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CERN starting the LHC accelerator up again to solve new mysteries

The 27 km long subterranean particle accelerator, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN is ready…

Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti is next CERN Director-General

At its 173rd Closed Session today, CERN Council selected the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti…

CERN turns 60 and celebrates peaceful collaboration for science

Founded in 1954, CERN is today the largest particle physics laboratory in the world and a prime…

Fabiola Gianotti awarded the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour

The LHC accelerator is running on ‘woman power’, such is a saying CERN. One of the great top female…

Niels Bohr Institute part of the research project IceCube at the South Pole

The Niels Bohr Institute is now officially admitted as a full member of the IceCube collaboration.…

Nobel Prize for the Higgs mechanism

François Englert and Peter W. Higgs have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics “for the…

CERN experiments may reveal new state of matter for the 'glue particles', the gluons

At the LHC accelerator at CERN, collisions between protons and lead nuclei were established for the…

Breakthrough – the Higgs has been found

So there it is – the Higgs, the mysterious particle that causes all things to have a mass. After 45…