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First-ever collisions of oxygen at the Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gets a breath of fresh air as it collides beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first ...
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World’s largest atom smasher collides protons and oxygen for the first time in history
The world’s largest atom smasher has conducted its first-ever collisions between protons and oxygen ions, as part of an ...
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Large Hadron Couture Collider
Iris van Herpen has an on-going collaboration with CERN. The Dutch fashion designer’s latest project, with photographer Nick ...
Exoplanet hunters may be misrepresenting the likelihood of their findings
There's nothing to get a scientist's heart pumping like a good, old-fashioned statistical debate. When it comes to topics ...
Is THIS how the world will end? The universe has a 'self-destruct button' that could WIPE OUT life in an instant, scientists warn
Experts believe the universe may have a built-in 'self-destruct button' called false vacuum decay which could destroy the ...
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Venice event brings future of particle physics into focus
This week, more than 600 scientists met in Venice, Italy, to debate the future direction of European particle physics in the global context. The Open Symposium is an important step in the ongoing ...
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For Your Consideration
Entanglement ~ A short science fiction story of a not-so improbable future Author’s Note: In a “New York Times” survey, when asked if they could travel back in time, 42% of the respondents said that ...