Month: March 2016

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located just outside Batavia, Illinois. The larger ring houses the Tevatron, a particle accelerator that operated until 2011, when it was shut because its capabilities had been superseded by the LHC. Credit: pedrik/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

All You Need to Know to Get Started on Particle Physics

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/03/2016

Because of the scale at which its experiments are...

© Aaron Tilley and Kerry Hughes

Dysphagia: It’s Like Being Waterboarded 24 Hours a Day

Bryn Nelson 20/03/2016

One morning, completely unexpectedly, Samantha Anderson woke to find...

A scanning electron microscope image of normal circulating human blood. In addition to the irregularly shaped leukocytes, both red blood cells and many small disc-shaped platelets are visible. Caption & credit: Wikimedia Commons

Crosstalk: How Two Modest Heroes Won the Battle Against Childhood Leukaemia

Sunil Laxman 20/03/2016

Y. Subbarow and Sidney Farber developed a friendship recognising...

The Cheonggyecheon stream. Credit: stari4ek/ Wikimedia Commons

Lessons from Seoul: How to Revive a River and Manage a Landfill

Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty 19/03/2016

Seoul can teach Delhi a few things on how...

This image shows a collision event with a photon pair observed by the CMS detector in proton-collision data collected in 2015 with no magnetic field present. The energy deposits of the two photons are represented by the two large green towers. The mass of the di-photon system is between 700 and 800 GeV. The candidates are consistent with what is expected for prompt isolated photons. Caption & credit © 2016 CERN

Physicists Excited as Prospects for Suspected New Fundamental Particle Improve

Vasudevan Mukunth 19/03/2016

Although the data's statistical significance isn't as good as...

An antibiotic disc – used to test how susceptible certain bacteria are to being acted upon by different chemical combinations. Credit: Iqbal Osman/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

WHO Urges Action as Threat of Invincible ‘Super Bacteria’ Looms

Nandita Jayaraj 18/03/2016

With reports of bacteria having breached a last resort...

Andrew Wiles at a lecture in Boston, Massachusetts, 1995. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Andrew Wiles Wins 2016 Abel Prize for Proving Fermat’s Last Theorem

Vasudevan Mukunth 18/03/2016

The history and mathematical complexity of Fermat's Last Theorem...