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Higgs Gossip: Observation of a γγ resonance at a mass…

By S.C. Kavassalis
Posted: April 22, 2011

Category: Local News | Tagged 115 GeV, ATLAS, CERN, gossip, Higgs, hype | 22 Comments

What’s been going on in the universe

By S.C. Kavassalis
Posted: April 11, 2011

Category: This Week In The Universe | Tagged (2+1), ALICE, antimatter, BF models, CERN, chern-simons theory, dark matter, EDELWEISS, Einstein@Home, Fermi bubble, gamma ray, gravity waves, group field theory, Higgs, Hořava-Gravity, hubble constant, LHC, LISA, low dimension, MOND, pioneer anomaly, supersymmetry, SUSY, Tevatron, top quark, topological QFT, WIMPs | 12 Comments

It’s Official: The LHC will run through 2012

By S.C. Kavassalis
Posted: January 31, 2011

Category: Local News | Tagged CERN, LHC | 2 Comments

This Week in the Universe: January 18th – January 24th

By S.C. Kavassalis
Posted: January 25, 2011

Category: This Week In The Universe | Tagged 1008.1911, 1101.3216, 1101.3492, analogue, CERN, CMS, Ed Witten, Fred Van Oystaeyen, Hawking radiation, knots, LHC, noncommutative, noncommutative space, noncommutative spaces, noncommutative spacetimes, SUSY | 5 Comments

This Week in the Universe: December 14th – December 20th

By S.C. Kavassalis
Posted: December 20, 2010

Category: This Week In The Universe | Tagged 1001.3686, 1009.2445, 1012.1995, 1012.3375, CERN, eternal inflation, First Observational Tests of Eternal Inflation, Gravity quantized, LHC, loop quantum gravity, micro black holes, mini black holes, multiverse, pioneer anomaly, Search for Microscopic Black Hole Signatures at the Large Hadron Collider, string theory, The Pioneer Anomaly | Leave a comment

This “Week” in the Universe: November 30th – December 13th

By S.C. Kavassalis
Posted: December 13, 2010

Category: This Week In The Universe | Tagged 2d solutions, Abhay Ashtekar, black holes, CERN, Christmas, circles in the sky, CMB, Fethi M. Ramazanoğlu, Frans Pretorius, galaxyzoo, GravityGeek, GREAT10, Gurzadyan, Ion Run, LHC, pattern matching, Penrose, Roger Penrose, The Milky Way Project, V.G. Gurzadyan | 5 Comments

This Week in the Universe: November 23rd – November 29th

By S.C. Kavassalis
Posted: November 30, 2010

Category: This Week In The Universe | Tagged ALICE, ATLAS, baryonic matter, Bianchi, Bin-Nun, Black Hole Entropy, black holes, Buzzi, CERN, CMS, dark energy, dark matter, Davoudiasl, duality, early universe, Eugenio Bianchi, experiment, geometry, heavy ions, lead, LHC, Loop Gravity, Lucchesi, Marinoni, matter, metric, Morrissey, non-baryonic matter, Peron, polymer physics, precession, Sigurdson, Tulin | Leave a comment

This Week in the Universe: November 2nd – November 8th

By S.C. Kavassalis
Posted: November 9, 2010

Category: This Week In The Universe | Tagged ALICE, astrophysics, asymptotic freedom, ATLAS, CERN, CMS, CP-violation, fine-structure constant, galaxy formation, gamma rays, gravitational lens, Higgs, ions, lead, lensing, leptons, LHC, MiniBooNE, protons, sterile neutrino, symmetry | 3 Comments

This Week in the Universe: October 26th – November 1st

By S.C. Kavassalis
Posted: November 2, 2010

Category: This Week In The Universe | Tagged (A)dS-gauge theory, ANITA, ATLAS, CERN, gauge gravity, Hubble, LHC, NASA, neutrino, neutrinos, stars, tau, top quark, W-boson | 1 Comment