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Congratulations to SuperKEKB for “first turns"

The High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Japan celebrates first turns and successful storage of beams in the SuperKEKB collider

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Physics
02 March, 2016

Why bother with theoretical physics?

In the second feature of our In Theory series we explore what it takes to make someone a theoretical physicist

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Physics
02 March, 2016
Physics
Feature
02 March, 2016

Welcome to the Theory corridor

A photo essay introducing the Theory department at CERN and some of its theoreticians

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Physics
24 February, 2016
Physics
Feature
24 February, 2016

CERN congratulates the discoverers of gravitational waves

Congratulations to LIGO and Virgo for the first ever direct detection of gravitational waves

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Physics
11 February, 2016

Detection of Gravitational Waves

The announcement by LIGO and VIRGO collaborations of direct detection of gravitational waves confirms one of Einstein's major predictions

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Physics
10 February, 2016
Physics
Opinion
10 February, 2016

ALPHA experiment shows antihydrogen charge is neutral

ALPHA shows the most accurate measurement yet of the electric charge of antihydrogen atoms in a new Nature paper

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Physics
21 January, 2016

A new energy frontier for heavy ions

This week’s heavy-ion run at the LHC breaks a symbolic barrier, says CERN accelerator physicist John Jowett

Opinion
Physics
24 November, 2015
Physics
Opinion
24 November, 2015

Neutrinos: after the Nobel Prize, the hunt continues

The 2015 Nobel Prize for physics rewards the long quest for understanding of the elusive neutrino

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Physics
06 October, 2015

Breaking the Rules

This week it's the turn of heavy-ion physics to take the spotlight

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Physics
05 October, 2015
Physics
Opinion
05 October, 2015

Antihydrogen at CERN: 20 years and going strong

In September 1995 physicists at CERN synthesised the first antihydrogen atoms, paving the way for today’s growing antimatter research

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Physics
24 September, 2015