They're about to start smashing things up at the Large Hadron Collider, the huge particle accelerator outside Geneva. Just to play it safe, I'm going to remain over here in North America, keeping a large chunk of the planet between me and this ...
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European Collider Begins Its Subatomic Exploration
PASADENA, Calif. After 16 years and $10 billion and a long morning of electrical groaning and sweating there was joy in the meadows and tunnels of the Swiss-French countryside Tuesday: the worlds biggest physics machine, the ...
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In Europe, science collides with the bottom line
For years, science research in Europe has been somewhat of a sacred cow - an area in which the zeal to pioneer knowledge for commercial and academic gain spawned jointly funded mega-projects. Indeed, science officials here say they see the ...
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A Costly Quest for the Dark Heart of the Cosmos
Sitting and being fussed over by technicians in a clean room at the Kennedy Space Center in preparation for a February launching and looking for all the world like a giant corrugated rain barrel is an eight-ton assemblage of magnets, ...
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Remembering Fermilab s Tevatron Particle Accelerator
It was turned on in 1983 to the sound of protesters who worried that its high-energy collisions between protons and antiprotons could bring about the end of the world or perhaps the whole universe. ...
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Texas House OKs 85-mph speed limit, would be nation s highest
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Rocker Sammy Hagar, who once sang "I Can't Drive 55," might want to move to Texas. The California-born singer may be able to drive 85 miles per hour in the Lone Star State if a measure approved by the Texas House becomes law.
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U.S. team sets end-September target in Higgs chase
1 of 2. Scientists look at pictures of the first successful collisions at full power at the control room of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin, near Geneva, March 30, 2010.
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Higgs boson may be a mirage, scientists hint
A graphic showing a collision at full power is pictured at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experience control room of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin, near Geneva March 30, ...
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Faster than light particles threaten Einstein
The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) tunnel, located at the CERN particle research centre near Geneva, is seen in this undated handout photograph. An international team of scientists said on Thursday they had recorded sub-atomic particles ...
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Neutrino Finding Is Repeated in Second Experiment, Opera Scientists Say
Two months after scientists reported that they had clocked subatomic particles known as neutrinos going faster than the speed of light, to the astonishment and vocal disbelief of most of the worlds physicists, ...
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Physicists Will Have to Wait a Little Longer for Higgs Boson
Two teams of scientists sifting debris from high-energy proton collisions in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research outside Geneva, said Tuesday that they had recorded tantalizing hints ...
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Was Einstein wrong - or was the cable loose?
GENEVA / CHICAGO (Reuters) - The world of science was upended last year when an experiment appeared to show one of Einstein's fundamental theories was wrong - but now the lab behind it says the result could have been caused by a loose cable.
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Einstein Proved Right in Retest of Neutrinos Speed
European researchers said Friday they had measured again the speed of a subatomic particle that a September experiment suggested traveled faster than the speed of light, violating Einsteins special theory of relativity, which underlies ...
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CERN revs up hopes for smashing year for physics
GENEVA (Reuters) - Scientists came closer than ever to witnessing "Big Bang"-style conditions on Thursday after revving up the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN research centre to smash sub-atomic particles together faster and harder than ...
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American Scientists Fear Losing Edge in Physics
And it underscored the case, long urged by American astronomers, for a NASA mission to measure dark energy to determine, for example, whether the cosmos would expand forever or whether, perhaps, ...
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New Data on Higgs Boson Is Shrouded in Secrecy at CERN
What they are looking for is the beginning to the end of the longest and most expensive manhunt in the history of physics, one that has involved several generations of larger and larger particle accelerators: the spoor of a hypothetical particle ...
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Physicists Find Particle That Could Be the Higgs Boson
Like Omar Sharif materializing out of the shimmering desert as a man on a camel in Lawrence of Arabia, the elusive boson has been coming slowly into view since last winter, as the first signals of its existence grew until they practically ...
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The Higgs Boson, a Blip That Speaks of Our Place in the Universe
ASPEN, Colo. Last week, physicists around the world were glued to computers at very odd hours (I was at a 1 a.m. physics party here with a large projection screen and dozens of colleagues) to watch live as scientists at the Large Hadron ...
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