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On the 5th anniversary of the Higgs discovery announcement, we will publish your best Higgs stories
Great manoeuvres have been undertaken by two neutrino detectors at CERN: ICARUS and Baby MIND
Data-taking has started again at the LHC: the experiments are continuing their exploration of physics at the unprecedented energy of 13 TeV.
New projects will be installed and commissioned at ATLAS and CMS to detect photon - photon collisions before the LHC restarts in May this year
Three decades since the first ultra-relativistic collisions were produced at CERN, the field of heavy-ion physics is still a hot topic
We are now being taken into the complex realm of higher-order calculations, with an explosion of activity in recent months
The crab cavities, a key component for the HL-LHC luminosity increase, show remarkable first test results
A first glimpse at the winter conferences of what the LHC’s extraordinary performance in 2016 means for physics
What is the effect of gravity on antimatter? A new experiment at CERN is preparing to join the quest to find the answer to this question in physics
The GBAR experiment will create antihydrogen ions at rest to study the action of gravity upon antimatter
