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China Launches Country's First Dark Matter Satellite
Dec 18, 2015China sents into space the country's first Dark Matter Particle Explorer Satellite on Thursday. [Photo: weibo.com] China on Thursday sent into space the country's first space telescope in a fresh search for signals of dark matter, ...
Tags: Dark Matter, Satellite, DAMPE
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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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Moore's New Law Is That Big Data Will Lead to Big Science
Jan 13, 2014Moore's new law is that big data will lead to big science. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation plans to give US$1.5 million grants (in $200 000 to $300 000 yearly installments) to 15 worthy interdisciplinary scientists who can develop and ...
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Moore's New Law Is That Big Data Will Lead to Big Science
Jan 9, 2014Moore's new law is that big data will lead to big science. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation plans to give US$1.5 million grants (in $200 000 to $300 000 yearly installments) to 15 worthy interdisciplinary scientists who can develop and ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Big Data, Computer Products
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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 Making The Infrastructure More Flexible with OpenStack for Virtualization
Jun 21, 2013CERN is making the infrastructure that handles the data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) more flexible by upgrading it with OpenStack for virtualization and Puppet for configuration management. The research organization's objective is ...
Tags: CERN, IT Infrastructure, OpenStack, Puppet
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Thinking War Machines Means to U.S. Security Are Growing Darker and More Dire
Jun 20, 2013WASHINGTON -- Unlike China and Europe, the U.S. has yet to adopt and fund an exascale development program, and concerns about what that means to U.S. security are growing darker and more dire. China's retaking of the global supercomputing ...
Tags: War Machines, Exascale
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Scientists Are Getting Some Clues About Where All The Anti-Matter Went
Apr 27, 2013Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider say they are getting some clues about where all the anti-matter went. That is a big deal because scientists have long been trying to figure out why anti-matter seemed to disappear. The answer may ...
Tags: Scientists, universe
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Planck Space Given Scientists New Information About Age, Content and Origin of Universe
Mar 21, 2013The Planck space mission has given scientists new information about the age, content and origin of the universe. Planck, which lifted off in May 2009 on a mission to decipher the mysteries behind the creation of the universe, has created ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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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 ...
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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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UK Physicists Are Among The Recipients of Two $3M Special Prizes Awarded
Jan 17, 2013UK physicists are among the recipients of two $3M special prizes awarded by the Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation. One of the prizes has been awarded to Professor Stephen Hawking (University of Cambridge) for his discovery of Hawking ...
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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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HGST May Not Have Picked Best Time to Have a Breakthrough in Hard-Disk Drive Innovation
Dec 31, 2012Computerworld - Western Digital's HGST subsidiary may not have picked the best time to have a breakthrough in hard-disk drive innovation. After a decade of trying, HGST recently perfected a method to seal helium gas inside drives. The ...
Tags: hard disk drive, helium gas inside drives, hard drives