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Lab-made liquid may cause strange particle behaviour

A new result from the CMS collaboration takes a step toward revealing the origin of the mysterious "ridge effect"

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Accelerators
08 May, 2013

Webcast: Ig Nobel show

Marc Abrahams, editor of the <em>Annals of Improbable Research</em> will be presenting the Ig Nobel show at the University of Geneva today

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At CERN
07 May, 2013
At CERN
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07 May, 2013

The birth of a Higgs boson

Physicists from the ATLAS and CMS collaborations explain how they came to identify the new particle of 2012 as "a Higgs boson"

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Physics
07 May, 2013
Physics
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07 May, 2013

First TEDxCERN event kicks off at CERN

The inaugural TEDxCERN event at CERN today will see a plethora of talks on topics from seafloor earthquakes to the Higgs boson

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At CERN
03 May, 2013

The Large Hadron Collider's worldwide computer

Behind the excellent results from CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) lies the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid – a giant that never sleeps

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Computing
01 May, 2013

ALPHA: Novel investigation of gravity and antimatter

The ALPHA collaboration has published a paper describing the first direct analysis of how antimatter is affected by gravity

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Physics
30 April, 2013

Twenty years of a free, open web

On 30 April 1993 CERN published a statement that made World Wide Web technology available on a royalty free basis, allowing the web to flourish

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Computing
30 April, 2013
Computing
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30 April, 2013

ALICE: Upgrade work begins

With the long shutdown under way, the ALICE collaboration is preparing for the next 10 years of operation

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Experiments
29 April, 2013
Experiments
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29 April, 2013

The Large Hadron Collider goes to London

The Science Museum in London is launching a new exhibition featuring digital detector caverns and magnets from the LHC

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Accelerators
25 April, 2013
Accelerators
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25 April, 2013

LHCb experiment observes new matter-antimatter difference

The LHCb collaboration has made the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays the B<sup>0</sup><sub>s</sub>

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Physics
24 April, 2013