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Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC) launches new strategy to guide research priorities over next decade
The BASE collaboration breaks its own precision measurement record of antiproton’s magnetic moment
Art McDonald spoke at CERN on the science of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) and SNOLAB
CERN scientists welcomed the LIGO/Virgo gravitational waves community to look for synergies for future technologies
With the connection between ELENA and GBAR already in place, the commissioning of the decelerator with antiprotons is about to begin
David Reitze, Director of LIGO, will speak at CERN on how the observation of gravitational waves changes our understanding of the universe
An animation made with TED-Ed to explain what dark matter is and how CERN is looking for it
With the LHC now back smashing protons together at an energy of 13 TeV, what exotic beasts do physicists hope to find?
