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Can you make a black hole in a laboratory?
Stephen DiKerby, Michigan State University Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have…
Research replication can determine how well science is working – but how do scientists replicate studies?
Some research teams work on replicating prior studies to assess the value of a body of work. AzmanL/E+…
New discovery at Cern could hint at why our universe is made up of matter and not antimatter
William Barter, University of Edinburgh Why didn’t the universe annihilate itself moments after the big bang? A new…
The Large Hadron Collider gets reset and refreshed each year – a CERN physicist explains how the team uses subatomic splashes to restart the experiments
Particles rush through a long tunnel in the Large Hadron Collider. Maximilien Brice/CERN, CC BY-SA Riccardo Maria Bianchi,…
The (Actual) Truth About CERN
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a massive underground science experiment located on the border between France and…
Peter Higgs was one of the greats of particle physics. He transformed what we know about the building blocks of the universe
Harald Fox, Lancaster University Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the subatomic particle known as the Higgs…
Physicists Detect Neutrinos At the Large Hadron Collider In a Landmark First
If middle school and high school science has taught us anything about particle physics, it’s that atoms are…