Apr 30
On April 20, 1993, researchers at CERN–the same organization responsible for discovering the Higgs boson–made an announcement that they were establishing the World Wide Web as a free and open source platform that anyone could use. Since creating that first page 20 years ago, the Web has exploded as an essential method for spreading information, commerce, …
Dec 03
Researchers at Germany’s Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy recently made a startling discovery at the center of NGC 1277, a galaxy in constellation Perseus: the largest black hole ever detected, with a mass approximately 17 billion times the mass of our Sun. The discovery has astronomers wondering how such a black hole can even exist and how …
Jul 04
It’s official: two teams at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced today the long-awaited discovery of a new particle that fits the characteristics of the Higgs boson, also known as the ‘God’ particle. As the most sought after particle in physics, the elusive Higgs boson has long been a critical element of the …
May 03
What would happen if you put your hand in the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider? That was the question put to the scientists working on the collider, which is located in a long tunnel, 175 meters below the French-Swiss border. The beam is extremely intense–the energy like an aircraft carrier …