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ICTP director Fernando Quevedo talks to Antonella Del Rosso about the contribution that theorists make to society and why it deserves support
The ATLAS measurement compared data of 2.76 TeV lead-ion collisions taken in 2011 with proton-proton data from a dedicated run of the LHC in 2013
Without a doubt, it is a Higgs boson, but is it the Higgs boson of the Standard Model? Run 2 of the LHC find out, says theorist John Ellis
A paper by John Bell published on 4 November 1964 laid the foundations for the modern field of quantum-information science
TEDed and CERN physicist Chloé Malbrunot team up to test the principle of universality of free fall for antimatter
AMS physicist Veronica Bindi narrates a quirky explanation of particles from outer space
Latest measurements from the AMS experiment unveil new territories in the flux of cosmic rays
The Antiproton Decelerator (AD) prepares to deliver its first beam of antiprotons to the experiments