Category Archives: News

Gustafsson in PPC-CERN: “Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Observations of the Galactic Center”

Posted on June 19, 2011 by

  A forthcoming paper of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration will describe method and results yielding to the left plot (the right one is widely known).  A map of the galactic center after 2 years of Fermi operation by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) … Continue reading →

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Gunion in ArXiv: A 4th generation is ruled out if the SM Higgs has mass below 200 GeV

Posted on May 21, 2011 by

John F. Gunion (University of California, Davis) claims in “Ruling out a 4th generation using limits on hadron collider Higgs signals,” ArXiv, 19 May 2011, that the Tevatron and LHC data have essentially eliminated the possibility of a 4th generation … Continue reading →

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Brumfiel in Nature, “Latest results from the LHC are casting doubt on the theory of supersymmetry”

Posted on March 2, 2011 by

“Supersymmetry is a theory that solves a host of problems with our understanding of the subatomic world, but there is growing anxiety that the theory, however elegant it might be, is wrong. Data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27-kilometre … Continue reading →

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Arnold & Fowler on “Nefarious Numbers” about the impact factor manipulation

Posted on February 18, 2011 by

“Goodhart’s law warns us that “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” The impact factor has moved in recent years from an obscure bibliometric indicator to become the chief quantitative measure of the quality of a journal, … Continue reading →

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Henry et al. in PNAS, “Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of cooked foods in Neanderthal diets”

Posted on December 28, 2010 by

“Neanderthals diet includes the consumption of a variety of plant foods, in the form of phytoliths and starch grains recovered from dental calculus of Neanderthal skeletons from Shanidar Cave, Iraq, and Spy Cave, Belgium. Some of the plants are typical … Continue reading →

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Luc Montagnier, 2008 Nobel laureate, will follow the steps of Jacques Benveniste

Posted on December 23, 2010 by

“HIV discoverer and 2008 Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier announced earlier this month that, at age 78, he will take on the leadership of a new research institute at Jiaotong University in Shanghai.He plans to study electromagnetic waves that emanate from the … Continue reading →

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Aspelmeyer in Nature, “Quantum mechanics: The surf is up”

Posted on December 17, 2010 by

“Researchers have long wanted to be able to control macroscopic mechanical objects in their smallest possible state of motion. Success in achieving that goal heralds a new generation of quantum experiments.” Markus Aspelmeyer, “Quantum mechanics: The surf is up,” News … Continue reading →

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Google Books Team introduces “culturomics” in Science Magazine

Posted on December 16, 2010 by

“Google Books has digitized over fifteen million books: over 11% of all the books ever published (about 129 million book editions). The Google Books collection contains over five billion pages and two trillion words, with books dating back to as early as 1473 … Continue reading →

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Quantum entanglement in a macroscopic system at high temperatures

Posted on December 8, 2010 by

“Quantum entanglement has been observed at low temperatures in both microscopic and macroscopic systems. It now seems that the effect can also occur at high temperatures if the systems are not in thermal equilibrium.” The spanish scientist Fernando Galve and … Continue reading →

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Moss, Scott, Zibin, “No evidence for anomalously low variance circles on the sky”

Posted on December 7, 2010 by

Gurzadyan & Penrose claim to have found directions on the sky centred on which are circles of anomalously low variance in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). An independent analysis has confirmed such a result. However, properly simulated Gaussian CMB data contain just the … Continue reading →

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Quantum computers protected by space-time cloaking devices

Posted on November 16, 2010 by

Quantum computers are very fragile devices, the accidental observation of any quantum property can disrupt calculations before they have been completed. ¿Could a quantum computer be hidden inside a protecting spatiotemporal cloaking device? Such is the proposal of Ortwin Hess, a researcher … Continue reading →

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