Scientists working at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois have made some of the most important discoveries in physics over the years, including the existence of the top quark and characterizing the neutrino. Now, the team working on Fermilab’s Muon g−2 experiment has reported a tantalizing hint of a new type …
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Space Force’s Lt. Gen. John Thompson spoke at TC Sessions: Space earlier this week. Throughout the wide-ranging interview, General Thompson explained the various ways and means for how private companies like startups should interact with Space Force. Gen. Thompson knows what he’s talking about. As the commander of the Space …
Read More »Photon Collisions
Produce Pairs of Weak-Force Carriers Produce Pairs of Weak-Force CarriersPhysicists from the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have observed production of W bosons, elementary particles that carry the weak force, from photons colliding with photons. This new result confirms one of the main predictions …
Read More »New GOP bill lets companies force you to take genetic tests, lets them share results with third parties
A new bill introduced by Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and approved by the House Ways and Means Committee would allow corporations to force employees to undergo genetic testing — and then share those results with third parties. In theory, this is already illegal, thanks to a 2008 law known as GINA. …
Read More »Bipartisan bill would force police to get warrants before using Stingray cell tracker
A rare alliance of Democratic and Republican members of the US Congress could lead to increased restrictions on how police officers can deploy so-called Stingray cell phone trackers. These devices are regularly used to investigate suspected criminals, but the nature of the system means a lot of innocent Americans are …
Read More »The so-called fifth force of nature is starting to look more and more real
A fifth fundamental force, perhaps discovered as part of the search for dark matter, has been reported in a new paper published in Physical Review Letters. The results still need further analysis, but they represent a step forward for an idea that has caused several months of controversy in open-source journals, …
Read More »Sphero Star Wars Force Band Used For Home Automation Using IFTTT
If you are the lucky owner of a Star Wars Force Band by Sphero normally used to control the companies Star Wars robot BB-8. You might be interested in some new IFTTT recipes which have been created to help with a little home automation. Check out the video below to …
Read More »BlackBerry wants Congress to force everyone to make BlackBerry apps
It’s no secret that if you acquire a BlackBerry or Windows Phone, a lot of your favourite apps won’t be there – well at least officially. However, while Microsoft is pushing hard in trying to court companies to build a Windows Phone app, BlackBerry is taking a different route. The …
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