The Standard Model
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The close of 2013 gives us an excellent opportunity, though satiated with holiday feasts, to look back on a year that has been filled with scientific accomplishment.
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ScienceThe study of archaeology has long been carried out using tools from the physics lab. What is less well known is that archaeology has also made substantial contributions to physics. This is the story of old lead; why it is important to physics, and what ethical problems it presents to both sciences.
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ScienceFollowing a last-minute delay, physicists Francois Englert and Peter Higgs were today jointly awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for their independent invention of the Higgs mechanism, which supplies fundamental particles with mass.
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ScienceResearchers at the USDOE's Jefferson Accelerator Laboratory have measured the weak charge of the proton for the first time. Early results from the Q-Weak experiment find the weak charge of the proton and the neutron to be consistent with predictions of the Standard Model.
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ScienceIn the wake of the shutdown in 2011 of the US Department of Energy's Tevatron, the remaining accelerators at the at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have been reconfigured to drive a world-class neutron beam.
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ScienceAn international team of scientists using the largest telescope in the world at Keck Observatory has overcome a major obstacle to the Big Bang model of the Universe.
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ScienceRecent cosmological observations suggest choosing Einstein's cosmological constant over dark energy models.
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ScienceDiscovery of an elementary particle not predicted by the Standard Model of Particle Physics has been reported and confirmed.