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In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics describes all known ...
Filmed to mark CERN’s seventieth anniversary, The Peace Particle combines poetry, music and rare archival footage, alongside special access to the Large Hadron Collider, to reveal how CERN was born ...
A Waterlooville company has helped provide parts to the Large Hadron Collider in what the owners have described as a proud ...
Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.
Nearly 50 years ago, physicists floated a bold idea: our universe might be stuck in a false vacuum. This state feels stable, but deep down, it's not. Over enormous timescales, it could suddenly tip ...
Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025. NAM is the flagship annual event ...
What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...
Almost a thousand of the world's top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK's National Astronomy ...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gets a breath of fresh air as it collides beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first ...
The world’s largest atom smasher has conducted its first-ever collisions between protons and oxygen ions, as part of an ...
This campaign will cover a wide range of research, from the study of cosmic rays to the strong force and quark-gluon plasma, ...
Iris van Herpen has an on-going collaboration with CERN. The Dutch fashion designer’s latest project, with photographer Nick ...