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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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07 May, 2013
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07 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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30 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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24 April, 2013

Find a Higgs boson in LHC public data

LHC experiments release a scattering of Higgs-candidate data to the public

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12 April, 2013
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12 April, 2013

AMS experiment measures antimatter excess in space

The international team running the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) today announced the first results in its search for dark matter

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03 April, 2013

ATRAP: Never a dull moment for the antiproton

The ATRAP experiment presents most precise measurement yet of the antiproton magnetic moment

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25 March, 2013

Still making tracks: Eighty years of the positron

Eighty years ago today, Physical Review published a paper by Carl Anderson announcing the discovery of the positron – the electron’s antiparticle

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15 March, 2013

New results indicate that new particle is a Higgs boson

With two and a half times more data analysed than in July last year, ATLAS and CMS find that the new particle looks more and more like a Higgs boson

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14 March, 2013

The Standard Model, set in stone

A standing stone outside the CERN Control Centre neatly sums up our understanding of the universe

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11 March, 2013
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11 March, 2013

Explain it in 60 seconds: spin

Objects as large as a planet or as small as a photon can have the property of spin. Spin is also the reason we can watch movies in 3D.

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08 March, 2013
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08 March, 2013