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Open collaboration makes CERN great – let’s do it for climate change

Open collaboration makes CERN great – let’s do it for climate change

20 November 2019

The model of collaboration between scientists across national borders has proved its worth at the CERN particle physics lab. It would also work to fight climate change

Fabiola Gianotti

CERN boss: Big physics may be in a funk, but we need it more than ever

20 November 2019

The particle physics discoveries have dried up but in politically uncertain times CERN's cooperative model is an example to the world, says its chief Fabiola Gianotti

National Ignition Facility Laser System

Blasting lead with 160 lasers makes it incredibly strong, then explode

19 November 2019

When lead is quickly brought to extremely high pressures using 160 laser beams, it suddenly becomes 250 times stronger – and then it explodes

NA64 experiment at CERN

Physicists see new hints of a fifth force of nature hidden in helium

19 November 2019

A 2016 experiment pointed towards the existence of an undiscovered force of nature. Now researchers say they've seen a second sign

Above, an artist's impression shows a primordial quasar as it might have been, surrounded by sheets of gas, dust, stars and early star clusters. Exacting observations of three distant quasars now indicate emission of very specific colors of the element iron. These Hubble Space Telescope observations, which bolster recent results from the WMAP mission, indicate that a whole complete cycle of stars was born, created this iron, and died within the first few hundred million years of the universe.

Massive simulation of the universe shows how galaxies form and die

18 November 2019

A sophisticated computer simulation of the universe, approximately 1 billion light years across, is modelling tens of thousands of galaxies

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