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A theory-defying anomaly has persisted in the latest results from a Large Hadron Collider experiment, according to…
Sep 13 2019
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Physicists at Fermilab have produced and tested a powerful magnet of the sort that could appear in the next…
Jun 7 2019
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New results from the world’s largest particle accelerator illuminate the structure of the pentaquark, an exotic…
Mar 21 2019
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Scientists have announced the observation of “CP violation in a D0 meson” at CERN, a discovery that will appear in…
Jan 15 2019
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A scientific collaboration has released a concept design for the Large Hadron Collider’s successor, an enormous new…
Dec 11 2018
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The universe began with a bang—and things immediately got weird.
Dec 6 2018
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The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, will be turned off for the next two years for upgrades.…
Oct 2 2018
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There’s a tired, much-debunked doomsday theory pushed by British physicist Martin Rees that powerful particle…
Sep 28 2018
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An enormous weather balloon in Antarctica spotted what looked like a high-energy particle from outer space striking…
Sep 16 2018
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The European Union passed its disastrous Copyright Directive this week, including amended versions of its onerous…
Sep 11 2018
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September 10 marked the 10th anniversary of when the Large Hadron Collider first powered on. Since it’s already…
Sep 4 2018
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This month, Italian physicists will turn on an experiment hunting for a fifth, dark force of nature, the Guardian…
Jul 31 2018
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You can feasibly put anything inside the world’s largest physics experiment, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in…
Jul 9 2018
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Scientists can’t take pictures of the Higgs boson. But they can find proof of its existence by watching “E=mc2” play…
Jun 15 2018
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Today, workers at the world’s largest atom smasher are breaking ground on a performance-enhancing upgrade that will…
Feb 9 2018
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It appears that the Universe is full of dark matter—around six times more of it than there is regular matter. It has…
Feb 2 2018
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Scientists have uncovered some preliminary evidence for a nuclear physics effect first predicted back in the 1970s.…
Nov 6 2017
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Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek was optimistic back in 2012. After all, he’d just won a wager after scientists had…
Oct 23 2017
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We live in a universe filled with weird stuff that we don’t really understand: dark matter. Physicists have observed…
Aug 16 2017
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Particle accelerators have a lot of important jobs, like looking for new stuff by slamming beams of old stuff…