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November 2012
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November 27, 2012breaking: Stellar black widows entrap companion starsOf the hundreds of objects in the universe emitting gamma rays, two look to be "black widows," ancient stars extending their lives by sucking in material from companion stars. Stanford physicist Roger Romani is hot on the trail of these extreme stars.
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November 19, 2012breaking: Arrow of time prefers to point forwardTo a single, isolated particle, time’s arrow could work just as well pointing forward as backward. But it doesn’t, says the BaBar collaboration.
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November 15, 2012breaking: New particle-like structure confirmed at the LHCScientists at the CMS experiment at CERN have spotted an exotic combination of particles previously observed in the CDF experiment at Fermilab.
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November 12, 2012breaking: BOSS collaboration measures expansion of the universe 11 billion years agoThe BOSS collaboration has looked so far back in time that they observed the period before dark energy began to dominate the largest scales of the universe.
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November 8, 2012breaking: Lead-proton collisions yield surprising effect in CMS experimentCMS physicists have once again found a “ridge” in their data, this time in lead–proton collisions.
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November 7, 2012breaking: Social scientists: Far-flung physicists meet face-to-faceA tidal wave of gamma-ray scientists swept into Monterey, California, for the Fourth International Fermi Symposium, and despite the idyllic photo of a lovely local beach that graced the event poster, they didn’t come for the sun and surf. They came for science—and some face time.
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November 5, 2012breaking: East Coasters brave Hurricane Sandy to keep neutrino project on scheduleHurricane Sandy hit the night before an important project review, but scientists, engineers and project personnel didn't let that stand in their way.
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November 1, 2012breaking: Fermi telescope gazes through fog to count the starsA recent measurement of how many gamma rays make it through a cosmic “fog” of starlight reveals just how many stars there are in the universe.
October 2012
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October 23, 2012breaking: SLAC gets a new directorX-ray scientist Chi-Chang Kao will serve as SLAC's fifth director, assuming the role on November 1.
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October 18, 2012breaking: Angry Birds to teach particle physicsThe vengeful Angry Birds cardinal sets his sights on a new target: teaching kids particle physics.
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October 9, 2012breaking: Nobel honors research by particle trappersSerge Haroche and David Wineland, who opened a new era of research by building particle traps and experimenting with individual particles without destroying them, were honored with the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics.
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October 5, 2012breaking: Stars dancing around a black hole may test relativityThe Keck Observatory's observations of two stars orbiting the black hole at the center of our galaxy may reveal insight into the curvature of space-time.
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October 2, 2012breaking: Panofsky Prize honors researchers' underground hunt for dark matterThe search for dark matter runs deep with physicists Blas Cabrera and Bernard Sadoulet, who have chased this mystery far underground and will be recognized for their work as joint recipients of the 2013 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics.
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October 1, 2012breaking: HEP open access initiative at crucial junctureA meeting at CERN launches the next phase of SCOAP3, an initiative to give the public free access to the scientific literature on particle physics.
September 2012
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September 27, 2012breaking: The Einstein papers: A physicist in turbulent seasA new volume of Einstein’s collected papers shows a publicly triumphant but personally troubled man.
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September 27, 2012breaking: Researchers propose machine for a clean, mean neutrino beamScientists hope to enlist the help of muons in their quest to find a fourth type of neutrino.
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September 26, 2012breaking: CERN artist-in-residence mixes order and uncertaintyJulius von Bismarck uses rules to create a sense of chaos in his latest piece.
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September 25, 2012breaking: JLab prepares accelerator for new era of explorationJefferson Lab's Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility will return with double the energy and a host of other enhancements designed to delve even deeper into the structure of matter.
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September 24, 2012breaking: DOE advances US ATLAS, US CMS detector upgrade plansThe Department of Energy has given its first stage of approval for plans for the United States to participate in detector upgrades at the Large Hadron Collider.
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September 19, 2012breaking: Second Fermilab muon experiment achieves first stage of approvalThe Department of Energy has announced Mission Need approval for the Muon g-2 experiment.
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