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May 2013
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May 16, 2013breaking: Moniz confirmed as Energy SecretaryThe US Senate has unanimously confirmed MIT physics professor Ernest Moniz as the next Secretary of Energy.
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May 7, 2013breaking: Smallest lab-made drop of liquid might cause strange particle behaviorA new result from the CMS collaboration takes a step toward revealing the origin of the mysterious ‘ridge effect.’
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May 2, 2013breaking: Dark-matter detector hears first particle popsThe COUPP-60 dark-matter experiment begins recording the trails of bubbles that passing particles form in its detector.
April 2013
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April 30, 2013breaking: Matter, antimatter, we all fall down—right?Scientists perform the first direct investigation into how antimatter interacts with gravity.
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April 24, 2013breaking: Strange beauty particle decays boost matterPhysicists from the LHCb collaboration observe CP violation in the decay of a particle made of beauty and strange quarks.
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April 23, 2013breaking: Icy experiment catches record-energy neutrinosThe IceCube experiment makes what could be an important step toward using neutrinos to find the source of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
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April 18, 2013breaking: Photowalk winners show modern beauty of scienceJudges announce the winners of the 2012 Global Particle Physics Photowalk.
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April 16, 2013breaking: LHC passes ‘ping-pong ball’ testPhysicists send an ultra-clean, miniature ping-pong ball through part of the Large Hadron Collider beam pipe to test for hidden defects.
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April 15, 2013breaking: Underground experiment sees possible hints of dark matterThe Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment adds new intrigue to the hunt for dark matter.
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April 3, 2013breaking: AMS tiptoes toward answer to dark-matter questionThe first result from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment improves on previous measurements, promises precise future results.
March 2013
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March 27, 2013breaking: NOvA neutrino detector sees first particlesThe NOvA neutrino detector, currently under construction, has already begun to take data from cosmic rays.
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March 26, 2013breaking: BESIII collaboration catches new particleA new particle spotted at China’s Beijing Electron Positron Collider raises more questions than it answers.
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March 26, 2013breaking: OPERA snags third tau neutrinoFor the third time since the OPERA detector began receiving beam in 2006, the experiment has caught a muon neutrino oscillating into a tau neutrino.
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March 21, 2013breaking: Planck reveals new insight into universeThe first cosmology results from the Planck satellite reveal an older universe populated with less dark energy and more matter than expected.
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March 14, 2013breaking: One step closer to the Higgs bosonIn analyses of a fundamental characteristic of the newly discovered Higgs-like particle—the ways in which it decays—scientists see even more Higgs-like behavior.
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March 12, 2013breaking: LHCb studies particle tipping the matter-antimatter scalesThe LHCb experiment at CERN reports precise new measurements—but leaves open the question of why our matter-dominated universe exists.
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March 6, 2013breaking: Higgs-like particle still looking like the HiggsScientists have started to exclude some of the more exotic scenarios for the Higgs-like boson.
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March 1, 2013breaking: Passing the torch at ATLASUniversity of Birmingham physicist Dave Charlton takes over from Fabiola Gianotti as the new spokesperson of the ATLAS experiment.
February 2013
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February 22, 2013breaking: Linear collider plans move forwardA new international organization will guide the development of a $7.78 billion particle accelerator that could be heir to the Large Hadron Collider.
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February 15, 2013breaking: Cosmic rays born in supernova aftermathOne hundred years after the discovery of cosmic rays, a team of particle astrophysicists has definitively determined one source of these abundant yet enigmatic particles.
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