statistical significance

A headline has at least two responsibilities: to be cognisant of an interesting scientific idea, perhaps nuanced, as well as to quickly captivate the reader. Credit: thomasleuthard/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

What is a Headline’s Relationship With an Article About Uncertainty?

Vasudevan Mukunth 19/12/2016

Many articles are beginning to deal with objects that...

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LUX and LHC Haven’t Found the Particles They Were Looking for? No Problem

Vasudevan Mukunth 08/08/2016

Both the LHC and the LUX dark-matter experiment have...

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...

Inside one of the control centres of the collaborations working on the LHC at CERN. Each collaboration corresponds handles an experiment, or detector, stationed around the LHC tunnel. Credit: CERN

New LHC Data Has More of the Same But Could Something Be in the Offing?

Vasudevan Mukunth 15/12/2015

Data from the machine's upgraded run in 2015 offers...

Reconstruction of an event in the LHCb detector. Credit: LHCb/CERN

Weak But Recurring Anomalous Signal Rivets Particle Physicists

Vasudevan Mukunth 07/09/2015

Observing the same kind of signal in three different...