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Quark-Gluon Plasma that filled the early Universe investigated by ALICE
Physicists at CERN probed exotic subatomic particles -- and found some unexpected results.
At Last, Scientists Spot Higgs Boson Decaying into Fundamental Particles
The Higgs saga continue.
Physicists dream up LHC 2.0: a new particle accelerator three times bigger than the current LHC
Three times bigger and seven times more powerful. Particles have no idea what's in store for them.
Large Underground Xenon experiment fails to detect dark matter
Invisible dark matter continues to elude scientists
The LHC is back – and it’s stronger than ever
After the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took a 2 year hiatus to up its power, it's finally back, and it's ...
LHC back in business after two year hiatus: already breaks record
Two years ago, following the discovery of the Higgs boson - heralded as one of the greatest scientific achievements of ...
Stephen Hawking: ‘God particle’ might destroy the Universe. But wait…
Photo: Business Insider I'm not sure what's on with Stephen Hawking and his pessimistic view of the world. He's been ...
China plans to build world’s first super collider
Photo from inside CERN's particle accelerator. Photo: Martial Trezzini/epa/Corbis A group of Chinese physicists, working with international collaborators, have announced ...
The LHC is gearing up for long-awaited restart
Photo: LHC @ CERN The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is the most complex machinery devised ...
Particle accelerator on a chip demonstrated
Nanofabricated chips of fused silica just 3 millimeters long were used to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times higher ...
Smallest liquid droplets created at LHC are 100,000th the size of a hydrogen atom
Scientists closely working with the Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world, have identified evidence of ...
LHC passes ‘hardest’ test yet: ping-pong ball blazes through particle accelerator
The Large Hadron Collider may have shut down, but physicists are using some unusual techniques to test it, including a ...
Higgs boson discovery confirmed after CERN scientists reviewed massive LHC data
The science of physics has entered a new era once with the discovery of the much sought-after Higgs boson in ...
Higgs boson might be a twin particle, contradictory measurements suggest
The discovery of the Higgs boson is the most monumental find in physics of the year and possibility since the ...
Japan is lead candidate for hosting the next high energy particle smasher – the International Linear Collider
The Geneva based Large Hadron Collider has gobbled a lot of cash and resource in order to become operational, but ...
LHC finds new type of matter after proton-lead collision
A proton collides with a lead nucleus, sending a shower of particles through the CMS detector. (c) CERN After the ...
What’s next for the Large Hadron Collider?
With the Higgs Boson being arguably found, what could be in store for the Large Hadron Collider? Many, many things. ...
Hottest temperature on Earth reached after scientists create quark-gluon particle soup
Not one, but two independent high-energy particle physics laboratories in New York (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider - RHIC) and Geneva ...
ISS’s Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is like an LHC in space – already boasting fantastic results
Alright, the analogy might not be the best. The Large Hadron Collider is a high energy particle accelerator, while the Alpha Magnetic ...
