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The CMS collaboration have measured the decay of the Higgs boson to pairs of bottom quarks and to pairs of tau leptons
The Langton Star Centre at the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in the UK has just joined the MoEDAL experiment
The ATLAS experiment at CERN has found evidence for the Higgs boson decaying to fermions: two tau particles, to be precise
The ATLAS experiment at CERN has found evidence for the Higgs boson decaying to two tau particles
CMS is taking its first steps in making up to half of its data accessible to the public
Former ATLAS Experiment spokesperson, Fabiola Gianotti, is among the 26 scientists appointed to the UN Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board
There's more to CERN than the Large Hadron Collider. Check out what some of the non-LHC experiments have been getting up to this year
The AMS-02 experiment on the International Space Station is performing a long-duration study of cosmic nuclei
The CLOUD experiment reports a major advance towards solving a long-standing enigma in climate science: how do aerosols form in the atmosphere?
