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The Higgs Boson is partial to heavy metal apparently.

Higgs Boson Sonification The sound of the Higgs discovery: two plots from the CMS experiment shown during the 4.07.2012 seminar at CERN announcing the discovery of a higgs(-like) bos...

Some exciting news from CERN.

Coming Soon: Heroes of the Higgs The documentary “Particle Fever” tracks the ultimately successful search at CERN for a linchpin of modern theories about the universe.

Good hair day from Argonne National Laboratory!

Good hair day: New technique grows tiny 'hairy' materials at the microscale

(Nanowerk News) Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory attacked a tangled problem by developing a new technique to grow tiny “hairy” materials that assemble themselves at the microscale (see paper in Nature Communications: "Self-assembled tunable networks of sticky colloidal particles").
The key ingredient is epoxy, which is added to a mixture of hardener and solvent inside an electric cell. Then the scientists run an alternating current through the cell and watch long, twisting fibers spring up. It looks like the way Chia Pets grow in commercials.
little forests at the microscal
Argonne materials scientists announced a new technique to grow these little forests at the microscale (the scale shows 100 micrometers, which is about the diameter of a single human hair). (Image by Alexey Snezhko and Igor Aronson)
“The process is very simple, the materials are cheap and available and they can grow on almost every surface we’ve tried,” said Argonne physicist Igor Aronson, who co-authored the study.
By tweaking the process, the team can grow many different shapes: short forests of dense straight hairs, long branching strands or “mushrooms” with tiny pearls at the tips. Interestingly, though the structures can be permanent, the process is also instantly reversible.
“This is a completely new kind of structure,” said Argonne physicist Alexey Snezhko, also a co-author. “With this method, you can support more complex structures that have unique properties.”
Scientists are very interested in materials with tiny fibers for technologies like batteries, photovoltaic cells or sensors. For one, “hairy” materials offer up a lot of surface area. Many chemical reactions depend on two surfaces making contact with one another, so a structure that exposes a lot of surface area will speed the process along. (For example, grinding coffee beans gives the coffee more flavor than soaking whole beans in water.) Micro-size hairs can also make a surface that repels water, called superhydrophobic, or dust.
The tiny-fiber structure is so useful that it’s evolved several times in nature, Aronson pointed out. For example, blood vessels are lined with a layer of similar tiny protein “hairs,” thought to help reduce wear and tear by blood cells and bacterial infections, among other properties.
Currently, the primary methods of creating interesting shapes at small scales is lithography, a type of “printing” where researchers lay a pattern on the material and the rest of it is melted or etched away. But it’s hard to make very complex structures with this method; it’s hard to control; and the results aren’t always uniform.
“These polymers assemble themselves,” Snezhko explained, “which is much easier and less labor-intensive than lithography.”
In one experiment the researchers used a process called atomic layer deposition that deposits a molecule-thick layer of material over the entire hairy structure, like a fresh blanket of snow, to add a layer of semiconductor material. Semiconductors are essential ingredients in many technologies, such as solar cells and electronics.
This provided proof of concept that the polymer could be incorporated into semiconductor-based renewable energy technologies. It also proved that it could survive high temperatures, up to 150°C, an essential property for many manufacturing processes.
Right now the structures are about a single micron thick—you could stack 100 of them to reach the width of a sheet of paper. Aronson and Snezhko said their next goal is to get them even smaller, to the nanoscale.

Source: Argonne National Laboratory

Read more: Good hair day: New technique grows tiny 'hairy' materials at the microscale http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology_news/newsid=34248.php
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More fascinating discoveries taking place at CERN…

Antimatter experiment produces first beam of antihydrogen http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2014/01/antimatter-experiment-produces-first-beam-antihydrogen

Image shows the ASACUSA experimental apparatus http://home.web.cern.ch/about/experiments/asacusa. Image credit Yasunori, Yamakazi © CERN - for terms of use see http://cern.ch/copyright

NASA Center Renamed in Honor of Neil A. Armstrong This photograph shows Neil Armstrong next to the X-15 rocket-powered aircraft after a research flight. President Barack Obama has signed HR 667, the congressional resolution that redesignates NASA's Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center as the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center, into law. The…

Lookin' good, Planet Earth!

A rare photo.

This photo shows the Earth from a perspective that hasn’t been seen in 40 years.

It was taken by the Chinese Chang’e-3 Lunar Lander on Christmas Day, 2013. This is the first photo of the Earth from the Moon’s surface since the days of the Apollo spacecraft.

The Yutu rover should have just entered sunlight and lunar daytime a few days ago and a variety of new photos were just released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to go along with this shot.

-JBB

Image credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences
http://io9.com/chinas-moon-rover-snaps-a-view-of-earth-we-havent-see-1499679375

Lego's plus Cern=Awesome!

Gorillas in the midst of the CERN Computing Centre …

… as well as aliens, surfers and more. How many hidden LEGO figures can you find in the CERN Computing Centre Google Maps Streetview: http://goo.gl/maps/Zuo8x?

