What Does the Large Hadron Collider Upgrade Mean for Physics?
The Large Hadron Collider made history in 2012 by discovering the Higgs boson, now as it restarts, the search begins ...
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CERN draws up plans for new particle accelerator four times bigger than the LHC
Deep physics might have a new toy. Full operation expected for 2050.
The LHC is back in business!
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has smashed its first particle since it was shut down two years ago. The particle ...
Record breaking energies achieved in a compact particle accelerator 3 million times smaller than the LHC
With the help of the most powerful laser in the world, scientists have achieved the highest energies yet in a ...
Particle accelerator only 30cm in size is hundred times faster than LHC
Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have devised a particle accelerator that can increase the kinetic energy of particles passing ...
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 ...
NASA discovers surprise energy belt surrounding Earth
A ring of radiation that scientists knew nothing about fleetingly surrounded our planet last year, before being blown away by ...
LHC reaches highest energy yet
It's been pretty quiet lately at the LHC, despite the fact that things seemed to be getting pretty hot, as ...
Key neutrino discovery helps understand how their oscillation occurs
In what's arguable the most important physics discovery ever to come out of China, and a perfect example of "by ...
New subatomic particle observed for first time at Fermilab
Scientists at Fermilab’s Tevatron particle collider on Wednesday voiced excitement about the observation of a new particle. The new particle, ...
Antimatter mystery gets a hint
Physics is still not sure what to make of antimatter; theoretically speaking, after the Big Bang, matter and antimatter were ...
Antimatter trapped for 15 minutes at CERN
The team operating the Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA) at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland reported storing antimatter for ...
For one tiny instant, physicists break a law of nature
The LHC isn't the only particle accelerator doing serious business these days; scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island ...
The Russian forgotten twin of the LHC.
Pretty much everyone, at least everyone who gives a damn about science, knows about the Large Hadron Collider built in ...
Physicists create a supernova in a jar
A supernova is a stellar explosion of cosmic proportions, that often can outshine the entire galaxy it is located in, ...
The man who got his head into a particle accelerator
We've all heard stories about soviet scientists, and Hollywood played quite an important role in that. Really few of those ...