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News and comment on the world's most ambitious scientific experiment: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European laboratory for particle physics near Geneva
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Check your privilege with an antimatter beam
1 Mar 2014: Jon Butterworth: The CERN ASACUSA experiment has made an antimatter beam. It will not be used as a disintegrating death ray, but to study symmetries and invariants. This is much more interesting, and at the heart of how science tells us about our place in the universe
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26 May 2013: Jeff Forshaw: we may be a step closer to solving one of particle physics' deepest mysteries
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30 Apr 2013:
Open thread: Cern has brought back the first ever webpage in its 1992 state. Share your memories of the first time you used the internet
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3 Feb 2013: Athene Donald: Future discoveries are more likely to be made by scientists sharing ideas than a lone genius
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8 Jul 2012:
Robin McKie: It will take more than this major scientific breakthrough to secure the continued quest for the cosmos's secrets
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6 Jul 2012: Jonathan Jones: Framing the debate: It is a vindication of decades of theory and research, of modern science itself. So of course we want to see a picture of the boson
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6 Sep 2014:
Jon Butterworth: A short film on the ups, but mainly downs, of a difficult search.
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7 Aug 2014:
Jon Butterworth: It is the holiday season, when many scientists head off around the world to exotic locations, to give talks at conferences, to install and maintain their experiments, and, occasionally, to relax. So here are some of my favourite recent and not-so-recent physics-related snaps
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4 Aug 2014:
Jon Butterworth: The Large Hadron Collider was guaranteed to change physics forever. A recently published paper studies the rare types of particle-scattering underlying that claim
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28 Jul 2014:
The British physicist Jon Butterworth discusses his new book Smashing Physics, an insider's account of the discovery of the Higgs boson. Plus, the origins of life
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16 Jul 2014: Jon Butterworth: What do particle physics and medical screening have in common? And why might we want to be tested, but not hear the result?
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5 Jul 2014:
Jon Butterworth: Two years ago yesterday the discovery of a new boson - later confirmed as the Higgs - was announced at CERN, as the International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) began in Melbourne. This week, ICHEP is underway again, this time in Valencia. What's new?
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29 Jun 2014: Jon Butterworth: A visit to Liverpool and a video from the Royal Institution
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8 Jun 2014: Jon Butterworth: The mass of the Higgs boson may be telling us something profound and puzzling about the future of the universe
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6 Jun 2014:
A guest post from Alex Brown to advertise an unlikely physics/comedy crossover at CERN
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1 Jun 2014: Jon Butterworth: Einstein's general relativity, and quantum field theory in the Standard Model of particle physics, have different spheres of influence. Uniting them is one of the big challenges of physics. But at an everyday level, they are influenced by spheres in the same way
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24 May 2014: Jon Butterworth: Brout & Englert; Higgs; Hagen, Guralnik & Kibble. All came up with the same great idea independently. This also happened to me and Stephen Marsden
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2 May 2014:
Jon Butterworth's vivid account of life on the Cern project is the work of an important scholar and natural populariser of science. By Graham Farmelo
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21 Apr 2014: Jon Butterworth: When is gold not gold? Or a waterfall a waterfall? Some holiday ramblings
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13 Apr 2014: Jon Butterworth: The strong force binds quarks together to form hadrons. Until last Monday, only two types of hadron were known, but the LHCb experiment at CERN has just proved there is a third way
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13 Apr 2014:
Particle Fever is a gripping insider account of the world's biggest scientific experiment. But it's also a drama about understanding the universe, director Mark Levinson tells Tim Lewis
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