarkable aurora borealis in early May this year … Read more
Credit: Harrison Haines from Pexels The remarkable aurora in early May of this year showed the power that solar storms can emit as radiation, but every now and then the sun does something much more destructive. These explosions of protons, which come directly from the sun’s surface and are known as “solar particle events,” can … Read more
The remarkable aurora in early May of this year showed the power that solar storms can emit as radiation, but every now and then the sun does something much more destructive. These explosions of protons, fired directly from the sun’s surface and shooting out into space like a searchlight, are known as “solar particle events.” … Read more
A team of physicists from the University of California, Berkeley, has developed an unprecedentedly precise instrument designed to hunt for dark energy, the elusive force accelerating the expansion of the universe. Their experiment – the results of which were published today in the prestigious journal Nature – focuses on a hypothesized particle known as the … Read more
We have a new upper limit for the light mass. According to measurements of pulsating stars scattered across the Milky Way and mysterious radio signals from other galaxies, a particle of light – called a photon – cannot be heavier than 9.52 × 10-46 kilograms. It’s a small limit, but if we discover that light … Read more