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After an almost two-year shutdown for repairs and upgrades, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is beginning to fire back up for its next phase of probing the mysteries of physics. Its newest particle accelerator, Linac 4, completed its first test run o… Continue reading CERN’s powerful new linear accelerator fires up ahead of LHC upgrade
We’re suckers for some retro electronics here at Hackaday, so we were fascinated when Daniel Valuch wrote to us with some pictures of his findings in his CERN lab’s archive. He works on Linear Accelerator 3, which has had an extended downtime after many decades of continuous operation, for major …read more
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It’s been calculated that dark matter is around five times more common than regular matter – and yet, we still haven’t directly detected it. Many different types of experiments are trying to find it, and now CERN has joined the hunt, testing whether th… Continue reading Higgs boson examined as source of dark matter at the LHC
Particle accelerators like CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have made some groundbreaking discoveries for physics, like measuring the spectrum of antimatter or discovering the Higgs boson – but it’s hard to tell how exactly that benefits th… Continue reading The Large Hadron Collider will soon help heat nearby homes
Dark matter is a mysterious substance that seems to permeate the universe, but detecting it is tricky on account of it not interacting with regular matter very often. Scientists have a list of particles that they’re working through as possible suspects, and now that list is a little shorter. Experiments at CERN have ruled out some types of dark photons, inching us closer to finding the elusive dark matter.
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Continue Reading CERN searches for “dark photons,” light’s hypothetical cousin that could unlock dark matter
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One of the biggest mysteries of the universe is why its expansion seems to be speeding up. Physicists have attributed it to a strange force called dark energy, but exactly how it works is largely speculative. Hypothetical “chameleon” particles could be behind dark energy, and physicists at CERN have been searching for these particles streaming from the Sun. Now, the team has reported the first results of their search.
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Continue Reading Solar Chameleons: CERN’s search for dark energy particles from the Sun
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If built, the Future Circular Collider will be 10 times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider, and could discover new types of particles. Continue reading CERN’s New Collider Design Is Four Times Larger Than the LHC
After years of attempts, the particle’s most common decay pattern has finally been observed at the Large Hadron Collider. Continue reading In Major Breakthrough, Scientists Observe Higgs Boson Decay into Bottom Quarks
ProtonMail is sending a warning urging all users of the end-to-end encrypted email service to be on the lookout for phishing scams impersonating ProtonMail. “Dear ProtonMail user, over the last few days we have noticed an unusually high number of… Continue reading ProtonMail warns all users to beware of phishing scam
It’s a finding three decades in the making. Continue reading Scientists Have Measured the ‘Color’ of Antimatter for the First Time