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Monday, March 15, 12:00 pm EDT Artist and consultant Tiffany Jana ( Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions) discusses their work, a practical handbook that helps individuals and organizations recognize and prevent microaggressions so that all employees and members can feel a sense of belonging. In conversation with Kaki Dimock. Free, with registration. Ethan Porter and John Mark Hansen:”The Consumer Citizen”  Monday, March 15, 6:00 pm EDT Ethan Por...

October 29, 2017 What better way to say farewell than with a slew of costume pictures from this years (coming) Halloween? Happy Halloween 2017! From Ethan Siegel and Starts With A Bang. Keep looking to the Universe. And well have a lifetime of wonderful things to still explore. Goodbye, Scienceblogs,… October 28, 2017 "Delay is the deadliest form of denial." -C. Northcote Parkinson Every massless particle and wave travels at the speed of light when it moves through a vacuum. Over a distan...

Scientists measure the smallest gravitational field yet The experiment showed Newtons law of gravity holds true even between tiny masses measuring just 90 milligrams. Credit: Tobias Westphal, University of Vienna. Physicists at the University of Vienna have managed to measure the gravitational field between two tiny gold spheres with a radius of merely 1 millimeter. In doing so, they’ve effectively measured gravity over the smallest distance to date and probed the nature of gravity at one o...

W boson spotted in Antarctica IceCube observatory spots elementary particle needle in a galactic haystack. The IceCube Observatory in Antarctica. Credit: Erik Beiser / IceCube / NSF On 6 December 2016, a high-energy particle hurtled from outer space and through an Antarctic ice sheet, where it slammed into an electron at nearly the speed of light. The enormously energetic collision created a completely different particle, which rapidly decayed into a cascade of others. This event might have gon...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A visualization of the Glashow event recorded by the IceCube detector. Each colored circle shows an IceCube sensor that was triggered by the event; red circles indicate sensors triggered earlier... view more  Credit: IceCube Collaboration The idea was so far-fetched it seemed like science fiction: create an observatory out of a one cubic kilometer block of ice in Antarctica to track ghostly particles called neutrinos that pass through the Earth. But speaking to Benedick...

A smashing discovery Article by Tracey Bryant, adapted from IceCube collaboration Photos courtesy of Frank Schroeder and the IceCube Collaboration March 10, 2021 IceCube detector helps prove 60-year-old theory An electron antineutrino races to Earth from outer space at nearly the speed of light, carrying 6.3 petaelectronvolts (PeV) of energy. Deep in the ice sheet at the South Pole, this high-energy particle smashes into an electron and prod...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A visualization of the Glashow event recorded by the IceCube detector. Each colored circle shows an IceCube sensor that was triggered by the event; red circles indicate sensors triggered earlier... view more  Credit: IceCube Collaboration On December 6, 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino hurtled to Earth from outer space at close to the speed of light carrying 6.3 petaelectronvolts (PeV) of energy. Deep inside the ice sheet at the South Pole, i...

LANL: Experiment Boosts Evidence For Sterile Neutrinos - 6:19 am The neutrino detector at Fermilab, MiniBooNE, has confirmed a 1990s Los Alamos National Laboratory experiment that showed the existence of sterile neutrinos. Courtesy/LANL LANL News: Analysis of results from an experiment called MiniBooNE at Fermilab has provided yet more evidence that particles called “sterile neutrinos” could indeed exist, supporting results from a 1990s Los Alamos National Laboratory e...

IceCube detection of high-energy particle proves 60-year-old physics theory The electron antineutrino that created the Glashow resonance event traveled quite a distance before reaching IceCube. This graphic shows its journey; the blue dotted line is the antineutrino’s path. IceCube Collaboration On Dec. 8, 2016, a high-energy particle hurtled to Earth from outer space at close to the speed of light. The particle, an electron antineutrino, smashed into an electron deep inside the ice sheet at ...

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - a telescope that detects elusive, nearly massless subatomic particles called neutrinos using thousands of sensors...