Science: The European Strategy Group for Particle Physics, which met in Brussels last month, has drafted its plan for promoting the growth of the field. Besides supporting the work being done at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the report recommends that Europe contribute to other large projects, including the International Linear Collider and the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE), which may be hosted by other nations, among them the US and Japan. The US, in particular, could benefit from such monetary support because of the recent budgetary constraints being imposed by the Department of Energy on the proposal to build the LBNE at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.
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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