frolleinbombus:

La rotonde du soleil by Mon Œil on Flickr.

ambientclouds:

Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu

“The Milky Way’s disk is like champagne with bubbles all over the place.”

mothernaturenetwork:

Scientists catch neutrinos in bizarre disappearing act
Antimatter neutrino particles have been observed transforming into other particles in an experiment in China.

thequantumlife:

Data Hint at Hypothetical Particle, Key to Mass in the Universe

Physicists from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., say they have found a bump in their data that might be the long-soughtHiggs boson, a hypothesized particle that is responsible for endowing other elementary particles with mass.

The signal, in data collected over the last several years at Fermilab’s Tevatron accelerator, agrees roughly with results announced last December from two independent experimental groups working at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, outside Geneva.

 “Based on the current Tevatron data and results compiled through December 2011 by other experiments, this is the strongest hint of the existence of a Higgs boson,” said the report, which will be presented on Wednesday by Wade Fisher of Michigan State University to a physics conference in La Thuile, Italy.

None of these results, either singly or collectively, are strong enough for scientists to claim victory. But the recent run of reports has encouraged them to think that the elusive particle, which is the key to mass and diversity in the universe, is within sight, perhaps as soon as this summer.

finally on my way

theonlymagicleftisart:

(Akira Beard)