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Endeavour launches with particle physics payload

...shuttle Endeavour launched on Monday on its final mission, carrying a $2bn particle physics experiment to the International Space Station. Photo credit: Nasa Carrying a... Read more

17 May, 2011 by William Harwood

Nasa approves Endeavour shuttle launch for 29 April

...The flight will deliver supplies, spare parts and a $2bn (£1.2bn) particle physics detector to the International Space Station (ISS), while astronauts will conduct... Read more

20 April, 2011 by William Harwood

CERN ramps up LHC energy for Higgs boson search

...luminosity, often used to describe the amount of data accumulated by a particle physics experiment. "If we have that much data, we'll either exclude... Read more

13 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft releases Daytona data analytics tool

...generate massive data in their work in areas such as environmental science, particle physics, astronomy and other disciplines. Analysing that information becomes ever more cumbersome... Read more

19 July, 2011 by Jay Greene

Cern gets ready to hunt for antimatter in space

...Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a module that will go into space to conduct particle physics experiments, is set to leave Cern for the Kennedy Space Centre... Read more

20 August, 2010 by Tom Espiner

US Higgs boson data backs CERN's findings so far

Data released by Fermilab in the US appears to correlate with that of CERN, as the hunt for the elusive Higgs boson particle continues to narrow Read more

7 March, 2012 by Martin LaMonica

Traces of Higgs boson found at CERN

Physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider have found 'tantalising' inconclusive hints of the elusive Higgs boson, a hypothetical elementary particle that could explain how the universe has mass Read more

13 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Cern taps home PCs for virtual atom smashing

The LHC@home 2.0 platform uses virtual machines on volunteers' computers to simulate atomic particle collisions in the Large Hadron Collider and lets people contribute to physics research Read more

9 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner
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Behind the scenes at particle physics labs

...The winners in the Global Particle Physics Photowalk, which saw more than 200 photographers go behind the scenes... Read more

20 October, 2010 by Staff
SciDefs - <endeca_term>Particle Physics</endeca_term> 2.2

SciDefs - Particle Physics 2.2

...you can! This app gives definitions on the most common terms in particle physics, so you can get an overall idea of what it is... Read more

4 March, 2011
SciDefs HD - <endeca_term>Particle Physics</endeca_term> 2.0

SciDefs HD - Particle Physics 2.0

...you can! This app gives definitions on the most common terms in particle physics, so you can get an overall idea of what it is... Read more

5 February, 2011
SciDefs Lite - <endeca_term>Particle Physics</endeca_term> (iAd Supported) 1.2

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...you can! This app gives definitions on the most common terms in particle physics, so you can get an overall idea of what it is... Read more

8 October, 2010
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Particle Physics 1.0

...learn the terminology. This holds true to the extremely exciting field of Particle Physics. Modern particle physics research is focused on subatomic particles, including atomic... Read more

26 August, 2010

Space spectrometer arrives at ISS

A particle physics experiment designed to search for antimatter has arrived at the international... Read more

18 May, 2011

Cern physicists trap antimatter for 16 minutes

Scientists at the European particle physics lab will use trapping techniques to study the structure of anti... Read more

6 June, 2011 by Tom Espiner

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