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How do scientists get lead into the LHC?

01/28/25

Sarah Charley

Once a year, the Large Hadron Collider smashes lead ions. But how do scientists get a heavy metal into a particle accelerator?

04/25/19

Building a particle physics laboratory requires more than physicists.

04/23/19

Can a theory that isn’t completely testable still be useful to physics?

04/18/19

Scientists think that, under some circumstances, dark matter could generate powerful enough gravitational waves for equipment like LIGO to detect.

04/16/19

One of the latest discoveries from the LHC takes the properties of photons beyond what your electrodynamics teacher will tell you in class.

04/11/19

A re-examination of a particle discovered in 2015 has scientists debating its true identity.

04/10/19

The image reveals the black hole at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster.

04/09/19

Some theorists have taken to designing their own experiments to broaden the search for dark matter.

04/02/19

Meet three scientists connected by the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-PhD Bridge Program.