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07/03/23
CERN Courier

CERN’s neutrino odyssey

Fifty years ago, neutrino beams traversing the Gargamelle bubble chamber revealed the existence of the neutral current and put the electroweak Standard Model on solid ground. 

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The freckled universe

05/06/25
Madeleine O’Keefe

There’s a new class of cosmic object in town. And it might just overturn our understanding of black holes and galaxy evolution.

Model of Multi Messenger Event
10/01/19

Chasing gravitational waves

When LIGO and Virgo detected the echoes that likely came from a collision between a black hole and a neutron star, dozens of physicists began a hunt for the signal’s electromagnetic counterpart. 

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09/12/19

Q&A: Becky Thompson

Meet the comic-creating, triathlete, Hufflepuff physicist who’s also the new head of Fermilab’s Office of Education and Public Outreach.

Illustration of Francesca Ricci-Tam holding wires with detector equipment in background
09/10/19

Finding happiness in hardware

Working on hardware doesn’t come easily to all physicists, but Francesca Ricci-Tam has learned that what matters most is a willingness to put in the practice.

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