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Physicists in Europe have reported that it’s possible to transport charged particles on a truck for four hours without disturbing them in any way. This seemingly run-of-the-mill announcement, reported…
From '‘The physics community has never split like this’: row erupts over plans for new Large Hadron Collider', The Guardian, March 29, 2025: However, if the FCC were given the go-ahead, it co…
On June 24, a press release from CERN said that scientists and engineers working on upgrading the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) had "built and operated … the most powerful electrical transmission l…
Every July 4, I have occasion to remember two things: the discovery of the Higgs boson, and my first published byline for an article about the discovery of the Higgs boson. I have no trouble believing…
Clockwork theory has been revived and reformulated by scientists from CERN to solve a difficult problem at the heart of particle physics.…
Four years of the Higgs boson, live-tweeting and timezones, new music, and quickly reviewing an Erikson book.…
Spending money on science has been tied to evaluating the value of spin-offs, assessing the link between technological advancement and GDP, and dissecting the metrics of productivity, but the debate w…
The world’s single largest science experiment will restart on March 23 after a two-year break. Scientists and administrators at the European Organization for Nuclear Research – known by its French acr…
The CERN Council has elected a new Director-General to succeed the incumbent Rolf-Dieter Heuer. Fabiola Gianotti, who served as the ATLAS collaboration's spokesperson from 2009 to 2013 - a period…
CERN has announced the restart schedule of its flagship science "project", the Large Hadron Collider, that will see the giant machine return online in early 2015. I'd written about the u…
I'd linked to a preprint paper [PDF] on arXiv a couple days ago that had summarized the search for Supersymmetry (Susy) from the first run of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). I'd written to on…
In our universe, matter is king: it makes up everything. Its constituents are incredibly tiny particles - smaller than even the protons and neutrons they constitute - and they work together with natur…