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CERN congratulates Englert and Higgs on Nobel in physics

The 2013 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for their theoretical work on the Higgs boson

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08 October, 2013

The centenary of Bruno Pontecorvo

Far-reaching insights of Italian physicist Bruno Pontecorvo had a big impact on particle physics

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22 August, 2013
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22 August, 2013

Join the dots to measure antimatter

Help the AEgIS experiment at CERN to work out how antimatter is affected by gravity. Just join the dots!

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08 August, 2013
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08 August, 2013

Strangeness in Quark Matter 2013

The Strangeness in Quark Matter 2013 conference is taking place this week until 27 July in Birmingham, UK

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23 July, 2013
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23 July, 2013

Forty years of neutral currents

On 19 July 1973, physicists working with the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN presented the first direct evidence of the weak neutral current

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19 July, 2013
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19 July, 2013

A mystery of the beauty baryon lifetime resolved

The LHCb Collaboration has just published an important precise measurement of the Λb beauty baryon lifetime

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15 July, 2013

Atomic flashback: A century of the Bohr model

In July 1913, Niels Bohr published the first of a series of three papers introducing his model of the atom

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12 July, 2013

Searches for new physics with top quarks in CMS

Viola Sordini of the Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon, France, takes us through searches for new top-quark physics at CMS

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09 July, 2013

The Higgs boson: One year on

In the first year after the discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists from ATLAS and CMS have been busy studying the properties of the new particle

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04 July, 2013
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04 July, 2013

Join last hangout of series (on the dark side)

Join the last Hangout with CERN of this series to talk about dark matter at 5pm (CET)

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27 June, 2013