Today’s physics news: LHC boosts energy to snag Higgs — and superpartners, science behind ponytail revealed and more

Today’s physics news: LHC boosts energy to snag Higgs — and superpartners, science behind ponytail revealed and more

LHC boosts energy to snag Higgs — and superpartners
Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider have decided to boost the energy of collisions to get a better chance of flushing the Higgs out in the open. The machine’s managers have decided to increase the energy of collisions to 4 TeV per beam, for a total energy of 8 TeV.
New Scientist

Science behind ponytail revealed
Physicists from Warwick University have come up with an equation that explains the and predicts the shape of ponytail. The equation, reported in the journal Physical Review Letters, takes into account the stiffness of hairs, the effects of gravity, and the presence of random curliness or waviness.
BBC

Massive sunspot that has doubled in size in recent days could send solar storms careering towards Earth
A massive double-barrelled sunspot that has doubled in size in the past few days could give off medium-sized solar flares, some scientists have warned.
Daily Mail