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October 6, 2009
High-energy heavy ion collisions, which are studied at RHIC in Brookhaven and soon at the LHC in Geneva, can be a source of light flashes of a few yoctoseconds duration (a septillionth of a second, 10-24 s, or ys for short) — the time that light needs to traverse an atomic nucleus. This [...]

August 13, 2009
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US, have performed sophisticated laser measurements to detect the subtle effects of one of nature’s most elusive forces – the “weak interaction”. Their work, which reveals the largest effect of the weak interaction ever observed in an atom, [...]

August 7, 2009
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will initially run at an energy of 3.5 TeV per beam when it starts up in November this year. This news comes after all tests on the machine’s high-current electrical connections were completed last week, indicating that no further repairs are necessary for safe running.
“We’ve selected 3.5 TeV to [...]

When you go to physics and its sub branches, big discoveries are done about smallest particles you can imagine, since long ago scientist are trying to find a scientific explanation of world creation moment, how it changed and transformed until now to our beautiful blue planet many believes to be unique in the whole universe.
Why [...]