Speculations high on new particle discovery with LHC and other top stories.

• Speculations high on new particle discovery with LHC

  

  Researchers at CERN are preparing to unveil the data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), after hiatus of three years of the confirmation of the existence of the Higgs Boson. The researchers said that the probability of finding something new is highest. Scientists have been sifting through the debris from the smash-up of two beams of protons, so as to have hint of previously undiscovered particles. Last year, scientists were able to detect more photon particles than expected. According to the..

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• Navy grants $750000 to develop bomb-sniffing locusts

  

  A locust with sensors implanted in its brain to decode neural activity. (Courtesy of Baranidharan Raman/Washington University in St. Louis) Locusts came to fame as agents of destruction during the eighth plague of Egypt in the Bible, but some researchers envision a new occupation for the humble insects: cyborg bomb detectors. Yes, you read that correctly. The Office of Naval Research has given Washington University in St. Louis associate biomedical engineering professor Baranidharan Raman a..

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• New Horizons extended mission approved; Sputnik Planum nitrogen ice shows intricate patterns

  

  New Horizons extended mission approved; Sputnik Planum nitrogen ice shows intricate patterns Laurel Kornfeld July 6th, 2016 Artist’s impression of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Pluto-like object in the distant Kuiper Belt. Image Credit: NASA/JHU-APL/SwRI/Alex Parker NASA has officially given the green light to the mission extension of their New Horizons spacecraft – a visit to the small Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) known as 2014 MU69, located close to a billion miles beyond Pluto...

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• Scientists blame ocean chain reaction for Antarctic ice spread

  

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• Researchers find 14-foot great white off Cape Cod

  

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• Living the Kazakh life: The last days of astronauts before flying into space

  

  Bill Ingalls/NASA The Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft is raised vertical after it was rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Monday, July 4. This gallery highlights life for the astronauts before launch. Bill Ingalls/NASA The Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft is raised vertical after it was rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Monday, July 4. This gallery highlights life for the astronauts before launch. Stephanie Stoll/NASA At the Ga..

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• Why are these microbes playing 'Pac-Man'?

  

  For a team of Norwegian researchers, a tiny labyrinth modeled on the 1980s arcade game “Pac-Man” provides the ideal environment to study a real-life cat and mouse game involving microorganisms.In a video produced by the researchers at the University College of Southeast Norway, single-celled euglena and ciliates take on the role of Pac-Man as they are chased through a liquid-filled, 3D maze by multi-celled rotifers, much like the original game’s hungry ghosts.The researchers say recreating a ti..

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