Remembering physicist Peter Higgs – podcast
The Nobel prize-winning British physicist Peter Higgs has died aged 94. The confirmation in 2012 of the existence of the Higgs boson particle, five decades after Higgs had first theorised its existence, paved the way for his 2013 Nobel win. Nicknamed ‘the god particle’, the Higgs boson was part of an attempt to explain why the building blocks of the universe have mass. Ian Sample and Madeleine Finlay look back on the life and legacy of a giant of scienceRead an obituary of Peter HiggsContinue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 10, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Madeleine Finlay with Ian Sample, produced by Joshan Chana, the executive producer is Ellie Bury Tags: Science Physics Peter Higgs Cern Large Hadron Collider Particle physics Source Type: news
Characteristics of motorization's impact on the urban population - Fornalchyk Y, Hilevych V.
It is known that the most important thing in maintaining the good health of citizens is to save their lives from possible fatal road accidents, ensure the cleanliness of the air space, isolation from excessive noise pollution, electromagnetic fields. The l... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 10, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Fatal radiation-induced injury resulting from the deliberate use of ionizing radiation source for illegal purposes - Kvacheva YE, Kovalev AV, Gribunov YP, Shestakova IN.
A rare clinical observation of death from prolonged uneven external irradiation due to the deliberate use of an ionizing radiation source for illegal purposes has been presented. The main difficulties of postmortem diagnosis of this type of radiation-induc... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 10, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Impact of pedestrian flows on traffic delays before roundabouts - Bura R, Rohalskyy R.
The paper examines a roundabout located in a residential district of Lviv city. The area has many attraction points, so traffic and pedestrian flow volumes are large. All approaches to the roundabout have unsignalized pedestrian crosswalks, three of which ... (Source: SafetyLit)
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Occupational accidents in Slovak military forests and estates: incidence, timing, and trends over 10 years - Allman M, Dudáková Z, Jankovský M.
INTRODUCTION: Forestry provides a wide range of employment opportunities worldwide and is seen as one of the high-risk industries in terms of occupational accidents. OBJECTIVES: The submitted study analyzed the injury rate in the Military Forests a... (Source: SafetyLit)
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Road traffic injuries and the built environment in Bogot á, Colombia, 2015-2019: a cross-sectional analysis - Zewdie HY, Sarmiento OL, Pinzon JD, Wilches-Mogollon MA, Arbelaez PA, Baldovino-Chiquillo L, Hidalgo D, Guzman LA, Mooney SJ, Nguyen QC, Tasdizen T, Quistberg DA.
We examined... (Source: SafetyLit)
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Majority of US science agency budgets cut for 2024
An increase in federal spending for the sciences in the US was short-lived, as the 2024 budget has seen significant cuts for many agencies – and 2025 looks to be on a similar track. Across its latest report and science budget tracker, the American Institute of Physics (AIP) has detailed the…#departmentofdefense #basicresearch #scienceact #nasascience #darpa #tsmc #arizona #reformofusa #aip #democraticsenate (Source: Reuters: Health)
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Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94
Nobel-prize winning physicist who showed how particle helped bind universe together died at home in EdinburghPeter Higgs, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who proposed a new particle known as the Higgs boson, has died.Higgs, 94, who was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 2013 for his work in 1964 showing how the boson helped bind the universe together by giving particles their mass, died at home in Edinburgh on Monday.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 9, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Severin Carrell and Ian Sample Tags: Peter Higgs Higgs boson Particle physics UK news Scotland Nobel prizes Science People in science Science prizes Edinburgh University of Edinburgh Source Type: news
Physicist Peter Higgs, whose subatomic particle research changed the world, has died
The Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs has died at age 94. He was celebrated for his work on the mass of subatomic particles. (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Geoff Brumfiel Source Type: news
Peter Higgs obituary
Theoretical physicist whose name was attached to the Higgs boson, a sign of the mechanism underlying the structure of atomsIn 1964 the theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, who has died aged 94, suggested that the universe contains an all-pervading essence that can be manifested in the form of particles. This idea inspired governments to spend billions to find what became known as Higgs bosons.The so-called “Higgs mechanism” controls the rate of thermonuclear fusion that powers the sun, but for which this engine of the solar system would have expired long before evolution had time to work its miracles on earth. The struct...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 9, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Frank Close Tags: Peter Higgs Higgs boson People in science Physics University of Edinburgh Mathematics Scotland Newcastle Bristol Source Type: news
Peter Higgs, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics for Higgs boson prediction, dies aged 94
Peter Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013. Peter Higgs, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, has died aged 94. The University of Edinburgh, where Higgs was an emeritus professor, said in a statement that he passed away peacefully at…#peterhiggs #nobelprizeinphysics #nobelprize #françoisenglert #largehadron #petermathieson #newcastle (Source: Reuters: Health)
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Study sheds light on the white dwarf star, likely destroyer of our solar system
Huge gravity of these dense stars, which have burned all their own fuel, rips apart smaller planetary bodiesIt ’s the end of the world, not quite as we know it.Scientists from the University of Warwick and other universities have studied the impact white dwarfs – end-of-state stars that have burned all their fuel – have on planetary systems such as our own solar system.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 9, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Jamie Grierson Tags: Space Physics Science University of Warwick Source Type: news
A machine learning based approach for smart and automated data collection: applications in transportation - Agarwal S, Gupta S, Kachroo P, Dhingra N.
This paper presents a streamlined machine learning-assisted integrated approach for smart surveys and data collection with applications to multiple domains such as transportation, aviation, healthcare, and education. We exploit several machine learning met... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 9, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Analysis and modelling of acceleration behavior on the horizontal curves of two-lane undivided rural highways passing through mountainous terrain - Anna VABK, Darlong T, Chunchu M.
This study has analyzed and modeled the vehicle's longitudinal acceleration behavior of passenger car and loaded truck on the horizontal curves of a two-lane highway passing through mountainous terrain. The acceleration profiles have shown that 98% of the ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 9, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Analysis of street vendor effects on urban arterial road - Getu N, Kifle D, Mesfin A, Yifru W, Tamene M, Sewunet A.
The presence of street vendors on the road and along the sides of the road causes traffic and pedestrian congestion. Their impact on on-road performance was measured in terms of travel speed, capacity, and pedestrian level of service (PLOS). The field data... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 9, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
