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An international team at the ISOLDE radioactive-beam facility at CERN has shown that some atomic nuclei can assume asymmetric, "pear" shapes
How ALICE finds out how much of a heavy ion takes part in a collision
With the long shutdown under way, the ALICE collaboration is preparing for the next 10 years of operation
The LHCb collaboration has just submitted for publication a paper outlining the first observation of CP violation in the decays of B0s meson
The LHCb collaboration has recently observed matter-antimatter asymmetries in the decays of the B<sup>0</sup><sub>s</sub> meson
There will be no rest at Point 5, the site of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector, during the long shutdown of the LHC
An art installation at CMS Point 5 transforms physicists into the particles they study
The experiments release combined spin measurements for the Higgs boson for the first time
At a seminar at CERN today at 5pm CET, the AMS collaboration will announce its first physics results. Watch the webcast here