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2014

2013

  • August 5, 2013. Latest CERN news from the CERN press office. CERN is "the world's largest particle physics laboratory" --Wikipedia, CERN.
  • July 31, 2013. The political will emerges for a revival of science in Pakistan. Nature News.
  • April 12, 2013. This week Nature News covers the investigation of silenced Canadian scientists, the addition of female EU scientists, a new editor for the well known scientific journal Science, and other science news. Nature News.
  • April 10, 2013. Data shows that Saturn's ionosphere is flooded by rainwater transferred from Saturn's rings. Nature (Letter)
  • April 10, 2013. "Germany hopes to generate at least 35% of its electricity from green sources by 2020; by 2050, the share is expected to surpass 80%." Nature News feature
  • March 2, 2013. For the first time since the Apollo program, astronauts will fly beyond Earth orbit sometime next year. See NASA News.
  • February 27, 2013. "A tireless advocate for science" - Norman Augustine. Nature News.

2012

  • October 4, 2012. Technology continues to satisfy the needs of new businesses and may be affecting the current U.S. rate of employment. Additionally, since 1977 new businesses have been responsible for most of the employment in the U.S.A., but the rate of new start-up companies appears to be slowing. New York Times.
  • July 12, 2012. Discovery of Pluto's fifth moon. Astronomers announce the discovery of S/2012 P 1 -- the fifth moon of Pluto. It was identified with the Hubble Telescope. "The newfound moon and its kin may be remnants of an ancient smashup." -- Nature News
  • July 4, 2012. Two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider point to a new but highly anticipated boson and it behaves like the sought after Standard Model Higgs boson. Such a quick final outcome was unexpected because CERN has been in operation for only two years and operating at only half-power. According to CERN a "one sigma means the results could be random fluctuations in the data, 3 sigma counts as an observation and a 5-sigma result is a discovery." Also, a 5 sigma measurement means a 99.9999 certainty.
Hence, at CERN in Geneva the latest preliminary results were presented for the ATLAS and CMS experiments. Spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti said, "The results are preliminary but the 5 sigma signal at around 125 GeV we’re seeing is dramatic. This is indeed a new particle. We know it must be a boson and it’s the heaviest boson ever found. The implications are very significant and it is precisely for this reason that we must be extremely diligent in all of our studies and cross-checks." According to CERN positive identification of the new particle’s characteristics will take considerable time and data. CERN website, CERN press release, and New York Times article
  • July 9, 2012. Some implications of at last finding the Higgs Boson. Science section. The New York Times.
  • April 6, 2012. "Scientists must find ways to improve academic efficiency if they are to keep their independence." Nature News
  • April 2, 2012. Suprluminal neutrino experiment errors are discussed and project leaders step down. Nature News

2011

Neptune from Voyager 2 with Great Dark Spot at left
Artist's rendering of the MESSENGER probe in orbit around Mercury

2010

Artist's depiction of the asteroid sampling probe, Hayabusa.
More physics news is available from Wikinews and the Current Events portal
Venus
Some migration routes
The Space Shuttle Atlantis blasts off for its final mission. 2010

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