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ATLAS gets under the hood of the Higgs mechanism

The detection of longitudinally polarised W boson production at the Large Hadron Collider is an important step towards understanding how the primordial electroweak symmetry broke, giving rise to the masses of elementary particles

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Physics
10 April, 2025

Computer Security: ThisIsAVeryGoodPassword

Let’s give up the complexity rules (letters, symbols, numbers) and go for long passwords, i.e. “passphrases”, instead. Long but easy to remember

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Computing
10 April, 2025
Computing
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10 April, 2025

CERN signs a joint Statement of Intent with Canada

The Statement of Intent between CERN and Canada concerns future planning for large research infrastructure facilities, and novel and advanced techniques and tools

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At CERN
09 April, 2025

CMS finds unexpected excess of top quarks

Data from the CMS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider reveals an intriguing excess of top-quark pairs, hinting at the first observation of a composite particle with unique properties

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Physics
03 April, 2025

AEgIS transforms smartphone sensors into an antimatter camera of unprecedented resolution

The AEgIS collaboration, led by a team from the Technical University of Munich, has repurposed smartphone camera sensors to create a detector capable of imaging antiproton annihilations in real time with unprecedented resolution

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Experiments
02 April, 2025

CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep

The findings could help to explain the species’ fascinating flocking behaviour

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At CERN
01 April, 2025

CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider

Released today, a report of a study investigating the project’s feasibility will serve as input for the European Strategy for Particle Physics and be assessed by the CERN Council in the coming months

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Accelerators
31 March, 2025

Symmetry between up and down quarks is more broken than expected

Surprising results from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN show that this so-called isospin asymmetry could point to gaps in physicists’ understanding of how quarks and gluons combine

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Physics
28 March, 2025

CERN community: Join our spring scavenger hunt to win chocolate

Celebrate the start of spring by exploring CERN’s biodiversity online, with the chance to win two CAGI Choco Passes

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At CERN
27 March, 2025

A trailblazer at 90

Find out how CERN is celebrating the 90th birthday of medical physics pioneer Ugo Amaldi and how you can be involved

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At CERN
27 March, 2025
At CERN
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27 March, 2025