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On his first trip to CERN since sharing the Nobel prize in physics last year with Peter Higgs, François Englert talks Higgs bosons and supersymmetry
Watch François Englert explain the equations for the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism that gives particles mass, with the help of a blackboard
The ASACUSA experiment at CERN has succeeded for the first time in producing a beam of antihydrogen atoms
Fifty years ago, two physicists independently proposed the existence of the subatomic particles known as quarks
Nobel prize laureate Kostya Novoselov of the University of Manchester will talk about graphene today at 4.30pm CET. Watch the webcast
The Fundamental Physics Foundation recognized Russian theorist Slava Rychkov for breathing new life into conformal field theory