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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 ...
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 ...
Rumors of imminent Higgs boson announcement run amok on science blogs. Discovery might be announced next week
The Higgs boson or the God particle, as it's also been commonly referred to, is a hypothetical particle that endows other ...
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 ...
Fermilab’s Tevatron accelerator hints Higgs boson existance, confirms LHC data
The biggest manhunt in physics history is steadily closing in on its target. Wanted - Higgs boson, also known as ...
New CERN experiment finds neutrinos still faster than light
The idea which states that nothing can travel faster than light is a corner stone of modern day physics, upon ...
Particles faster than speed of light put to the test by Fermilab, US
Last week, ground shattering news hit the scientific community worldwide when CERN announced that their experiments showed that neutrinos fired ...
People find out that CERN trapped antimatter for over 15 minutes
It always baffles me to see how science news propagate; it seems whenever a study or a report is published, ...
Densest material ever created announced at LHC
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) continues on its quest to find out exactly what happened in the first seconds after ...
Scientific world buzzing around rumour that God particle has been detected
The world scientific community is absolutely abuzz with the rumour that the Higgs boson, the elusive God particle, may have ...
New exotic particle behaviour found at CERN
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has started doing some serious business. This time, an extremely rare particle containing equal ...
Large Hadron Collider can be the world’s first time machine
It's been a while since we wrote something about the Large Hadron Collider, but this time, some researchers from the ...
Antimatter captured at CERN
For physicists, antimatter is probably the most valuable substance ever; the slightest bit of it could provide extremely valuable information ...
Large Hadron Collider creates mini big bangs and incredible heat
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has taken another step towards its goal of finding the so called 'god particle': ...
The Higgs boson was initially called the ‘goddamn particle’
Peter Higgs is not the rockstar type of scientist; the particle physicist rarely gives interviews, despite the fact that he ...
LHC – we have a collision !
"It's a great day to be a particle physicist," said CERN director general Rolf Heuer. "A lot of people have ...
LHC produces first results
Since the Large Hadron Collider went back in business, all sort of rumors have been circling the scientific circles (and ...
