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Neutrinos Are Subatomic Particles, Electrically Neutral and Still Rather Mysterious
Feb 26, 2014(Phys.org) —Fermilab, run by the U.S. Department of Energy is going to great lengths to document and make known the work that is being done to build the country's next generation neutrino experiment—a twin campus endeavor known ...
Tags: Neutrino Experiment, NOvA, Enlarge Scientist, Fermilab
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Princeton-Led International Team Switched on a New Experiment
Jan 20, 2014In a laboratory under a mountain 80 miles east of Rome this fall, a Princeton-led international team switched on a new experiment aimed at finding a mysterious substance that makes up a quarter of the universe but has never been seen. The ...
Tags: Dark Matter, Project Aims
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Last Year's Discovery of The Higgs Boson Still Left Gaps in Understanding The Universe
Jan 14, 2014But in making the most precise measurements ever of the shape of electrons, a team of Harvard and Yale scientists, led by Harvard's Gerald Gabrielse, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, John Doyle, professor of physics, and ...
Tags: Higgs boson, shape of electrons, Standard Model, theory of nature
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GEANT Network Is Able to Access Capacity of up to 2 Terabits Per Second
Aug 5, 2013European Union researchers using the GEANT network will, from Wednesday, be able to access capacity of up to 2 terabits per second. GEANT is the superfast pan-European research network that helped discover the Higgs Boson particle at the ...
Tags: Network Upgrade
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CERN Is on The Verge of Signing a New Contract for IT Service Management Software
May 29, 2013The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, CERN, is on the verge of signing a new contract for IT service management (ITSM) software with ServiceNow - as long as the vendor provides enough visibility to ensure that CERN will not be ...
Tags: CERN, Computer Products
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A Particle Discovered in The Large Hadron Collider Last Year Is The Elusive Higgs Boson
Mar 14, 2013New data is bringing scientists much closer to proving that a particle discovered in the Large Hadron Collider last year is the elusive Higgs boson. Scientists with the collider said they have analyzed two and a half times more data than ...
Tags: Computer Product, software
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The Large Hadron Collider Is Being Shut Down for a Two-Year Overhaul
Feb 18, 2013The Large Hadron Collider, which discovered what is believed to be the elusive Higgs boson, is being shut down for a two-year overhaul. The shutdown began Wednesday, according to CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which ...
Tags: Large Hadron Collider, elusive Higgs boson, Nuclear Research
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Scientists May Be Preparing to Announce They've Found Proof That The God Particle
Dec 31, 2012Scientists may be preparing to announce Wednesday that they've found proof that the God particle,considered a key to understanding the great mysteries of the universe,exists. If that's the case,scientists will have taken a huge step in ...
Tags: God particle, proof
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Some Very Techie Words Have Been Very Popular This Year
Dec 31, 2012Some very techie words have been very popular this year. And just to prove it, the Oxford American Dictionaries announced its Word of the Year, along with a techy-flavored list of runner-ups this week. So, drum roll, please. The Word of ...
Tags: techie words, tech terms, contenders, 2012
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Scientists Are Nearly Positive They've Found The Elusive Higgs Boson
Dec 28, 2012Wrapping up the Large Hadron Collider's first three years of work, scientists are nearly positive they've found the elusive Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle." Scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, ...
Tags: CERN, Higgs boson, God particle, Scientists
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Physicists Trying to Understand Dark Matter
Dec 26, 2012Computerworld - Physicists trying to understand dark matter, anti-matter and the origin of the universe say the key to these great mysteries may lie with the discovery of a sub-atomic particle, whether it's the elusive Higgs boson or not. ...
Tags: anti matter, sub atomic particle, Stewart Smith, software
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It Has Been a Big Year for Some Tech Luminaries
Dec 20, 2012It has been a big year for some tech luminaries, with several of them getting a nod from editors picking Time Magazine's Person of the Year. Calling him the "architect of the New America," President Barack Obama Wednesday was named Time's ...
Tags: Person of the Year, Time's, Obama, tech industry
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A New Approach to Mobile Internet Protocols Could Improve The Usability and of Mobile App
Dec 18, 2012A new approach to mobile Internet protocols could improve the usability and reliability of mobile applications. At the annual Usenix tech conference last month in Boston, two MIT researchers formally unveiled a new protocol, and a remote ...
Tags: mobile Internet protocols, new approach, MIT
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LHC Which Aims to Answer Fundamental Questions of The Universe's Existence
Dec 6, 2012The Large Hadron Collider(LHC),which aims to answer fundamental questions of the universe's existence,is one of CERN's most important projects.But as the LHC produces 1PB of data every second,big data and lack of computing resources were ...
Tags: CERN, OpenStack, cloud computing, LHC, Essex
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The Organisation Switched on Clustered NAS Functionality in Its NetApp Devices This Summer
Oct 16, 2012The European Organisation for Nuclear Research–better known as CERN and home of the Large Hadron Collider–has implemented clustered NAS in its 2PB estate of NetApp filers. The organisation switched on clustered NAS ...
Tags: NAS capability, CERN, Clustering, file system