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  • Hunting for dark quarks

    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

    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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  • ISOLDE peers into the world of DNA

    ISOLDE peers into the world of DNA

    Researchers at CERN’s ISOLDE facility have used an ultrasensitive variant of NMR spectroscopy to study DNA interactions

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  • Major work starts to boost the luminosity of the LHC

    The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is officially entering a new stage. Today, a ground-breaking ceremony at CERN celebrates the start of the civil-engineering work for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC): a new milestone in CERN’s history.

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  • World’s first crabbing of a proton beam

    World’s first crabbing of a proton beam

    CERN successfully tests crab cavities, a key component of the High-Luminosity LHC

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  • OPERA collaboration presents its final results on neutrino oscillations. All data publicly available on the CERN Open Data Portal

    The OPERA collaboration reports the observation of a total of 10 candidate events for a muon to tau-neutrino conversion, in what are the very final results of the experiment.

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  • Using CERN technology for medical challenges

    A healthcare kit for remote conditions and a screening system for anti-cancer pharmaceuticals are the winners of the first CERN Medtech:Hack

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  • LIVE: Inside CERN’s antimatter factory

    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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  • First LHC test collisions of 2018

    First LHC test collisions of 2018

    The Large Hadron Collider has initiated the collision of proton beams for the first time this year

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