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The Large Hadron Collider gets reset and refreshed each year – a CERN physicist explains how the team uses subatomic splashes to restart the experiments

When you push “start” on your microwave or computer, the device flips right on – but major physics experiments like the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known ...
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Large Hadron Collider needed a new database system to sustain its petabyte-hungry experiments

The big picture: The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) hosts one of the most ambitious engineering and scientific endeavors ever undertaken by humans. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ...
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Large Hadron Collider experiments detect the first "man-made" neutrinos

In context: Neutrinos are elementary particles that do not interact with regular matter. They are electrically neutral and possess the smallest rest mass among other elementary particles (excluding ...
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Visually striking science experiments at school can be fun, inspiring and safe – banning is not the answer

To a young mind, science can be magical. Perhaps you remember a visually striking or seemingly inexplicable scientific demonstration from your own youth? A liquid spontaneously and unexpectedly ...