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11.03.2025
On 14 September, 2015, the international LIGO/Virgo collaboration detected the very first gravitational wave signal, a tiny distortion of spacetime predicted by Einstein, in this case produced by the...
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02.28.2024
Fifty years ago, a French team was behind a discovery that helped develop the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
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04.19.2020
After ten years in operation, the CERN particle accelerator located on the border between France and Switzerland has reshaped the physics of elementary particles. It will restart in 2021 with even...
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10.15.2015
The LHC, which has led to the discovery of the Higgs boson, is the largest scientific facility ever built by man. It is the latest in a long line of monumental instruments built over the past 60...