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Kelly Izlar is the US LHC communications intern at Fermilab. She is based at CERN in Geneva.
Scientists in the US LHC Accelerator Research Program have successfully tested superconducting magnets needed to increase LHC collisions tenfold
Thirty years ago this week physicists at CERN announced that they had directly observed the Z boson
A new result from the CMS collaboration takes a step toward revealing the origin of the mysterious "ridge effect"
An art installation at CMS Point 5 transforms physicists into the particles they study
LHC experiments release a scattering of Higgs-candidate data to the public
A backstage look at the Large Hadron Collider during CERN's first long shutdown
Eighty years ago today, Physical Review published a paper by Carl Anderson announcing the discovery of the positron – the electron’s antiparticle
The LHCb experiment at CERN reports precise new measurements—but leaves open the question of why our matter-dominated universe exists
Students took to the podium today at the Sixth Inverted CERN School of Computing
The Linear Collider Collaboration unites global development work for a next-generation particle collider
In July 1913, Niels Bohr published the first of a series of three papers introducing his model of the atom