RIP Peter Higgs, who laid foundation for the Higgs boson in the 1960s
Higgs shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with François Englert. Enlarge / A visibly emotional Peter Higgs was present when CERN announced Higgs boson discovery in July 2012. (credit: University of Edinburgh ) Peter.....»»
Home Assistant’s new foundation focused on “privacy, choice, and sustainability”
Can a non-profit foundation get Home Assistant to the point of Home Depot boxes? Enlarge (credit: Open Home Foundation) Home Assistant, until recently, has been a wide-ranging and hard-to-define project. The open smart h.....»»
Elon Musk apologizes after Tesla layoffs for miscalculated severance
Tesla's CEO, who is facing lawsuits over severance from former Twitter employees, admitted that payouts to some workers being laid off were too low......»»
The 2024 Mercedes E 350 4Matic is the thriftiest luxury workhorse
We test out the refreshed Mercedes midsize sedan. Enlarge / The Mercedes-Benz E-Class is the brand's workhorse, covering millions of km a year ferrying German taxi passengers around. (credit: Peter Nelson) Mercedes-Benz'.....»»
AMD’s next-gen CPUs are much closer than we thought
A series of motherboard updates have laid the foundation for AMD's Zen 5 CPUs, suggesting a launch is right around the corner......»»
New open-source project takeover attacks spotted, stymied
The OpenJS Foundation has headed off a “credible takeover attempt” similar to the one that resulted in a backdoor getting included in the open-source XZ Utils package by someone who called themselves “Jia Tan”. This malicious.....»»
CMS collaboration releases Higgs boson discovery data to the public
As part of its continued commitment to making its science fully open, the CMS collaboration has just publicly released the combination of CMS measurements that contributed to establishing the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012......»»
Study sheds light on 11th-century Arab-Muslim optical scientist whose work laid foundation for modern-day physics
Scientists from the University of Sharjah and the Warburg Institute are poring over the writings of an 11th-century Arab-Muslim polymath to demonstrate their impact on the development of optical sciences and how they have fundamentally transformed th.....»»
Australia"s secret history of Aboriginal population control in the 1960s
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article may contain images of deceased people. It contains mentions of the Stolen Generations, and policies using outdated and potentially offensive terminology when referring to First Na.....»»
ATLAS provides first measurement of the W-boson width at the LHC
The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 slotted in the final missing piece of the Standard Model puzzle. Yet, it left lingering questions. What lies beyond this framework? Where are the new phenomena that would solve the universe's remaining mysteri.....»»
The urban-rural death divide is getting alarmingly wider for working-age Americans
The cause is unclear, but poverty and worsening health care access are likely factors. Enlarge (credit: Getty | Spencer Platt) In the 1960s and 1970s, people who lived in rural America fared a little better than their ur.....»»
Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed the existence of the "God particle," dies at 94
Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called "God particle" that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh said Tuesday......»»
Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the "God particle," has died at 94
Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called "God particle" that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh said Tuesday......»»
Peter Higgs: physicist who predicted "God particle"
Nobel laureate Peter Higgs gave his name to one of the great scientific discoveries of the last century, earning a place alongside Albert Einstein and Max Planck in physics textbooks......»»
Microsoft patches two actively exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-29988, CVE-2024-26234)
On this April 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has fixed a record 147 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, including CVE-2024-29988, a vulnerability that Microsoft hasn’t marked as exploited, but Peter Girnus, senior threat researcher with Trend Micro.....»»
Microsoft patches two actively exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-29988, CVE-2024-26234)
On this April 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has fixed a record 147 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, including CVE-2024-29988, a vulnerability that Microsoft hasn’t marked as exploited, but Peter Girnus, senior threat researcher with Trend Micro.....»»
Microsoft patches two actively exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-29988, CVE-2024-26234)
On this April 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has fixed a record 147 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, including CVE-2024-29988, a vulnerability that Microsoft hasn’t marked as exploited, but Peter Girnus, senior threat researcher with Trend Micro.....»»
Microsoft patches two actively exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-29988, CVE-2024-26234)
On this April 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has fixed a record 147 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, including CVE-2024-29988, a vulnerability that Microsoft hasn’t marked as exploited, but Peter Girnus, senior threat researcher with Trend Micro.....»»
RIP Peter Higgs, who laid foundation for the Higgs boson in the 1960s
Higgs shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with François Englert. Enlarge / A visibly emotional Peter Higgs was present when CERN announced Higgs boson discovery in July 2012. (credit: University of Edinburgh ) Peter.....»»
Nukes in space: A bad idea in the 1960s, an even worse one now
The US and Japan are sponsoring a resolution for debate by the United Nations security council which—if passed—will reaffirm international commitments to the 1967 outer space treaty (OST) forbidding the deployment and use of nuclear weapons in sp.....»»
Scientists investigate information propagation in interacting bosonic systems
A new study by scientists from Japan explores the propagation of quantum information within interacting boson systems like Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), revealing the potential for accelerated transmission unlike previously thought......»»