Category: Physics

CERN understands anti-matter just a bit more

CERN scientists’ breakthrough experiment helps unravel mysteries of antimatter Scientists at CERN have made another breakthrough – announcing that they are now able to measure antimatter on the optical spectrum. By shining a laser...

Gravitational waves directly detected at LIGO

Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein’s Prediction For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the...

Discovery of a new class of particles at the LHC

The LHC Has Discovered a Brand New Class of Particles Just months after switching the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) back on at record-breaking energy levels, researchers at CERN in Switzerland have reported the discovery...

Gravity Waves detected?

Big Bang breakthrough announced; gravitational waves detected There’s no way for us to know exactly what happened some 13.8 billion years ago, when our universe burst onto the scene. But scientists announced Monday a...

Neutrinos from another galaxy?

Antarctic Experiment Possibly Detects Particles from Another Galaxy I don’t get to write hyperbolic science fiction titles very often, but I couldn’t resist this one. Even if it’s not entirely accurate; in reality the...