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LHC scientists find relics of early universe living on in particle spins

07/22/25

Sarah Charley

Scientists on the ATLAS experiment explored the polarization of W bosons to test the Higgs mechanism and gain a deeper understanding of the first moments after the Big Bang.

12/13/16

Science with sprinkles

Holiday guests will gravitate toward these physics cookies.

12/09/16

SESAME to open in 2017

The first synchrotron radiation source in the Middle East is running tests before its planned 2017 start.

12/06/16

Deep learning takes on physics

Can the same type of technology Facebook uses to recognize faces also recognize particles?

12/02/16

Viewing our turbulent universe

Construction has begun for the CTA, a discovery machine that will study the highest energy objects and events across the entire sky.

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11/29/16

Hacking for humanity

THE Port humanitarian hackathon at CERN brings people from multiple industries together to make the world a better place.

11/17/16

Q&A: What more can we learn about the Higgs?

Four physicists discuss Higgs boson research since the discovery.

Scientists walking up stairs to cube floating in sky "the future of scientists computing"

11/15/16

What to do with the data?

Physicists and scientific computing experts prepare for an onslaught of petabytes.

Detectives looking for superhero dark matter man

11/08/16

The origins of dark matter

Theorists think dark matter was forged in the hot aftermath of the Big Bang.

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