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This 17-mile machine might be powerful enough to spawn a black hole

Seventeen miles of underground tunnel, thousands of superconducting magnets, and protons whipped to a fraction below light ...
Interesting Engineering

How ALICE reverse-engineered the formation of light nuclei

CERN's ALICE experiment has resolved the puzzle of deuteron formation, showing that most deuterons form via resonance-driven ...
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The Large Hadron Collider gets reset and refreshed each year – a CERN physicist explains how the team uses subatomic splashes to restart the experiments

Particles rush through a long tunnel in the Large Hadron Collider. Maximilien Brice/CERN, CC BY-SA When you push “start” on your microwave or computer, the device flips right on – but major physics ...

The ultra-cold temperatures needed for epic nuclear science

One of the world's most sophisticated scientific facilities is turning to ultra-low temperatures to try and unravel hidden secrets of our Universe.
Inverse

How the new Large Hadron Collider experiments could change physics forever

After a three-year-long nap, the world’s largest particle collider is awake and ready to help physicists probe the very edge of science itself, including the possible existence of a mysterious fifth ...
Symmetry Magazine

LHC experiments see four top quarks

The ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a process 4,000 times rarer than the production of Higgs bosons. The ATLAS and CMS experiments have successfully detected the production of a quartet of top ...
Astronomy

How to reboot the Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its associated experiments undergo an annual, multi-week reset and calibration procedure following a winter hibernation period, essential for accurate data ...
Symmetry Magazine

Catching neutrinos at the LHC

After the successful initiation of two new detectors, scientists have begun to envision an expanded suite of neutrino experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. CERN physicist Jamie Boyd enters a ...

To make sense of cosmic rays, CERN team tracks a fragile nucleus

CERN's ALICE collaboration reveals how fragile deuterons survive high-energy collisions, impacting models of cosmic rays and ...
El Adelantado de Segovia

At CERN, the Large Hadron Collider manages to turn lead into gold and revives alchemy as a byproduct of modern physics

The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient physics at the ...
The Conversation

Explainer: how does an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider work?

Gavin Hesketh receives funding from The Royal Society and STFC. It’s not every day my Twitter feed is full of people talking about flat-tops, squeezing and injections, but then Wednesday 3 June was ...
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The Large Hadron Collider gets reset and refreshed each year – a CERN physicist explains how the team uses subatomic splashes to restart the experiments

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Particles rush through a long tunnel in the Large Hadron Collider. Maximilien Brice/CERN, CC BY-SA When you push “start” on your ...