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The article focuses on the megaproject, two intertwined efforts called the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), which will not be completed to its original specs until the mid-2030s. Topics include comments from physicists involved in the project, a rival in Japan called Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K), and the plan of Hyper-K and DUNE to search for neutrinos from supernova explosions and signs that protons can decay.

The article discusses the U.S. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's (Fermilab's) NuMI Off-Axis Electron Neutrino Appearance (NOvA) experiment. The metamorphic behavior of neutrinos, which come in three types including the electron, the muon, and the tau, how understanding neutrino oscillations could help theorists explain how the infant universe produced so much matter and so little antimatter, and how NOvA compares to Japan’s T2K experiment are discussed.

The article provides information about the different measures on creating a new collider being established by competing teams from Japan, United States, and Italy. It is stated that physicists and scientists from various countries are planning to push an existing machine to its limits and upgrade its features, use an idea of cobbling together old parts of the machine, and put precision physics to work to be able to build a new particle smasher. Information regarding the features of entries are discussed in the article.

The article reports on the first samples of superconductors made by the group of Hai-Hu Wen, a physicist at the Institute of Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, which were patterned after Japan's new superconductor that carried electricity without resistance at a balmy temperature of 26 kelvin. Hai-Hu Wen is one of the many groups in China that has started out a new family of high-temperaure superconductors out from Japanese material scientist Hideo Hosono of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Physicists all over the world are praising the discovery of the new iron-and-arsenic compounds as a major advance while high-temperature superconductivity remains the biggest mystery in condensed matter physics.

The article provides information about the ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays in Japan. Some theorist interpreted the excess as a hint of exotic new particles. The physicists with the Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (AGASA) spotted the particles crashing at energies of 100 exa-elctron volts (EeV), for about 100 million times higher than any particle accelerator has achieved. Physicists believed that cosmic ray gain energy as they swirl in magnetic fields. The Auger data indicating that the most energetic rays are protons is also provided.

The article presents information related to the construction of exotic isotope accelerator machine by Wako, Japan. In December 2006 the worlds most powerful cyclotron Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory (RIBF) at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) in Wako will start. According to Hiroyoshi Sakurai, chief nuclear physicist at RIKEN's Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, which built and will operate the $380 million machine says that the data from RIBF will allow them to form a new framework for nuclear science.

The article reports that in an exhibition hall at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi, Japan, a gigantic newspaper covering more than 5 square meters delivers the news to passersby in crisp black and white, unlike a traditional broadsheet, which goes from printing press to trash bin within a few hours, the Yomiuir Global Newspaper never becomes old news. Produced by Japan's Toppan Printing Co. and the American high-tech firm E Ink Corp., the newspaper is just one of several demonstradons, prototypes, and products featuring the new technology. Philips envisions using the screens for retractable displays on hand-held devices and plans to begin design for production this year, says Hans Driessen, a spokesperson for Philips Research in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

The article focuses on the 117 physicists mainly from Japan and the U.S. to take data with cosmic ray observatory that covers 730 square kilometers of western Utah. The dubbed Telescope Array team, aims to spot the most energetic sub-atomic particles from space such as ultra-energy cosmic rays pack as much as energy as a golf ball hitting fairway. Meanwhile, the Telescope Array also directs to test the Auger result and to decipher the nature of the rays. Moreover, the Auger and Telescope Array may be forced to work together. The Telescope Array team hopes someday to expand its observatory while the auger team also plans to build a far-bigger array in Colorado in the next few years.

This article informs that in Sebastian Junger's 1997 bestseller "The Perfect Storm," two storms merge to form a gargantuan cyclone. Now, physicists have spotted the quantum-mechanical equivalent: the merging of several tiny whirlpools of current in a superconductor into a single "giant vortex." Fulfilling a decades-old prediction, the observation may foreshadow stranger things to come and help lay the groundwork for the budding field of "fluxonics." Researchers have had indirect evidence of the giant vortices and have been striving to image them with sophisticated scanning techniques. But Akinobu Kanda of the University of Tsukuba, Japan, Ben Baelus of the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and colleagues have taken a short-cut to the first direct evidence for the jumbo swirls, as they report in the 17 December Physical Review Letters.

Japan's first interplanetary probe has finally made it to Mars, but it isn't staying. Star-crossed Nozomi set out for Mars in July 1998 and was supposed to reach it 15 months later. But 6 months into the mission, a balky thruster threw it off course, and during the ensuing 5-year detour, solar radiation scorched the delicate machine. Now, the spacecraft has run out of fuel, cannot maneuver into orbit, and is zinging past the planet, officials at Japan's space agency JAXA announced December 9. That makes Nozomi the third Mars mission to fail in the past 5 years, which should be a lesson to those pushing for a human mission, says James Van Allen, a space scientist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.