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How a ‘Beauty’ Particle Is Challenging Our Understanding of Physics
Preliminary results from the Large Hadron Collider keep showing a weird unexplained anomaly in an ultra-rare particle decay process.
Antimatter Physicists Designed a Ventilator for Coronavirus Patients
Particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collider are joining the fight against Covid-19 with a new, low-cost design for scarce life-saving medical equipment.
CERN’s New Collider Design Is Four Times Larger Than the LHC
If built, the Future Circular Collider will be 10 times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider, and could discover new types of particles.
Top CERN Scientist Suspended for Presentation That Argued There Is No Sexism in Physics
CERN suspended theorist Alessandro Strumia on Monday after he gave a presentation at a conference about gender in high energy physics that argued "physics is not sexist against women."
In Major Breakthrough, Scientists Observe Higgs Boson Decay into Bottom Quarks
After years of attempts, the particle’s most common decay pattern has finally been observed at the Large Hadron Collider.
Scientists Have Measured the 'Color' of Antimatter for the First Time
It’s a finding three decades in the making.
With a Recycled LHC Magnet, the Axion Solar Telescope Hunts for Ghost Photons
CERN's axion hunt drills down toward New Physics
Physicist Mary Gaillard Has Spent Over Three Decades Fighting For Women in Science
She was Berkeley's first tenured female physics professor, and she's still fighting for equality.
Meet the Artist Animating the Kaleidoscopic Beauty of Quantum Physics
Markos Kay's new short film features CERN-approved subatomic visualizations.
Why the Higgs Boson Found at the Large Hadron Collider Could Be an ‘Impostor’
An Iowa physicist intends to find out.
Mind-Boggling 3D Fractals Form an Alien Structure in This Short Video
Gaze at massive alien particle accelerator in Julius Horsthuis’s latest fractal short.
Here's How You Make High Fashion Inspired by Magnetic Fields
Fashion design has never looked so magnetic.