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Sterile neutrino existence rejected

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 7 Sep 2016

Scientists have dismissed the existence of sterile neutrinos after the analysis of hundreds and tho…

‘Weak’ physical forces measured for first time

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 31 May 2016

Individual van der Waals forces between individual atoms have been measured for the first time by s…

Attractive forces unlikely to be source of matter – antimatter difference

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 23 Nov 2015

The attractive force between antiprotons – the antiparticle of proton – has been measured for the …

LHC produces ‘littlest liquid’

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 13 Oct 2015

Quark-gluon plasma – a state of matter thought to have existed right at the birth of the Universe –…

Neutrino oscillations discovery wins Noble Prize

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 6 Oct 2015

Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald's discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrino …

Highest-energy neutrino ever detected

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 27 Aug 2015

 

Physicists at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the South Pole, have measured the hig…

World’s oldest scientific prize awarded to Peter Higgs

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 20 Jul 2015

The Royal Society’s Copley Medal – the world’s oldest scientific prize – has been awarded to Profes…

New particle discovered at the LHC

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 15 Jul 2015

Physicists at CERN have discovered a new class of particles known as pentaquarks.!--more--

A resea…

LHC smashes protons together once again

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 2 Apr 2015

After a delay, the second run of the Large Hadron Collider – the world’s largest and most powerful …

New particles found as CERN make data publicly available

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 28 Nov 2014

CERN has announced that the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has found two new pa…

Did gravity save the universe after the Big Bang?

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 27 Nov 2014

The universe did not collapse immediately after the Big Bang and a team of European physicists migh…

First female Director General for CERN

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 4 Nov 2014

CERN have appointed Italian physicist Dr Fabiola Gianotti as their next Director General, the first…

Happy Birthday CERN!

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 29 Sep 2014

Today marks 60 years since the 12 founding member states ratified the CERN convention and the Europ…

Love in the air at CERN

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 14 Feb 2014

As CERN celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, a pair of Italian physicists whose lives have be…

It’s going pear-shaped for atomic nuclei

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 5 Jun 2013

According to the Standard Model, we shouldn’t even exist – but an international team of physicists …

Coupling single atoms to form quantum states

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 30 May 2013

Scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology have coupled single atoms to form quantum states…

Interview with CERN Director General Professor Rolf Heuer

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 5 Dec 2012

We caught up with CERN Director General Professor Rolf Heuer at the STEMNET Awards at the House of …

New approach for invisibility

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 23 Nov 2012

A team at MIT has developed a new approach for allowing objects to become “invisible.” The new conc…

Splitting the unsplittable atom

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 9 Jul 2012

Researchers in Germany have split the unsplittable and separated a single atom into two halves, pul…

New particle consistent with Higgs found

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 4 Jul 2012

A new particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson has been observed by the ATLAS and CMS e…