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World's biggest particle collider back in action

The world's biggest particle collider is back in operation after a two-year upgrade, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said.
News • 05 Apr 15

Higgs and Englert win Nobel Prize for physics

Britain's Peter Higgs and Belgium's Francois Englert have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for physics for their work in developing a theory of the standard model of particle physics.
News • 08 Oct 13

Strong evidence Higgs boson found in LHC

Analysis of the tracks of an elementary particle found in the Large Hadron Collider last year "strongly indicates" that it is the long-sought Higgs boson, the CERN physics research centre said today.
News • 14 Mar 13

World's top scientists in Dublin for ESOF 2012

More than 500 of the world's top scientists are in the city for the five-day Euroscience Open Forum event, which is Europe's biggest general science conference.
News • 12 Jul 12

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