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International researchers and industry meet in Brussels for the annual meeting of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study to discuss the post-LHC era
Leaders of international scientific organisations support the International Day of LGBTQ+ people in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths
First results are in for the KWISP detector’s hunt for hypothetical dark-energy particles from the Sun
This summer CERN scientists will be showcasing particle physics at festivals across Europe
The ATLAS collaboration has placed some of the tightest limits yet on the production rate of hypothetical particles known as magnetic monopoles
How a walk through CERN’s corridors helped lead to the discovery of the gluon forty years ago at the DESY laboratory
From today, all SI base units will be defined based on natural constants, with the kilogram the last to join the ranks
A century after physicist Ernest Rutherford published work proving the existence of the proton, much remains to be learnt about this ubiquitous particle
The LHCb collaboration has observed a new pentaquark particle and has confirmed the pentaquark structure previously reported