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Even the most boring collisions at the Large Hadron Collider tell us something – this time about cosmic rays

At the CERN Large Hadron Collider we spend a lot of time and effort trying to filter out the common collisions, so we can focus on the rare events. But even the supposedly dull stuff is helping to resolve some … Continue reading

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The Higgs boson does a new trick (probably)

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Prompt Photons

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Nobel Prizes and Science: Theory, experiment, chicken, egg

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