Daily Archives: February 19, 2012

‘Interesting’ Higgs Boson Result to be Announced

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Deskarati

It may not be the long-awaited news about a Higgs boson discovery, but an “interesting” announcement will soon come from scientists analyzing data from the Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermilab, near Batavia, Ill. Wait a minute, isn’t the Tevatron in semi-retirement? … Continue reading →

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Alan Turing’s 1950s tiger stripe theory proved

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Deskarati

Researchers from King’s College London have provided the first experimental evidence confirming a great British mathematician’s theory of how biological patterns such as tiger stripes or leopard spots are formed. The study, funded by the Medical Research Council and to be … Continue reading →

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Missing dark matter located

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Deskarati

Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) and Nagoya University used large-scale computer simulations and recent observational data of gravitational lensing to reveal how dark matter is distributed around galaxies. The … Continue reading →

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