Particle Physics
Particle physics is the study of the basic elements of matter and the forces which act among these basic elements. The goal of particle physics is to discover the fundamental laws tha...
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Fields and Particles
Broadly speaking, a field is a collection of properties ascribed to regions of space (one might also speak of the region itself as being "the field"); if the propert...
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Scientists need help sorting through an unusual digital photo album: pictures of about 1 million galaxies.They are asking volunteers on the Internet to help classify the galaxies as either elliptic...
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The world's most ambitious particle collider _ which scientists hope could reveal what matter is made of _ might not be fully functional until next year, months after its scheduled startup date, of...
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The world's biggest particle collider will start up next May, six months behind schedule because of problems, including the failure of a key U.S. designed part, the European Organization for Nuclea...
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Scientists want Internet users to help them sort through an unusual digital photo album: pictures of about 1 million galaxies. In a Web statement Wednesday, astronomers asked for volunteers to help...
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Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, a physicist who was a consultant on the Manhattan Project and devoted much of his life to promoting nuclear arms control, has died. He was 88.Panofsky, affectionally known a...
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Particle Physics
Fields and Particles
Online help sought to organize galaxies
