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Will Antimatter Obey Gravity’s Pull?

May 1, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter What goes up must always come down, right? Well, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) wants to test if that principle applies to antimatter. Remove this ad

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The Face of Creation

January 3, 2013

The latest autotuned installment in John D. Boswell’s Symphony of Science series waxes melodic about the particle-smashing science being done with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, in particular its search for the Higgs boson, a.k.a. the… ok, ok, I won’t say it… “We can recreate the conditions that were present just after the beginning [...]

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Stephen Hawking and CERN LHC Team Each Win $3 Million Prize

December 11, 2012

Stephen Hawking visited the Large Hadron Collider’s underground tunnel at Europe’s CERN particle physics research center in 2006. Hawking and seven CERN researchers receiving multimillion-dollar prizes from the Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation. Image credit: CERN Two $3,000,000 special physics prizes have been awarded to Stephen Hawking and to seven scientists who led the effort to [...]

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Physicists Closing in on Understanding the Primordial Universe

August 14, 2012

Photo of the ALICE detector at CERN. Photo courtesy of CERN. Slamming barely nothing together is bringing scientists ever-closer to understanding the weird states of matter present just milliseconds after the creation of the Universe in the Big Bang. This is according to physicists from CERN and Brookhaven National Laboratory, presenting their latest findings at [...]

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Ping-Pong Particles: What the Higgs Does

July 4, 2012

Unless you’ve been hiding under a chondrite for the past week you’ve heard the news from CERN regarding the discovery of a new particle that exhibits “Higgs-like” qualities. Particle physics isn’t the easiest discipline to wrap one’s head around, and while we’ve recently shared some simplified explanations of what exactly a Higgs boson is, well…here’s [...]

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