Have we found the Higgs boson?
Find out if we have, and why it matters, this Wednesday at 6 pm in a joint press conference in Melbourne and Geneva. [continue reading…]
Physics
Have we found the Higgs boson? Find out in Melbourne on Wed 4 July at the International Conference for High Energy Physics
Deep under the French-Swiss border, particle physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have been looking for the Higgs boson – a subatomic particle which may or may not exist. [continue reading…]
Building CERN’s LHC out of Lego at Scienceworks
At Scienceworks this weekend parents and kids are building a Lego model of a piece of the Large Hadron Collider – that’s CERN’s 27km long particle accelerator buried underneath the French-Swiss border which is looking for the Higgs boson, aka the “God particle”
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Winning the fight against hep C…have we found the Higgs boson…spinal cord repair; forever young
Here’s some highlights of what’s coming up over the next few days/weeks.
- Future hepatitis cure rates expected to soar with new drugs
- Have we found the Higgs boson – find out in Melbourne on Monday 9 July
- Spinal cord repair is easy for zebra fish
- Will engineering play the lead role in drug discovery in 2030?
- Forever Young – Professor Dame Linda Partridge speaking 18 July
- Inspiring Australia grants to be announced Tuesday 12 June – weird and wonderful activities supported in every State and Territory.
How our intelligence changes through life; students flocking to science; deadly energy drinks; and other stories
Find below discoveries on IQ, epilepsy, energy drinks and more.
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Oz research of note, 16 January, 2012
A fly named in honour of Beyoncé; plum extracts as food preservatives; and the crucial role of social media during the 2011 Queensland floods are just some of the interesting stories that emerged from Australian research published in the last week. Find over a dozen other stories below.
Diabetes in pregnancy, X-ray body scanners, the language gene, and those slippery neutrinos
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about diabetes in pregnancy, X-ray body scanners, the language gene, those slippery neutrinos, and more…
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Solar soldiers, cocaine cravings, nanobots, and Venetian acoustics
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about solar soldiers, cocaine cravings, nanobots, Venetian acoustics, and more…
Travelling faster than light, a vaccine for acne and missing planets
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about travelling faster than light; ancient proteins; a vaccine for acne; missing planets; and more… [continue reading…]
Revealing the dark side – in Tasmania this week
What we see in the night sky is only five per cent of the Universe. So what’s the other 95 per cent of the Universe made of – a young physicist has the answers across Tasmania this week.
One of Australia’s leading young physicists will reveal the dark secrets of the Universe in Tasmania this week with a series of school and public talks in Burnie, Launceston, Devonport and Hobart.
Dr Tamara Davis is a L’Oréal Australia Fellow, the 2011 national Women in Physics lecturer, an astrophysicist at the Universities of Queensland and Copenhagen, and good talent. [continue reading…]
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