How the Higgs boson is born and how it dies: the most precise picture so far

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations, at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, have combined their data to produce our most precise view to date of the Higgs boson.

Jon Butterworth, The Guardian

Sunday 20 September 2015

Brain research

 

The brain is the most complex and the most mysterious machine we know of.

Much more than an organ, it is a system whose secrets can help us not only cure diseases, but also build better computing systems, able to do things that today we may not even imagine. Powerful computers are needed to succeed in the brain research and new knowledge from simulating the brain will help up design the future computing technologies. Developments in one feed the other and need the other and vice versa.

Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science?

 

Mondadori Portfolio, via Getty Images

At the Solvay Conference on Physics in 1927, the only woman in attendance was Marie Curie (bottom row, third from left).

By EILEEN POLLACK, The New York Times Published: October 3, 2013

 

Last summer, researchers at Yale published a study proving that physicists, chemists and biologists are likely to view a young male scientist more favorably than a woman with the same qualifications. Presented with identical summaries of the accomplishments of two imaginary applicants, professors at six major research institutions were significantly more willing to offer the man a job. If they did hire the woman, they set her salary, on average, nearly $4,000 lower than the man’s. Surprisingly, female scientists were as biased as their male counterparts.

Trust in science would be improved by study pre-registration

The quest: a better understanding of nature. Photograph: Sebastian Kaulitzki/Alamy

Open letter: We must encourage scientific journals to accept studies before the results are in

• Chris Chambers, Marcus Munafo and more than 70 signatories

• guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 5 June 2013 12.45 BST
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April is Math Awareness Month: “Math and Sustainability”

 

April is Math Awareness Month: “Math and Sustainability”

Join the “Sustainability Counts!” challenge.

European Launch and MPE Day at UNESCO on March 5

Press release – French – Spanish – Spanish dossier – Message from François Hollande

Details of the programme

Exhibition

Exhibition winners

Notes on the exhibition by Andreas Matt

Impressions on the MPE Day by Ehrhard Behrends

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More than 100 scientific societies, universities, research institutes, and organizations all over the world have banded together to dedicate 2013 as a special year for the Mathematics of Planet Earth.