The free-to-read Physics World Big Science Briefing 2024 is out now
WEB17 hours ago · 2024 is out now. Over the past decades, “ big science ” has become bigger than ever be it planning larger particle colliders, fusion tokamaks or space observatories. That development is reflected in the growth of the Big Science Business Forum (BSBF), which has been going from strength to strength following its first meeting in 2018 in ...
Black hole’s jets are so huge that they may shake up cosmology
WEB1 day ago · Spanning 23 million light years, or 220 Milky Way galaxies, a set of giant, newly discovered black hole jets known as Porphyrion may change our understanding of black holes and the structure of ...
CERN experiment unlocks new insights into the W boson - Big Think
WEB1 day ago · In March of 2023, the ATLAS experiment measured the mass of the W boson with a precision of 0.02%; however, today’s measurement by the CMS experiment surpasses that precision and achieved 0.01% ...
Earth will soon pick up a new 'mini-moon' but it won't be here for …
WEB1 day ago · 2022 NX1 is another small near-Earth asteroid that was temporarily captured as a mini-moon by Earth's gravity from June 11 to 3 July, 2022. At the time, astronomers suspected it might have been an ...
Elon Musk's Starlink satellites 'blocking' view of the universe - BBC
WEB1 day ago · Getty Images. Starlink satellites are usually easily seen by the naked eye in the night sky. Radio waves from Elon Musk’s growing network of satellites are blocking scientists’ ability to peer ...
The Ten Most Significant Science Stories of 2023 | Smithsonian
WEBDec 20, 2023 · In 2023, a whirlwind of science headlines swept across our screens, from the find that our ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago to the discovery of a brilliant green comet in the sky.
Big science is hard but worth it | Science - AAAS
WEBApr 24, 2015 · Big science is hard. It is the throw-deep approach that pushes technology to the edge to achieve stunning breakthroughs that dramatically extend the frontiers of science, while inspiring the next generation of scientists …
Seven next big things in science which will change our world
WEBAug 18, 2022 · The next big things in science. August 18, 2022. By Cosmos. Science is churning through an extraordinary amount of hypotheses, ideas, laboratory experiments, clinical and field trials; surveys,...
Visualizing big science projects | Nature Reviews Physics
WEBSep 28, 2021 · We compare the evolving geospatial and topical impact of big science projects in physics, astronomy and biomedical sciences.
The rise and rise of ‘new big science’ - Physics World
WEBApr 9, 2019 · In this latest phase change, which historians are calling “new big science”, large facilities at ORNL and other labs are increasingly supporting a “research ecology”, consisting of relatively small instruments, experiments and collaborations.