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Breaking Open the Unknown Universe
Big Smash: Atlas's eight giant superconducting magnets, together powerful enough to crush a bus CERN View Photo GalleryThe proton is a persistent thing. The first one crystallized out of the...
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The Fast Way Around
Large Hadron Collider Kevin Hand The purpose of the LHC is to get lots of protons moving very, very fast. The magnet system is the core piece of technology that makes this happen. More than 1,200...
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LHC May Locate The Higher Dimensions Next Year
A Collimeter at the LHC The collimation system protects the LHC against damage due to beam loss. Claudia Marcelloni, CERN The Large Hadron Collider took several years to construct, and it was expected...
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A Tantalizing Glimpse That May Be the Higgs Boson — But Wait For 2012
CMS Collision Event A typical candidate event including two high-energy photons whose energy (depicted by dashed yellow lines and red towers) is measured in the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter. The...
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Full Higgs Boson Results Officially Published
Higgs Candidate Event A proton-proton collision event in the CMS experiment produces two high-energy photons (the red towers). This is what physicists would expect to see from the decay of a Higgs...
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From DARPA, A Virtual Tool To Revolutionize Robotics
Atlas The Gazebo software lets you download a fully detailed virtual model of Atlas, pictured here, one of the world's most advanced humanoid robots. DARPA The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), the most...
View ArticleWatch This Untrippable Robot Strut Its Stuff
Boston Dynamics, makers of some of the coolest, most terrifying robots around, have already showed off prototypes of their humanoid Atlas robot, but we haven't quite seen it in action like this. Look...
View ArticleRescue Robot ATLAS Breaks Its Ankle During Public Debut [Video]
There's a good case to be made that the media overhypes how scary some robots are. Point taken. But I don't think anyone would deny that the 'bots created by the company Boston Dynamics are at least...
View ArticleTerrifying Humanoid Robot ATLAS Defeated By Block Of Wood
ATLAS--the totally incredible Boston Dynamics robot that strikes love and fear into the hearts of all who witness its humanoid stride--is having a tough time lately. Last month it broke its ankle...
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How We're Finding Asteroids Before They Find Us
Data Visualization by Jan Willem Tulp Marco Tantardini spent the year of 2010 dreaming about asteroids. A thickly bearded, 26-year-old Italian who wore a black-leather jacket and rode a motorcycle,...
View ArticleBreaking Open the Unknown Universe
The proton is a persistent thing. The first one crystallized out of the universe's chaotic froth just 0.00001 of a second after the big bang, when existence was squeezed into…
View ArticleThe Fast Way Around
The purpose of the LHC is to get lots of protons moving very, very fast. The magnet system is the core piece of technology that makes this happen. More than 1,200 magnet…
View ArticleLHC May Locate The Higher Dimensions Next Year
The Large Hadron Collider took several years to construct, and it was expected that it would take several more to begin yielding game-changing scientific data. But, to the…
View ArticleA Tantalizing Glimpse That May Be the Higgs Boson — But Wait For 2012
Physicists at CERN may have caught the first whiffs of the elusive Higgs boson, researchers announced this morning, but more numbers must be crunched before anyone will claim…
View ArticleFull Higgs Boson Results Officially Published
Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider announced their Higgs boson likely-discovery on July 4, but now it's (a little) more official: The first scientific papers describing the new Higgs-like boson...
View ArticleFrom DARPA, A Virtual Tool To Revolutionize Robotics
The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), the most ambitious robot competition in history, cleared a key milestone yesterday. The Pentagon's research wing announced the results of the Virtual Robotics...
View ArticleHow We're Finding Asteroids Before They Find Us
Marco Tantardini spent the year of 2010 dreaming about asteroids. A thickly bearded, 26-year-old Italian who wore a black-leather jacket and rode a motorcycle, Tantardini…
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