#Particle

Author: Lewin Day / Source: Hackaday It’s a problem every maker faces at one time or other – how to organise the ever-growing mass of components in the workshop. Some give up and just live with box upon box of disordered parts. That wasn’t good enough for [Inventor22], though – who created

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Grains of dust from the edge of the solar system could be finding their way to Earth. And NASA may already have a handful of the debris, researchers report. With an estimated 40,000 tons of space dust settling in Earth’s

Author: Brandon Satrom / Source: Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers Make: Live on Friday March 22, 5pm ET/2pm PT on Youtube or Facebook. Hacking a toy is a fun way to see how real-world electronics are designed and built, and to tinker freely without ruining expensive gear. And cheap

Author: Maria Temming / Source: Science News Physicists awaiting approval to build the world’s first “Higgs factory” will have to wait a while longer. Japan had been expected to decide by March 7 whether it would host the International Linear Collider — a particle smasher that would produce

Author: Emily Conover / Source: Science News If particle physicists get their way, new accelerators could one day scrutinize the most tantalizing subatomic particle in physics — the Higgs boson. Six years after the particle’s discovery at the Large Hadron Collider, scientists are planning