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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,…
July 31, 2024
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…
April 16, 2024
Higgs boson: ten years after its discovery, why this particle could unlock new physics beyond the standard model
Press conference for the announcement of the Higgs boson discovery. Cern Martin Bauer, Durham University and Stephen Jones,…
July 28, 2022
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…
December 13, 2021