Archives for November 2011

THE NEW PHYSICS?  ATOM SMASHER GETS ANTIMATTER SURPRISE: The world’s largest atom smasher, designed as a portal to a new view of physics, has produced its first peek at the unexpected: bits of matter that don’t mirror the behavior of their antimatter counterparts. The discovery, if confirmed, could rewrite the known laws of particle physics […]

In carefully negotiated language worked out among scientists from many countries, a new report on the effects of a warming climate on the world’s weather by the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that much of the world is already seeing more weather “extremes” – stronger hurricanes and more intense heat waves – […]

GHOST ALPS OF ANTARCTICA REVEAL SECRET: For more than half a century, geologists have wrangled over the origins of an astonishing range of mountains found beneath ice up to three kilometers (two miles) thick in East Antarctica. Named after the Soviet geophysicist who detected them in 1958 during the first International Polar Year exploration, the […]

NEW YORK MUST PREPARE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE NOW: Devastating floods like those caused in upstate New York by the remnants of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee are among the climate change effects predicted in a new report written by 50 scientists and released Wednesday by the state’s energy research agency. The 600-page report called […]