If you’ve heard of a Higgs Boson but wonder what the heck it is, this article does a fair job of explaining it in laymen’s terms. This week, physicists announced they had observed a real, live Higgs Boson decaying in situ for the first time:
The new announcement shows a strong agreement between the theoretical predictions and the experimental data, which could in turn set strict constraints on ideas of more fundamental physics that strive to explain why the Higgs boson even exists.
- The new movie about Neil Armstrong and the Apollo project, First Man, is getting decent reviews and might be worth catching—for those of us who still actually go to theaters.
- Labor Day weekend is traditionally the last day of summer in culture. But the official autumn equinox, is still three weeks away, on Saturday, Sept 22. Autumn is a great season, the best in my humble view, and it can’t come soon enough down here in Texas, where it’s been over 100 degrees for at least 50 or 60 days this summer.
- The Mars Rover Opportunity is now almost a decade and a half past its warranty date. It may have finally met an honorable death at the hands of a global Martian dust storm. But scientists are hoping to beat the odds and pull off a miraculous recovery.