A breakthrough in timekeeping: Progress toward a nuclear clock
Physicists have made a breakthrough in the development of a nuclear clock, a new kind of ultraprecise clock that could ...
Heavy-ion run at the LHC begins
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is like an immensely powerful kitchen, designed to cook up some of the rarest and hottest ...
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Physicists May Have Figured Out How to Safely Transport Antimatter
As a result, antimatter usually has a fleeting existence, meaning it's hard to make and even harder to study. CERN's ...
Want to unravel the secrets of the big bang, dark matter and the universe? This is what CERN uses to store more than one exabyte of data and beyond
“We continue to develop higher capacities, up to 30TB and beyond, as HDDs are and will remain essential for storing the ...
CERN’s Bold Quest To Discover New Physics Through Higgs Bosons
Since the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, researchers have been studying Higgs bosons and searching for signs of physics ...
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Faster Cooling To Help Unlock Secrets Of Antimatter
Barbara Latacz, a member of the BASE team at CERN, adjusting the BASE experiment's cryostat. The new device can cool an ...
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CERN scientists to explore interactions between Higgs bosons to unlock new physics
Discovered at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, the elusive Higgs boson particle has been at the centre stage for ...
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New giant particle collider 'right option for science': next CERN chief
The next head of Europe's CERN physics laboratory said Thursday that he favored moving forward with plans for a giant ...
Theoretical predictions provide a first peek at nuclear shape transitions
Based on an experiment at CERN, a collaboration led by the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, can predict hitherto unchartered changes in the shape of nuclei.
Scientists Are Building the World’s Most Accurate Clock. It Could Be a Turning Point for Humanity.
The most precise clocks in the world will lose only one second every 300 billion years—and someday they might fit in your ...
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Antimatter could travel by truck, a test with protons shows
A special particle trap designed to fit in a truck let researchers haul 70 protons across the CERN campus. Antiprotons may be next.
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Uncovering the early history of the universe, particle by particle
The early universe started with what we call The Big Bang, which was a very hot environment which then expanded and cooled.