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Journal Club – This new Chi b (3P) thingy

December 31, 2011

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter According to Wikipedia, a Journal Club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles in the scientific literature. Since this is Universe Today if we occasionally stray into critically evaluating each other’s critical evaluations, that’s OK [...]

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Large Hadron Collider Finishes 2011 Proton Run

November 1, 2011

The world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator has been busy. At 5:15 p.m. on October 30, 2011, the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland reached the end of its current proton run. It came after 180 consecutive days of operation and four hundred trillion proton collisions. For the second year, the LHC team has gone [...]

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Astronomy Without A Telescope – Why The LHC Won’t Destroy The Earth

August 27, 2011

Surprisingly, rumors still persist in some corners of the Internet that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is going to destroy the Earth – even though nearly three years have passed since it was first turned on. This may be because it is yet to be ramped up to full power in 2014 – although it [...]

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Hunt for Dark Matter Closes in at the LHC

January 26, 2011

From an Imperial College London press release: Physicists say they are closer than ever to finding the source of the Universe’s mysterious dark matter, following a better than expected year of research at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) particle detector, part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva. Remove this ad

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CERN Particle Accelerator

December 2, 2010

What if it were possible to observe the fundamental building blocks of matter, the foundation on which the universe is based? Not too big a challenge, all you would need is a massive particle accelerator, an underground facility that large enough to cross a border between two countries, and the ability to accelerate particles to [...]

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