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Hyperfast Shock Waves from a Supernova Heat Atoms to Blazing-Hot Temperatures

By Adam Mann published

Taking the temperature of a star bomb.

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CERN announces plans to build a particle accelerator that's four times larger than the Large Hadron Collider.

Physicists Want to Build an Even More Powerful Atom Smasher at CERN

By Yasemin Saplakoglu published

The search for the universe's hidden particles continues

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Conceptual art showing a neutrino.

Why Physicists Are Hunting the Strangest of the Ghost Particles

By Paul Sutter published

These tiny subatomic particles, showering down from the depths of space, continue to surprise (and annoy) physicists chasing them.

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Artist's impression of an electron.

What a Tiny Electron Reveals About the Structure of the Universe

By Alexey Petrov Professor of Physics published

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One of the biggest achievements of the Large Hadron Collider was the discovery of the Higgs boson particle. Here, an artist’s conception of the Higgs field, which permeates the universe; when fundamentally particles interact with this field, they are give

In 10 Years, the Large Hadron Collider Was a Smash — with More Discoveries to Come

By Don Lincoln published

Here's what the world's most powerful atom smasher has accomplished in the past 10 years and the fascinating physics it could still reveal.

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The world's largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, forms a 17-mile-long (27 kilometers) ring under the French-Swiss border.

Humanity's Largest Atom Smasher Takes a Pause, Will Wake Up Again in 2021

By Rafi Letzter published

Particles: Breathe easy. Scientists at the world's largest particle collider have no plans to smash you together until spring 2021.

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What Do Shrink-Wrapped Thanksgiving Turkeys and the Higgs Boson Have in Common?

By Catherine Meyers published

Both can be made using the power of particle accelerators.

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Physicists Model Electrons in Unprecedented Detail — Spoiler Alert: They're Round

By Mindy Weisberger published

Electrons are extremely round, and some physicists will not be pleased about it.

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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman speaks at the panel discussion “Pioneers in Science” at the World Science Festival on May 29, 2008, in New York City.

Physicist Who Coined 'God Particle' Dies. And a Great Voice for Science Is Stilled.

By Don Lincoln published

It is a sad "day" in science. Dr. Leon Lederman has passed away at the age of 96.

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Atom Smasher Detects Hints of New Unstable Particle

By Yasemin Saplakoglu published

The world's largest atom smasher has identified two totally new particles.

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