At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), physicists accelerate particles to the highest energies and in the greatest numbers that humanity has ever achieved. We smash them together at greater than ...

Polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs) are manufactured chemicals added as flame retardants to electrical devices, plastics, and various textiles. PBBs belong to the largest class of flame retardants used ...

Researchers have analyzed data from a variety of forests and ecosystems across North America, and discovered general trends in decay rates among all leaves. The scientists devised a mathematical ...

Radioactive material gets a bad rap, what with radiation and fallout and nuclear waste and all. But it offers some practical uses. One of the coolest (OK, maybe the coolest) is using radioactive ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. There were a huge variety of potential new physics signatures that ...

ARC Research Associate (Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at Tera Scale), University of Adelaide On July 4, 2012, two experiments (ATLAS and CMS) at CERN announced the discovery of a new boson ...