Enter our scavenger hunt between now and the end of January: http://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2013/52/News%20Articles/1637433

Why are the characters there? Read this Symmetry magazine article to find out: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/december-2013/cerns-lego-scavenger-hunt

If you’re a high-school student, check out our “beam line for schools” competition too: http://cern.ch/bl4s.

Image © CERN - for terms of use see http://cern.ch/copyright

Nicely done, China!

CHINA HAS LANDED ON THE MOON

On Saturday 14 December 2013 at 1311 GMT, China’s first Moon lander, Chang’e 3, and its rover touched down on the lunar surface. China is the third nation to make a soft landing on the Moon, after the United States and the former Soviet Union. This is the first such landing in 37 years; the last one was performed by the Soviet Union in 1976.

The ‘Jade Rabbit’ rover, weighing 140 kilogrammes, separated from the larger landing vehicle on Sunday 15 December, about seven hours after the unmanned Chang'e 3 space probe touched down on an Earth-facing part of the Moon. The descent from lunar orbit to the moon's surface took about 12 minutes. Soon after the landing, Chang'e 3 deployed its solar arrays so that it could begin generating power for its mission.

The Jade Rabbit has already left deep traces on the lunar soil. The rover will now begin its survey of the Moon’s geological structure and surface, and will look for natural resources for three months. Meanwhile, the lander will carry out scientific explorations at its landing site for a year.

The mission launched from southwest China on December 2, 2013, on a Long March-3B carrier rocket. The mission itself is named after a Chinese goddess of the Moon while the ‘Yutu’ rover (Jade Rabbit) is named for the goddess’ pet.

This mission is part of a wider-reaching Chinese space programme, which aims to eventually put a Chinese astronaut on the Moon. China sent its first male astronaut into space in 2003 and their first woman into space 16 June 2012. The country has successfully deployed two lunar missions that orbited the moon.

China launched a Mars-exploration space probe on 8 November 2011; unfortunately the burns needed to expel the probe from Earth’s orbit were not performed and the probe was declared lost. This has not deterred the people behind the China space programme however and there are plans for an uncrewed mission to Mars within the next twenty years. China plans to open a space station around 2020 and send an astronaut to the Moon after that.

-TEL

http://phys.org/news/2013-12-china-successfully-soft-lands-probe-moon.html
http://phys.org/news/2013-12-china-moon-rover-lunar-soil.html
http://news.discovery.com/space/china-lands-rover-on-the-moon-131214.htm =fbsci1

The image shows Moon rover Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, driving away from Chang'e 3 lander
Image: CNSA / BACC

First image from the lunar surface: http://on.fb.me/1kLYFEB

Don't miss the Englert and Higgs this Sunday, webcast from 9.00 a.m.-10.20 a.m. (CET) via http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2013/englert-lecture.html and http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2013/higgs-lecture.html Nobelprize.org

Image shows CERN's Director-General Rolf Heuer (left) with François Englert (centre) and Peter Higgs (right) during the 4 July 2012 Higgs boson announcement in CERN's Main Auditorium © CERN - for terms of use see http://cern.ch/copyright

Two legends, side by side!

Higgs and Hawking visit CERN, in London.

Read more:

"The Large Hadron Collider on tour" – Update on the exhibition
http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2013/11/large-hadron-collider-tour

"Visiting CERN in London" – Quantum Diaries blog by ATLAS Experiment at CERN physicist Pauline Gagnon http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2013/11/25/visiting-cern-in-london/

"Collider" – Science Museum blog http://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/insight/category/lhc-exhibition/

This image, taken on 12 November, shows Peter Higgs and Stephen Hawking in front of a CMS backdrop as they visit the "Collider" exhibition at London's Science Museum (Image courtesy of the Science Museum)

Congratulations, Slava Rychkov!

CERN theorist wins $100,000 New Horizons prize | CERN CERN theorist Slava Rychkov got an unexpected phone call on the way home from the climbing gym last week. A member of Russian billionaire Yuri Milner's Fundamental Physics Prize committee called to inform Rychkov that he had won the $100,000 New Horizons prize for promising junior researchers in fun...

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Fascinating!!

A planet brimming with data: International Science Grid This Week reports from European Space Agency about Helix Nebula - the Science Cloud and the challenges of big data http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2013/07/helix-nebula-and-view-space

Image courtesy of ESA http://spaceinimages.esa.int/Images/2013/06/Perfect_sky

CERN

From penguins to pears: CERN Courier June issue out now http://cerncourier.com/cws/latest/cern (CERN-based copy of the digital edition is available via: http://cds.cern.ch/record/1550751)

Image © CERN - for terms of use see http://cerncourier.com/cws/copyright

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Did you know... CERN is preparing to launch it's first TEDx on May 3rd? Follow the links below for more information!

CERN to host its first TEDx on 3 May 2013: http://press.web.cern.ch/press-releases/2013/04/cern-host-its-first-tedx

Find out more about TEDxCERN and the webcast via:
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