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01 result from AMS-02 on 03/04 at 05 pm
Do you know which number would be the next one? Six weeks ago, Sam Ting claimed that not too uninteresting results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrome…
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NASA's collider
NASA has constructed a collider with the center-of-mass energy well above 10 30 GeV. The collision took place during the Independence Day. Unfortun…
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Kathryn Gray (10) finds her supernova
Just an amusing video: Prof Kathryn Aurora Gray of Fredericton NB, Canada, discovered a supernova on Sunday. The Canadian Royal Astronomical Society …
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Monstrous supernova & Eta Carinae
Figure 1 : Picture via FoxNews (click). NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory and terrestrial telescopes have detected the king of all supernovae, SN2…
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Did 12 astronauts cause global warming by 2 °C on the Moon?
Or does an organized movement of brain-dead liars calling themselves "journalists" spread far-reaching cosmic superstitions about a mundane…
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Physics Nobel prize: Mather, Smoot, and CMB
The folks in Scandinavia have just announced that the 2006 physics Nobel prize goes to John Mather (NASA), George Smoot (University of California at …
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A simple explanation behind AMS' electron+positron flux power law?
Aside from tweets about the latest, not so interesting, and inconclusive Planck paper on the dust and polarized CMB, Francis Emulenews Villatoro tw…
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Alan Guth & seesaw
Alan Guth has a big-picture preprint Why inflation arguing that inflation is good but it can't be the whole story, and putting everything in the …
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Light Dirac RH sneutrinos seen by CDMS and others?
What is dark matter made of? We almost know that its mass should be dominated by a new light particle species that is heavy enough so that it moves r…
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A proof of Intelligent Design?
I hope that the title isn't too provocative. ;-) Bill Z. has brought my attention to a December 2012 nuclear physics paper that was updated 3 day…
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Martin Rees becomes an LHC alarmist, publishes a book
These days, the LHC has celebrated its 10th birthday. Almost no one has celebrated because, despite the Higgs boson discovery, there is a widespread …
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MOND isn't beating dark matter
The BBC application on my iPod Touch led me to the following article: Dark matter theory challenged by gassy galaxies result This stuff is based on a…
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LUX dark matter event: October 30th
The broadcast starts at 4 pm Prague Winter Time. More info about the event. TRF doesn't say whether I endorse Mt Rushmore in SD; see Penn and T…
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America, Australia: total lunar eclipse
Too late, the theater is over! It should be the most spectacular one in years... In Australia, watch it Tuesday night. In the Western portions of the…
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Rumors of a LIGO discovery resurface
The BBC has followed Physics World and Starts-with-a-bang and presented its expectations for science events in the year \[ 4\times 7 \times 8 \tim…
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Nature, NYT report the demise of Lorentz-violating theories
In August 2009, we discussed the preprint by the GBM/LAT collaborations working for Fermi, formerly known as GLAST: Fermi kills all Lorentz violating…
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Baryon number as R-symmetry, baryogenesis, Dirac gauginos
As in many other cases, the most exciting hep-ph paper today is the first one A Supersymmetric Theory of Baryogenesis and Sterile Sneutrino Dark Matt…
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