Wednesday Sep 5th, 2012
Is the particle recently discovered at CERN’s LHC the Higgs boson?
By Jim Baggott
Experimental physicists are by nature very cautious people, often reluctant to speculate beyond the boundaries defined by the evidence at hand. Although the Higgs mechanism is responsible for the acquisition of mass, the theory does not give a precise prediction for the mass of the Higgs boson itself. read more »
Monday Apr 15th, 2013
Henry Moseley and a tale of seven elements
Eric Scerri on X-rays and the periodic table
Monday Apr 8th, 2013
Sherlock Holmes knew chemistry
James F. O’Brien on the science of Arthur Conan Doyle’s hero
Saturday Mar 30th, 2013
Free will and quantum conspiracy
Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner on scientific theories and free will
