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CERN’s LHC discovers new class of particles called Pentaquarks

Scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have discovered a new class of exotic subatomic particles called the Pentaquarks. The discovery was made by the scientist’s after watching...

July 15, 2015

Refractive Index for some Common Materials

Refractive index is a fundamental optical property of materials, and it plays a crucial role in many applications, including lens design, fiber optics, and spectroscopy. It measures the...

May 21, 2013

Specific Absorption Rate (SAR)

Specific absorption rate is the measure of the rate at which energy is absorbed by the body when exposed to a radio frequency (RF) in electromagnetic field. The term is not restricted to the...

September 7, 2012

Fundamental Physics Prize to Nine physicists

Fundamental Physics Prize has been given to Nine Physicist from across the globe. The prizes were given to the physicists for their outstanding contribution to the field of...

August 3, 2012

CERN physicists discover the GOD Particle

In the field of Physics a quantum jump was made as the scientists at the Switzerland’s CERN research centre near Geneva discovered a sub-atomic particle ‘Higgs boson’, prevalently...

July 6, 2012

Indian Scientist Rao Papineni gets US Patent for Cancer Treatment

In a breakthrough innovation Rao Papineni, the nanotechnology scientist, in collaboration with his colleagues invented a cancer treatment system in which a nano-particle acts as a carrier of...

July 2, 2012

Shouryya Ray: 16-year-old Indian-origin student solves 350-year old Mathematics Problem

Shouryya Ray, 16-year-old, Indian-origin student from Germany has solved a 350-year old mathematics problem. The mathematics problems had puzzled mathematicians around the world for more than 350 years....

June 2, 2012

Neutrinos: Faster than Light? It’s proved

It has been generally assumed that neutrinos travel at the speed of light. According to the theory of relativity, if neutrinos are massless, they must travel at the...

November 30, 2011

Thin band of Anti-protons covers Earth- Study

Recently, a study was published in the ‘Astrophysical Journal Letters’, which has confirmed the theoretical work that predicted the Earth’s magnetic field could trap antimatter. A team of...

October 30, 2011

What is CERN in LHC?

CERN is the world’s largest particle physics laboratory which is situated in the north West suburbs of Geneva on the Franco Swiss Border.It was established in 1954 and...

January 17, 2010

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