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CERN Unveils Plans for the 100-km Future Circular Collider
Dwarfs LHC in Comparison CERN has been planning their next generation collider for years. Now they have finally unveiled the plans for the Future Circular Collider (FCC). A massive 100-km (62-miles) long construction which dwarfs the massive Large Hadron Collider in comparison.If the LHC is capable of 14 TeV and…
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CERN to Build Larger Hadron Collider
The European Organization for Nuclear Research – known as CERN – has announced plans to build an even bigger Large Hadron Collider. The LHC 2.0 – or Larger Hadron Collider, if you will – has entered the planning stage and could measure up to four times the length of its predecessor. What is…
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Large Hadron Collider Discovers Five New Particles
In the eight years since it began operating, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland has changed the landscape of particle physics. The LHC has already proven the existence of the fabled Higgs boson – long dubbed the “God particle” – and the creation of a miniature black…
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Switzerland’s Large Hadron Collider Felt New Zealand Earthquake
New Zealand was hit by a devastating earthquake this morning (14th November, around Midnight local time), which left at least two people dead and injured many more. The quake, which was of a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter Scale, hit New Zealand’s South Island between the cities of Christchurch…
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The First Public Website Celebrates 25th Birthday
Yesterday, we reached a big landmark in the history of the world wide web, the 25th birthday of the first public website to appear online. The site first came online on the 6th of August 1991, and unlike many websites which have come and gone, this one can still be…
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Large Hadron Collider Taken Offline by Weasel!
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator and now this vast and complex piece of scientific equipment has been forced to shut down due to a weasel. Unfortunately for the weasel, it didn’t survive its encounter with the LHC as it interfered with one…
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CERN Releases 300TB of LHC Data to the World
Do you remember the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) run by CERN? The device that people feared would create a black hole? In a move that’s rarely done, the organisation has now released terabytes of data onto the web for everyone to use. The large release is explained by Kati Lassila-Perini, a…
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Large Hadron Collider Detects Boson Particle Heavier than Higgs
Experiments conducted by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) over the past three years may have detected a new elementary boson particle that is denser than the famed Higgs boson. CMS and ATLAS physicists working at the LHC at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland, recorded a pair of photons during a…
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The Large Hadron Collider Is Back Online and Even More Powerful
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is back online and firing test collision-free proton beams after being offline for the last two years while it was being upgraded. Over the next few months, the LHC will be going through tests and will get back to smashing protons. The upgrade has given the…
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Large Hadron Collider Scientists Hope to Find Parallel Universe this Week
The Large Hadron Collider, also known as the ‘atom smasher’, at the CERN centre in Switzerland will be fired up to its highest energy levels ever in a bid to detect, or even create, miniature black holes. If the scientists are successful in their experiments then a completely new universe…
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Seagate Collaborates With CERN Openlab To Develop Kinetic Storage Platform
The European Organization for Nuclear Reasearch, CERN, produces a massive amount of data to be analyzed, but also stored, a thing that’s becoming an increasing problem with the 2-3 petabytes of information it produces on a monthly basis. The Large Hadron Collider has generated over 100 petabytes of data to…
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Large Hadron Collider Startup Has Begun, More Experiments Coming in 2015
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the world’s biggest and most powerful particle accelerator, and in just a few months time it’s going to be more powerful than ever before. Having discovered the Higgs particle in 2012, the subatomic particle which helps explain why things in our universe…
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Nobel Prize In Physics For Higgs Boson Scientists
One of the greatest scientific experiments to have ever been undertaken has captured the imagination of millions around the world over the last few decades, the search for the Higgs Boson (often wrongly referred to as the God Particle). This ranged from people who wanted a deeper understanding of how…
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CERN Commemorate 20 Years Of The WWW.
CERN has been at the forefront of technology an innovation for decades and it was 20 years ago this week that they laid the foundations for the world wide web as we know it. CERN had a major part in devising the fundamental principles and rules the govern how the…
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