While the world’s most powerful particle accelerator – the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – is on a two-year hiatus for repairs and upgrade, engineers are getting ready to construct the next generation of…
The Hadron Collider was built to find the Higgs Boson but it might also help us discover better ways to treat cancer.
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The recent case of Neon Roberts and the legal dispute over his treatment for a brain tumour threw the spotlight on the potential risks of using radiotherapy to treat complex cancers in children.
Radiotherapy…
The predictions of current particle physics have been spectacularly validated.
Michael J. Linden
So, the Higgs boson …
Last week, researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) finally announced the new particle discovered last summer is indeed a Higgs boson, a particle predicted…
The Large Hadron Collider has temporarily shut down, but will return stronger than ever.
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The lord of the particle accelerator, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), went out of particle collision business for almost two years as of late last week. For particle physicists, Valentine’s Day 2013…
The Large Hadron Collider has been used to find out what matter is fundamentally made of, and how the universe was created.
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One of humanity’s eternal questions surrounds what we are fundamentally made of. Many ancient philosophies believed in a set of classical elements: from water, air, fire and earth of ancient Greeks; to…
The Higgs boson is alive with the sound of music.
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The July 4 discovery of a particle that closely resembles the Higgs boson opens a new era in science: it should help us understand some fundamental mysteries, such as how microscopic particles attain their…
Results pertaining to the Higgs boson are “consistent with its existence”.
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This expert reaction comes via the Australian Science Media Centre:
CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) has this evening announced that the long-sought Higgs boson probably exists, after…
Where one search ends, a whole lot of new searches begin.
Robbie Biller
Physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, have announced the observation of a new particle widely thought to be the elusive Higgs boson.
Announced via a live two-way video…
We got the big news earlier this week, but what did it mean?
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I can guarantee you that some time in the next two weeks, someone at a barbeque I’m attending will ask me about the Higgs boson. I don’t blame them – it’s interesting stuff – but it’s not “answer-in-30…
Another week, another rush to proclaim Einstein was wrong.
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The bartender says, “We don’t serve your kind in here”
A faster-than-light neutrino walks into a bar …
The media is champing at the bit to proclaim a discovery of faster-than-light travel by a subatomic…
Confusion and the elusive Higgs boson seem to go hand in hand.
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A recent announcement by the research director of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) indicated the Higgs boson – often referred to as the “God particle” – has been excluded at 95% confidence…
We know how to solve some big problems in physics, we just don’t have the power.
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Welcome to If I had a blank cheque … a series in which leading researchers reveal what they could (and would) do in their discipline if money were no object.
Today we hear from Dr Jonathan Carroll, Postdoctoral…
We’ve got the time, if you’ve got the theory.
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By now we’re used to the idea that the world has four dimensions: three spatial and one temporal. But what if there were a fifth dimension – what would that dimension look like, and how would it relate…
As yet we can only guess what the Higgs boson might look like.
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Theoretical physics is full of mysteries and unknowns. In the case of some particles, we can predict their existence even if we can’t find them.
Such is the status of the Higgs boson. And yet detecting…
Is the “Z-prime” lurking within a “jungle” of particles at the LHC?
Argonne National Laboratory
There’s nothing like an unexpected result to get physicists excited.
So in 2008, when some strange behaviour was detected from a rarely-produced particle known as the “top quark”, there was much interest…
Time travel has long been a staple of science fiction but the LHC might make it a reality.
Fabrice Coffrini/AFP
Switzerland’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can be called a time machine in one sense: it enables us to examine conditions as they were during the universe’s early stages.
But is the 27km-long particle…
