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Innovative camera records cosmic rays during full moon

On the night of 11–12 October, just a few hours after installation of its camera, the First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) recorded flashes of Cherenkov light from air showers induced by cosmic r...

LHCb looks to the future

Even though the physics harvest is now in full flow, the collaboration is already planning for the eventual upgrade of the experiment, which is scheduled to be ready for data-taking in 2019.

ALICE measures multi-strange baryons

The ALICE collaboration has measured the production of baryons containing two or three strange quarks in lead–lead collisions at the LHC, at an energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair, nearly 14 times...

SUSY: the search continues

Supersymmetry (SUSY) is still one of the strong candidates for physics beyond the Standard Model that could be detected in proton–proton collisions at the LHC.

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Dileptons: a window on force unification and extra-dimensions

The ATLAS Collaboration has published its latest search for neutral resonances decaying to pairs of leptons, either electrons or muons.

Scalar field could unlock supernova mystery

A new component of gravity, the scalar gravitational field, may explain the mechanism that allows the immense explosions of type II supernovae to take place.

VERITAS detects Crab pulsations at very high energies

The Crab nebula is the brightest persistent gamma-ray source in the sky with radiation detected up to very high energies (VHE), above 100 GeV. The surprising result of the Very Energetic Radiatio...

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Discovery of accelerating universe wins Nobel prize

Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess have been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant superno...