What is the nature of our universe?
What is it made of?

 

 

 

 

 

Scientists from around the world
come to CERN…

 

 

 

 

 

… to seek answers to such
         fundamental questions…

 

 

 

 

 

… using particle accelerators
         and pushing the limits of technology.

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How to (try to) maintain your privacy online

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Supercomputer insights into the messy physics of galaxy formation

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21 Oct/20
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Henriette Elvang: Effective Field Theories from Amplitudes

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Probing BSM with gravitational waves across 20 decades in frequency...

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Nuclei: From Fundamental Interactions to Structure and Stars

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Jordy de Vries: Lepton number violation in effective field theory

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