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What Is A Higgs Boson?
PP: I worked for a number of years on helping to construct and commission the CMS (Compact Muon Sol…
Dina Spector
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Here's what scientists really wanted to call the world's most famous particle
In addition to the irrelevant tie to religion, the nickname doesn't do anything to help explain wha…
Kelly Dickerson
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This is Neil deGrasse Tyson's favorite science joke
By mid-summer the LHC should be at max power, which is twice the power it operated at during its fi…
Jessica Orwig
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Neil deGrasse Tyson's favorite science joke will make you smarter
Just to make sure this joke is politically correct, Tyson mentioned he had tested this joke on a Je…
Jessica Orwig
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WE'VE FOUND THE GOD PARTICLE
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‘God Particle’ Could Be ‘Catastrophic’ For The Universe: Stephen Hawking
Professor Hawking wrote: “The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become megast…
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Morgan Freeman Visited The Large Hadron Collider - Where They Found The God Particle
Freeman visited the LHC before hosting the Fundamental Physics Prize ceremony in Geneva, where the …
Jennifer Welsh
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Here Are The Next Huge Mysteries That Physicists Must Solve
Second, particle physicists still don't understand anti-matter. Tara Shears, who works at CERN, exp…
Jennifer Welsh
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A second 'Big Bang' could end our universe in an instant - and it's all because of a tiny particle that controls the laws of physics
It's nothing to worry about yet. They settled on a date 10139 years from now - or 10 million trilli…
Jeremy Berke
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Here's what the world's most powerful physics lab will be looking for when it turns back on
Such was the case during the LHC's first run from 2009 through 2012, and now, after two years of he…
Jessica Orwig
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The Inventor Of The Higgs Boson Hates That We Call It 'The God Particle'
The particle, or a version of it, was discovered last spring, and the finding has been confirmed by…
Jennifer Welsh
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Everything you need to know but were too afraid to ask about the biggest machine on Earth - the newly revamped and restarted Large Hadron Collider
Physicists first proposed the idea for the LHC in the 1980s and construction was finally completed …
Kelly Dickerson
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Here's A Beautiful Visualization Of Nobel Prizes By Country Since 1901
This morning Francois Englert and Peter Higgs won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for predict…
Michael Kelley
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Peter Higgs Found Out About His Nobel Win In The Most Unusual Way
The retired professor, who does not own a cell phone, had been enjoying a meal of draft beer, soup,…
Dina Spector
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The 5 Most Important Physics Discoveries Of The Past 25 Years
Physics World reporter Tushna Commissariat told the BBC that making the list was "harder than choos…
Michael Kelley
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The most powerful atom-smasher in the world just turned back on - and it'll push the boundaries of physics even further
The massive machine will continue colliding particles to allow physicists to further investigate th…
Ali Sundermier
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Here's why supersymmetry is such a big deal for physics
Even though the standard model predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, its discovery threw a wr…
Kelly Dickerson
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The 2 most dangerous numbers in the universe could signal the end of physics
On the bright side, we're lucky that dark energy is smaller than theorists predict. If it followed …
Jessica Orwig
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Here's what happens when two proton beams collide at nearly the speed of light
The collisions are so high energy that most of the particles that erupt into existence leave a path…
Kelly Dickerson
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Scientists May Never Have Found The God Particle Without The Richest Family In Brazil
“We created the whole market,” Tadeu Carneiro, chief executive officer of Cia. Brasileira de Metalu…