Do top quarks, nature's heaviest elementary particle, obey Einstein's rules at all times of day and night? Scientists at the ...

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As the carriers of the weak force, the W and Z bosons are central to the Standard Model of particle physics. Though ...

also known as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). People have been hyperventilating about this very, very big particle accelerator, which is run by the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN ...

Frédéric Garnier controls the process of inserting the inner former into the outer former. The grooves in the outer former, ...

CERN has elected to shut down the Large Hadron Collider early to save electricity. With Europe facing a dire situation this winter, CERN has agreed to a request from Électricité de France (EDF ...

It’s called the Large Hadron Collider, and its purpose is simple but ambitious: to crack the code of the physical world; to figure out what the universe is made of; in other words, to get to the ...

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In 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will come into operation at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. The highest-energy accelerator ever built, it heralds a new era in particle-physics research ...

Cern research has led to the creation of the World Wide Web, PET scanning, major cancer treatment advancements and smartphone ...

In a first-of-its-kind experiment conducted at the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scientists have attempted to discover if the universe's heaviest ...