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Finding it would be an enormous scientific breakthrough for the physics world and would help explain why different particles have different masses

That is because the particle itself is thought to give mass to other particles

any firm discovery will have to wait until next year

Since the 1980s, scientists have been synthesizing newer allotropes, including carbon nanotubes, graphene, and fullerenes, all of which have had a significant scientific and technological impact.

scientists have been investigating a wide variety of new – and sometimes elusive – carbon allotropes

scientists also noted that T-carbon could have astronomical implications as a potential component of interstellar dust and carbon exoplanets

very visible supernova event. Hosted in the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51),

researchers at Ohio State University, a galaxy survey may have captured evidence of a “stellar signal” just before it went supernova

OSU team was undertaking a survey of 25 galaxies for stars that changed their magnitude in usual ways

The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland has generated a lot of news of late, e.g. the announcement that a team had found what it believes to be a particle that traveled faster than he speed of light, an actual new particle, and of course the seemingly never-ending storyline associated with the hopeful discovery of the elusive Higgs Boson, now a physicist not associated with the project, has built a scale model replica of the ATLAS experiment; a particle detector that will likely serve as ground zero should the so-called “god particle” ever be observed.

a physicist with the Niels Bohr Institute took almost thirty five hours to build and cost two thousand Euros (paid for by the high energy physics group at the university). The point of building the replica, he says, is to incite interest in physics. Plus, no doubt, it was sort of fun.

The real ATLAS project is 44 meters long and 22 meters wide and weighs 7000 tonnes. Mehlhase’s model, at approximately 1:50 scale is approximately 1 meter long by a half meter wide. And while the real deal has millions of parts, the model has 9500 pieces, mostly LEGO blocks.

11 January 2012

The new three planet system hosts planets that are all smaller than Earth. Image: NASA/JPL Caltech.

eight out of ten stars in the Galaxy are red dwarfs