Friday 23 December 2022
Thursday 22 December 2022
Wednesday 21 December 2022
Saturday 17 December 2022
First glimpse of 7-planet system with potentially habitable worlds
Friday 16 December 2022
Thursday 15 December 2022
Wednesday 14 December 2022
Friday 9 December 2022
Oldest-ever DNA shows mastodons roamed Greenland 2 million years ago
Thursday 8 December 2022
Did physicists create a wormhole in a quantum computer?
Tuesday 6 December 2022
Sunday 4 December 2022
Saturday 3 December 2022
67-million-year-old fossil upends bird evolutionary tree
Friday 2 December 2022
Thursday 1 December 2022
Ancient skull uncovered in China could be million-year-old Homo erectus
Saturday 26 November 2022
Wednesday 23 November 2022
Tuesday 22 November 2022
Saturday 19 November 2022
Bronze hand might rewrite history of Basque
Tuesday 15 November 2022
Mathematician who solved prime-number riddle claims new breakthrough
Friday 21 October 2022
First known Neanderthal family discovered in Siberian cave
Thursday 20 October 2022
Wednesday 19 October 2022
Friday 14 October 2022
Neurones in a dish learn to play computer game
Thursday 13 October 2022
Wednesday 12 October 2022
Underground microbes may have swarmed ancient Mars
Saturday 1 October 2022
Thursday 29 September 2022
Last images from DART as it crashed into an asteroid
Wednesday 28 September 2022
China’s Mars rover finds hints of catastrophic floods
Wednesday 21 September 2022
NASA’s Mars rover makes ‘fantastic’ find in search for past life
Friday 16 September 2022
Thursday 15 September 2022
Genes May Explain HowThis Jellyfish Can Live Forever
Wednesday 14 September 2022
Saturday 10 September 2022
Did this gene give modern human brains their edge?
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Neanderthals had the larger brains, and all 'out of Africa' humans have Neanderthal ancestry.
Wednesday 31 August 2022
Webb telescope spots CO2 on exoplanet for first time
Saturday 27 August 2022
‘Levitating’ nanoparticles could push the limits of quantum entanglement
Friday 26 August 2022
Seven-million-year-old femur suggests Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright
Thursday 25 August 2022
Saturday 20 August 2022
Huge megalithic complex of more than 500 standing stones discovered in Spain
Friday 19 August 2022
Thursday 18 August 2022
Notorious dark-matter signal could be due to analysis error
Friday 29 July 2022
AI predicts shape of nearly every known protein
Friday 22 July 2022
Molecular motor is ‘DNA origami’ milestone
Thursday 21 July 2022
Ear fossils hint at origin of warm-blooded mammals
Wednesday 20 July 2022
Mass and Angular Momentum, Left Ambiguous by Einstein, Get Defined
Tuesday 19 July 2022
Hoatzin could reshape avian taxonomy
Wednesday 13 July 2022
Root-cropping behaviour in gophers may represent a kind of husbandry
Tuesday 5 July 2022
Five things we don’t know about the Higgs boson
- So far, scientists have determined that the boson’s properties — such as its interaction strength — match those predicted by the standard model, but with an uncertainty of around 10%. This is not good enough to show the subtle differences predicted by new physics theories.
- Physicists have seen the Higgs boson decay into only the heaviest matter particles, such as the bottom quark. They now want to check whether it interacts in the same way with particles from lighter families, known as generations.
- The Higgs boson has mass, so it should interact with itself, and the rate of this self-interaction is crucial to understanding the Universe. But such events — for example, the decay of an energetic Higgs boson to two less-energetic ones — are extremely rare and haven’t been conclusively observed yet.
- Physicists want to know the lifetime of the Higgs — how long, on average, it sticks around before decaying to other particles — because any deviation from predictions could point to interactions with unknown particles, such as those that make up dark matter.
- Some theories that extend the standard model predict that the Higgs boson is made up of other particles, or that there are different types of Higgs boson. Future observations could provide evidence if any of these exotic predictions are true.
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