Category: Physics
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Highlights from the 2019 Moriond conference (electroweak physics)
The latest experimental data provide more stringent tests of the Standard Model and of rare phenomena of the microworld
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LHCb sees a new flavour of matter–antimatter asymmetry
The LHCb collaboration has observed a phenomenon known as CP violation in the decays of a particle known as a D0 meson for the first time
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The usefulness of useless knowledge
Fundamental science will help solve the world’s problems
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Rugby or football? ISOLDE reveals shape-shifting character of Mercury isotopes
An unprecedented combination of experimental nuclear physics and theoretical and computational modelling techniques has been brought together to reveal the full extent of the odd-even shape staggering of exotic mercury isotopes, and explain how it happens
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Hunting for dark quarks
A search for dark quarks conducted by the CMS collaboration inches closer to the parent particles from which they may originate
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Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed
Six years after its discovery, the Higgs boson has at last been observed decaying to fundamental particles known as bottom quarks.
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Opinion: We need to talk about the Higgs
It is six years ago that the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced, to great fanfare in the world’s media, as a crowning success of CERN’s LHC
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LIVE: Inside CERN’s antimatter factory
On Thursday 26 April 2018 at 4pm CEST, join the CERN Facebook live from our unique Antiproton Decelerator
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A new era of precision for antimatter research
The ALPHA experiment at CERN has measured a light-induced transition in antihydrogen with unprecedented precision
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Higgs results take centre stage at annual Moriond conference
ATLAS and CMS present new measurements of the properties of the Higgs boson