New Scientist: Last year, it looked as though Fermilab’s Tevatron collider would continue to hunt for the Higgs boson until 2014. An advisory panel had recommended the three-year extension in the wake of delays at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Yesterday, however, the US Department of Energy, which funds the Tevatron, announced that the extension would be cancelled. Unless new funding can be found, the Tevatron will cease operations later this year.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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