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The Particle Blasting Experiment That's Trying to Determine Why Matter Exists
By bombarding a 14,000-ton plastic structure with cosmic rays, from 500 miles away.
The World's Most Powerful Space Camera Begins Another Year of Incredible Photos
The Dark Energy Survey returns this fall. If it's anything like the first, expect many more wild space discoveries.
The Higgs Boson Interpreted as Cuban Dance Music
Data and statistical analysis is a hard thing to explain to a public not accustomed to it and more used to pop culture imaginings of scientists just finding shit in sudden _eureka!_ moments. Based on a cross-section of interactions over the years...
The Last Days of the Tevatron
When the Tevatron opened in 1983 at Fermi National Laboratory, outside Chicago, it was the world’s most powerful particle accelerator.
Speaking of U.S. Cuts to Science ...
Let's assume you've already watched our "brand new documentary":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/7/25/motherboard-tv-a-death-on-the-frontier--4 on Fermilab's Tevatron collider and America's steadily growing reticence to fund scientific research...
Motherboard TV: A Death on the Frontier
The hunt for the Higgs boson, god particle or goddamn particle, the one that gives things mass, came closer to an end on July 4. Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Europe, the world's largest particle accelerator, found evidence of the...
For Chrissakes, Stop Calling It 'God Particle'
Detecting and cross-checking (and cross-checking again) the existence of the Higgs boson is a big undertaking and an important one, so its attention from the press is understandable - laudable, even. But the problem with covering the Higgs boson search...
What Is the Higgs Boson?
We took to the streets of Williamsburg to figure out what the fuss is all about.
It Did Hurt: An Interview with Fermilab Physicist Rob Roser on Searching for Higgs in America
Physicist Rob Roser is head of the Scientific Computing Division and formerly a spokesman for the CDF experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron accelerator, in Batavia, Illinois, an hour outside of Chicago. The Tevatron was switched off last September, leaving...
For the Love of God Particle, the God Particle Has Not (Yet) Been 'Discovered'
Hey, did you hear the big news? The Higgs boson has been discovered!!!! Oh wait. No it hasn't. Well, at least not yet. So please, for the love of theorized God particles, please refrain for the time being from shitting bricks and/or popping the...
CERN Spikes the Football: Higgs Boson Discovery Coming on Fourth of July
CERN is set to announce the discovery of proof that the Higgs boson “almost certainly” exists, according to the AP. That’s a big freaking deal; it’s been more than 50 years since the God particle was first theorized, and it’s the last piece of the...