Empty space is anything but. Remove everything you can from an area of space and it will still bustle with activity. A veritable abundance of particles and all-pervasive fields fill space with energy. Empty space even weighs something. Indeed, studying ‘nothing’ can tell us almost everything about the universe we live in.

Learn more about the relationship between vacuum and “virtual” particles, the Higgs boson, supersymmetry and dark energy

• from The New York Review of Books
  10 May 2012
  The Crisis of Big Science

  … So in the next decade, physicists are probably going to ask their governments for support for whatever new and more powerful accelerator we then think will be needed. …

• from Kahoku Shinpo
  02 May 2012
  ＩＬＣ誘致「復興の象徴」　鳩山元首相、岩手知事に協力表明

  鳩山由紀夫元首相は１日、岩手県庁に達増拓也知事を訪ね、県が目指す超大型加速器「国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）」誘致に協力する考えを示した。

• from IBC
  01 May 2012
  鳩山元首相「ＩＬＣ誘致、手伝いたい」

  鳩山由紀夫元総理がきょう達増知事と懇談し、がれきの広域処理の促進や、国際リニアコライダーの誘致などへ積極的に行動することを伝えました。

• from The Register
  30 April 2012
  Boffins cross atom-smasher streams, ‘excited’ beauty pops into being

  Like Weird Science on a sub-atomic scale

• from Deutschlandfunk
  30 April 2012
  Dunkel ohne Materie?

  Bewegung der Sterne in der Sonnenumgebung lässt am Standardmodell der Astronomen zweifeln

• from Nikkei
  29 April 2012
  宇宙の起源に迫る～超大統一理論の検証へ第一歩

  ＣＥＲＮでヒッグス粒子が見つかっても、質量の起源であることを完全に証明するわけではない。(Subscribers only)

• from Iwate Nippo
  28 April 2012
  県ＩＬＣ推進協が発足　誘致へ機運醸成図る

  県内経済界が中心となり、本県への国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）誘致を目指す県国際リニアコライダー推進協議会が２７日、設立された。

• from CMS Experiment
  27 April 2012
  Observation of a new Xi_b^*0 beauty particle

  The CMS experiment has submitted a paper for publication describing the first observation of a new, excited beauty baryon known as the Ξ*b0, with a statistical significance of more than 5 standard deviations (5σ) above the expected background. The mass is measured to be 5945.0 ± 2.8 MeV.

• from Physics Today
  May 2012
  Shhhh. Listen to the data

  Sifting through large amounts of data, monitoring data streams, and communicating results are promising areas for sonification.