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Physicists zoom into the birth of cosmic rainstorms with new CERN study
Jesse Liu, New York University Every second, particles zip through your body at nearly the speed of light.…
Storing Radioactive Waste Is Weirder Than You Think
From deep underwater pools and solid glass cakes to simple empty rooms in hospitals, the ways we store radioactive waste are far weirder than you might imagine.
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…
Why Physicists Built an Experiment the Size of a Sea
Deep beneath the Mediterranean, a massive neutrino detector has captured a particle so energetic it could rewrite our fundamental understanding of the cosmos.
What If Reality Isn’t Built from the Bottom Up?
A mysterious 17-order-of-magnitude gap at the foundation of reality challenges our most fundamental scientific principle: that big things are simply the sum of their smaller parts.
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,…
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…
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,…
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…