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Fundamental Physics Prize winner to be announced today
At a ceremony in Geneva hosted by actor Morgan Freeman, the winner of the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize will be announced
The incurable attraction of physics
What happens when a love of CERN and literature meet?
Get connected: Consolidating LHC splices
Watch Jean-Phillipe Tock of the Technology department explain how CERN technicians are upgrading interconnections on the Large Hadron Collider
£1 million Engineering prize honours web pioneers
The inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering went to five engineers whose work led to the internet and the World Wide Web
Still making tracks: Eighty years of the positron
Eighty years ago today, Physical Review published a paper by Carl Anderson announcing the discovery of the positron – the electron’s antiparticle
New results indicate that new particle is a Higgs boson
With two and a half times more data analysed than in July last year, ATLAS and CMS find that the new particle looks more and more like a Higgs boson
ATLAS releases animated particle plots
The ATLAS collaboration has just released four animations showing how signals of new particles can emerge from LHC collision data
LHCb studies particle tipping the matter-antimatter scales
The LHCb experiment at CERN reports precise new measurements—but leaves open the question of why our matter-dominated universe exists
Explain it in 60 seconds: spin
Objects as large as a planet or as small as a photon can have the property of spin. Spin is also the reason we can watch movies in 3D.
A question of spin for the new boson
Physicists speaking today at the Moriond conference say that the new particle discovered at CERN last year is looking more and more like a Higgs boson