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:: 23 January, 2008
The most extensive and expensive scientific instrument in history is due to start working this summer at Cern, the European particle physics...
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:: 22 January, 2008
In the early hours of the morning the final element of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS)detector began the descent into its underground experimental...
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:: 19 January, 2008
They call it the terascale. It is the realm of physics that comes into view when two elementary particles smash together with a combined energy of...
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:: 14 January, 2008
Isaac Newton, besides being the founder of modern physics, was also master of Britain’s mint. That is a precedent which many British physicists...
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:: 14 January, 2008
As a result of Congressional budget cuts for the 2008 fiscal year, the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) has announced the anticipated layoffs of...
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:: 10 January, 2008
Big science has taken a hit in recent budget cuts both in the United States, where significant lay-offs at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, are now...
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:: 29 November, 2007
Wendy Mao uses gem-quality diamonds as vise grips to put materials under severe pressure while exposed to brilliant x-ray beams.
In this way...
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:: 26 November, 2007
After years of planning and hard work involving teams from every corner of the lab, SLAC's venerable linac has undergone the most radical set of...
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:: 19 November, 2007
The last interconnection arc sector 1-2 was conducted Wednesday, Nov. 7, marking the end of the massive project to connect the LHC (Large Hadron...
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:: 19 November, 2007
For many of us, it was Spock who knew the secrets of the universe and the mysteries of the galaxies.
With last week's announcement that Fermilab...
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:: 19 November, 2007
40 years ago, an unknown physicist in Edinburgh, Scotland, came up with a theory of how the universe holds together - sparking a multibillion...
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:: 15 November, 2007
A €1.2-billion (US$1.7-billion) particle accelerator to be built in Germany has been given the final go-ahead. The Facility for Antiproton and Ion...
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:: 15 November, 2007
What's the best way to dig a 72 km-long tunnel complex and install it with 2,000 cryomodules, over 13,000 magnets and approximately 540 high-level...
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:: 13 November, 2007
12 November 2007. One of the most fragile detectors for the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment has been successfully installed in its...
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:: 13 November, 2007
An international team of researchers at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Tsukuba, Japan, the "Belle collaboration"*1,...
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:: 08 November, 2007
Construction of a cooling system for the world's biggest science experiment that produces temperatures colder than outer space was finished...
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:: 08 November, 2007
Mark off another key milestone in the construction of Europe's massive Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator. In an underground ceremony...
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:: 07 November, 2007
Scientists from around the world are gathered in the German city of Darmstadt on Wednesday to kick off the construction of a new €1.2 billion...
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:: 07 November, 2007
At a brief ceremony deep under the French countryside today, CERN Director General Robert Aymar sealed the last interconnect in the world’s largest...
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:: 07 November, 2007
The European Organization for Nuclear Research is the world's largest particle physics laboratory, situated just northwest of Geneva on the border...
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