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May 17, 2013 06:45 PM ET // Ian O'Neill
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has recreated the world's tiniest droplets of a primordial state of matter that last existed moments after the Big Bang, some 13.82 billion years ago. Continue reading →
Apr 26, 2013 06:43 PM ET // Ian O'Neill
How the modern universe is primarily composed of matter and not antimatter has foxed astrophysicists for decades, but a result from an LHC experiment has uncovered a new clue behind the matter-antimatter asymmetry mystery. Continue reading →
Jan 5, 2010 05:28 PM ET // Jennifer Ouellette
Just when the media hysteria over doomsday scenarios relating to the Large Hadron Collider has died down, along comes a visually stunning short film from L Studio called Rift that explores just what such a scenario might look like. It's described as "a surreal interpretation of Pandora's ...
Nov 19, 2012 11:14 AM ET // Jennifer Ouellette
Fortunately, the LHC doomsday hysteria has been soundly debunked... BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ZOMBIES?
Feb 18, 2012 12:30 AM ET // Ian O'Neill
It may not be the long-awaited news about a Higgs boson discovery, but an "interesting" announcement will soon come from scientists analyzing data from the Tevatron particle accelerator.
Nov 2, 2011 07:19 PM ET // Ian O'Neill
Those pesky physicists are at it again; they want to build a laser so powerful that it will literally rip spacetime apart.
May 31, 2010 05:46 AM ET // Jennifer Ouellette
Did you miss the big news from Fermilab last week? It seems that a bunch of proton-anti-proton collisions exhibit a slight asymmetry in the number of muons produced compared to anti-muons.
Sep 5, 2012 01:09 AM ET // Jennifer Ouellette
Completed just in time for the annual CERN Hardronic Festival, physicist Piotr Traczyk has created a guitar in the image of a giant LHC detector.
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