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Charles Lieber case: A high-energy probe of science
There’s a phenomenon in high-energy particle physics that I’ve found instructive as a metaphor to explain some things whose inner character may not be apparent to us but whose true nature is exposed in extreme situations. For example, consider the … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Keating, Charles Lieber, China Initiative, high-energy physics, Nobel Prizes, Thousand Talents Program
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The nomenclature of uncertainty
Many science articles in the past year dealt with observations falling short of the evidence threshold but which have been worth writing about simply because of the desperation behind them. Has this prompted science writers to think about the language they use? Continue reading
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Tagged blackholes, Forbes, futurism, gravitational waves, headlines, high-energy physics, LIGO, nature, science journalism, Scientific American, statistical significance, The Wire, uncertainty
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The Large Hadron Collider is back online, ready to shift from the “what” of reality to “why”
The world’s single largest science experiment will restart on March 23 after a two-year break. Scientists and administrators at the European Organization for Nuclear Research – known by its French acronym CERN – have announced the status of the agency’s upgrades on its Large … Continue reading
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Tagged accelerator complex, antimatter, CERN, dark matter, extra dimensions, Francois Englert, Higgs boson, high-energy physics, Large Hadron Collider, magnetic quenching, particle accelerators, particle physics, supersymmetry
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New Higgs results show signs of SUSY
Two years ago, physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider first announced the discovery of a Higgs boson-like particle, setting the high-energy physics community atwitter. And it was only a couple weeks ago that physicists also announced that the particle was … Continue reading
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Tagged Higgs boson, high-energy physics, International Conference on High Energy Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Standard Model of particle physics, supersymmetry, W bosons
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