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The Strangeness in Quark Matter 2013 conference is taking place this week until 27 July in Birmingham, UK
On 19 July 1973, physicists working with the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN presented the first direct evidence of the weak neutral current
The LHCb Collaboration has just published an important precise measurement of the Λb beauty baryon lifetime
Viola Sordini of the Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon, France, takes us through searches for new top-quark physics at CMS
In the first year after the discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists from ATLAS and CMS have been busy studying the properties of the new particle
Join the last Hangout with CERN of this series to talk about dark matter at 5pm (CET)
The BASE experiment aims to take ultra-high precision measurements of the antiproton magnetic moment
A ground-breaking ceremony today marked the start of construction of an extension to CERN's antimatter facility
Thirty years ago this week physicists at CERN announced that they had directly observed the Z boson
In this animated lesson for TED-Ed, CERN physicists David Barney and Steven Goldfarb use the Socratic method to explain the Higgs boson
