Kategori: Science

Mention the words, “splitting the atom,” and most people will automatically think of nuclear fission, bombs and radioactivity. Recently, however, physicists at Germany’s University of Bonn not only managed to “split” an atom in a different way — using quantum mechanics — but also put it back together again. Maximilian Genske, Noomen Belmechri, Andreas Steffen…

After years of searching, particle physicists say they have all but certainly pinned down the elusive Higgs boson. Popularly known as the “God particle,” this boson will help provide a better understanding of how most of the particles of nature acquire their mass, improving physicists’ understanding of the universe. A proton-proton collision event in the…