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The Large Hadron Collider/ATLAS at CERN (Photo: CERN)

Short Circuit Snags Giant Atom Smasher Restart

March 25, 2015

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has run into a bit of a snag in its plans to have its upgraded Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator — up and running by this week for its second three-year run. Officials are suggesting that the delay in getting […]

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September 10, 2013

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June 21, 2013

Scientists Confirm Higgs Boson Discovery

March 15, 2013

Scientists working with the world’s largest atom smasher say the mystery particle they found last summer was a Higgs boson, which is believed to give mass to everything in the universe. However, while the physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) confirm the particle is a Higgs boson, it doesn’t appear to have […]

Does ‘God Particle’ Spell End of the Universe?

February 20, 2013

Last summer, when scientists finally cornered the elusive building block of the universe known as the Higgs boson, they apparently also discovered something else: that the universe’s days might be numbered. “It may be that the universe we live in is inherently unstable,” said Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist from the U.S. Department of Energy’s […]

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January 25, 2013

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