A Physics Breakthrough: More Evidence of New Particles or Forces
This donut-shaped ring is a racetrack for particles called muons. It operates at negative 450 degrees Fahrenheit, and physicists use the machine to study muons as they travel through a magnetic field. Photo credit: Reidar Hahn / Courtesy of Fermilab Physics A Physics Breakthrough: More Evidence of New Particles or Forces
New results from a massive experiment double down on indicating undiscovered influences on particles called muons
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There are still-undiscovered particles or unknown forces swirling all around us, suggest new results from a massive experiment conducted at the US Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Illinois. The findings were analyzed with the help of more than 200 scientists from 35 institutions in seven countries, including physicists from Boston University.
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Deep Ocean Reveals Surprising Discovery about Immunity
In the largest and deepest marine protected area in the world, a team of ocean experts peered over 3,000 meters below the surface to find new types of microbial organisms that people would have never encountered before. These microbes-types of bacteria-could now open up doors to new ways of understanding how the immune system responds to completely foreign invaders.
A collaborative study between the Rotjan Marine Ecology Lab at Boston University, the Kagan Lab at the Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, the government of Kiribati, and others has found that there are some bacteria so foreign to humans that our immune cells can’t register that they exist, overriding the long-held belief of universal immunity, or that our cells can recognize any bacteria they interact with. Rather, the study found, some bacteria are solely defined by their local habitat or surroundings. Their findings were published F
Boston University scientists led a global team of 13 researchers (all mothers) from different backgrounds and career stages to author an action plan to foster a more equitable and inclusive higher education and research system.
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In spring 2015, Graham Grail, then a sophomore at Boston University, approached one of his professors with an idea. One day after class, he walked up to Carolyn Hodges-Simeon’s podium and explained that he wanted to research voice, specifically how it changes in transgender men who take testosterone. Hodges-Simeon, a biological anthropologist who researches sex differences in speech and the voice, was immediately on board.
“I was very surprised to see that at the time there was so little research in this area, and it got me thinking, how do physicians know the proper dosage? How do people starting testosterone therapy know what to expect?” says Hodges-Simeon, a BU College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of anthropology.