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FYI: What Would Happen If You Got Zapped By The Large Hadron Collider?
Hadron ColliderCourtesy CernThe scientists at the LHC would like to make two things very clear. First, it's just a horrible idea to put any part of your body in front of the collider's two proton...
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A Very Simple Explanation Of The Higgs Boson
What Is The HiggsScreenshot via NYTimesFrançois Englert and Peter Higgs have won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, as was pretty much a guarantee once physicists at CERN last year announced they had...
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Stephen Hawking On The Future Of CERN
Physicist Stephen Hawking on a Zero-Gravity Flight, 2007Jim Campbell - Aero-News Network for Zero Gravity Corporation®That Stephen Hawking, always looking for trouble. In a speech at the London Science...
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'Indisputable' Proof Of A New Four-Quark Particle
Large Hadron ColliderCERNUsing the most powerful particle collider in the world, a research group at CERN has forged a particle made of four quarks, the European organization announced yesterday.Most...
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Two Higgs Boson Scientists Knighted
CERNTwo of the scientists involved in the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 have been knighted as part of Queen Elizabeth II's list of Birthday Honours. Professors Tom Kibble and Tejinder Virdee,...
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Click Your Way To Discovery In CERN's 'Particle Clicker' Game
My Particle Clicker LabParticle Clicker, CERNFree beer = more science? Yes please.The only thing holding back scientific research at my virtual lab was not enough free beer. Thanks to a new game by a...
View ArticleThat Time The Feds Built A Deluxe Atom Cannon In Palo Alto
Fifty years ago, in December 1964, Popular Science featured a machine that would probe the deepest secrets of matter. Just west of Stanford University, the U.S. Department of Energy was building a two...
View ArticleWhat Does The Higgs Boson Sound Like? [Video]
Video of Higgs Boson SonificationSometimes for fun I'll watch a movie, or if I'm feeling industrious maybe I'll knit a scarf. When you're a physicist at CERN, the things you do for fun are apparently a...
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Resurrected Large Hadron Collider Smashes Protons, And Speed Records
CollisionCMSParticles are detected by the CMS instrument on the LHC after protons collide at 13 TeVThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has hosted a number of major scientific achievements, not the least of...
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The Next Higgs Boson: Made In China?
CERNSuper colliders are already massive. The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland features a circular track over 16 miles long. Today, Chinese state media announced the nation’s plan to construct a...
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Big Bang Machine Shut Down By Small Mammal
Science Large Hadron Collider temporarily offline from weasel or marten bite Here's hoping that it wasn't actually a time traveler sent back from an apocalyptic future intending to sabotage the LHC to...
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CERN Confirms: Large Hadron Collider Downed By Small Beech Marten
Animals NOT a weasel! Let this all be a cautionary tale to the rest of us to A) not touch complex electrical equipment if we don't know what we're doing and B) not rush to judgement when it…
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Take A Look At The Infinity Machine
Science It's not as scary as it sounds Over at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland, scientists have built a real, working "Infinity machine."…
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Can Trees Make Clouds Form?
Science Yes, with help from the cosmos The “pristine” atmosphere our planet had before the industrial revolution may have been cloudier than expected.
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Could There Be A Fifth Fundamental Force Of Nature?
Science Strong and weak nuclear force, electromagnetism, gravity... and maybe something else Hungarian physicists think they've found a fifth force…
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Adorable Baby Falcon Found At CERN
Animals Look at its angry little face Someone found an adorable baby falcon at CERN…
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A Ninja Star Battery, Newly Found Hobbit Remains, And Other Amazing Images Of...
Science Plus, a heart in a backpack
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First Test For Machine That Could Change The Future Of Particle Physics
Science Method might shrink particle accelerators from town size to table size New Accelerator will make things smaller…
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Researchers Just Found A Huge Underground Helium Pool In Africa
Environment A life-saving discovery Most of us encounter helium in balloons, but the gas is far more precious than it's presence in party favors lets on.
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World's Largest Atom Smasher Lab Treats Every Unattended Bag Like A Bomb
Science If you LHC something, say something CERN discussed their unattended baggage policy online.
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