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Physics
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When I was young, I hated physics.

Not much has changed.

CERN at 60: Biggest moments at flagship physics lab
Until this time, particle physics had looked for traces of particle collisions by photographing their wake in bubble chambers or spark chambers. Charpak's invention — a gas-filled box in which amplifiers boosted the signals detected by each wire …
Read more on Nature.com (blog)

Five sigma and all that
I confess that in my early in my career as a physicist I was rather cynical about sophisticated statistical tools, being of the opinion that “if any of this makes a difference, just get more data”. That is, if you do enough experiments, the confidence …
Read more on The Guardian

Podcast: September Physics News Roundup
School has started and Halloween's just around the corner: that mean's it's time for our September news podcast! First up: do you know how old your water is? New research shows that some of the water on Earth predates the birth of the sun (paper here …
Read more on PhysicsCentral.com (blog)

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