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A feast of physics at the winter conferences

A first glimpse at the winter conferences of what the LHC’s extraordinary performance in 2016 means for physics

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Physics
28 March, 2017
Physics
Opinion
28 March, 2017

Charting the future of CERN

CERN's Director General on why the coming years will be crucial for the long-term future of particle physics.

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Physics
14 March, 2016
Physics
Opinion
14 March, 2016

Detection of Gravitational Waves

The announcement by LIGO and VIRGO collaborations of direct detection of gravitational waves confirms one of Einstein's major predictions

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Physics
10 February, 2016
Physics
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10 February, 2016

A new energy frontier for heavy ions

This week’s heavy-ion run at the LHC breaks a symbolic barrier, says CERN accelerator physicist John Jowett

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Physics
24 November, 2015
Physics
Opinion
24 November, 2015

Breaking the Rules

This week it's the turn of heavy-ion physics to take the spotlight

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Physics
05 October, 2015
Physics
Opinion
05 October, 2015

Seeing is believing

Lucio Rossi reflects on how particle accelerators extend our sense of sight

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Physics
24 February, 2015
Physics
Opinion
24 February, 2015

Who invented quarks?

The official story is demonstrably wrong, says CERN theorist Álvaro de Rújula

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Physics
30 May, 2014
Physics
Opinion
30 May, 2014

A busy week for science

Rolf Heuer on a week that included BICEP2's announcement on gravitational waves, Moriond, joint Tevatron-LHC results and a new director for TRIUMF

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Physics
21 March, 2014
Physics
Opinion
21 March, 2014

A Nobel prize for particle physics

Wherever you are in the global particle physics community, you too can feel a sense of pride in the achievement of a Nobel for Higgs and Englert

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Physics
14 October, 2013
Physics
Opinion
14 October, 2013