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Exotic pentaquark particle found at CERN's Large Hadron Collider

19 July 2023

A new type of particle called the strange pentaquark has been found using the Large Hadron Collider. The particle could help researchers catalogue the states of exotic matter and figure out how fundamental particles stick together


The ATLAS detector at the LHC

CERN measurement casts doubt on shocking W boson result

25 March 2023

A 2022 measurement of the mass of the W boson threatened to upend particle physics as we know it, but new results from CERN indicate the standard model was right all along


New Scientist 5 best long reads 2022

Read New Scientist’s 5 best long reads of 2022 for free

25 December 2022

To celebrate the end of the year, our editors have picked New Scientist’s very best features of 2022. And as a gift from us to you, they are all free to read until 1 January


Carlo Rovelli at Cornilia Parker exhibition

Carlo Rovelli on the bizarre world of relational quantum mechanics

10 October 2022

Physicist Carlo Rovelli explains the strange principles of relational quantum mechanics - which says objects don't exist in their own right - and how it could unlock major progress in fundamental physics


2022 preview: Large Hadron Collider will reach for the edge of physics

2022 preview: Large Hadron Collider will reach for the edge of physics

29 December 2021

The Large Hadron Collider has been in a coincidental lockdown during the pan-demic for planned up-grades, but it will soon be back online and hunting for new physics


Collisions recorded by the CMS detector

Large Hadron Collider sticks with reels of tape for vast storage needs

2 September 2021

The physicists at CERN still rely on tape for the long-term storage of data from the LHC, because it is more reliable and cheaper than hard discs or flash storage


LHCb

Has the Large Hadron Collider finally challenged the laws of physics?

24 March 2021

The LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has seen "tantalising hints" of physics beyond our standard understanding of the universe, but will the results stand up?


Antimatter

Antimatter

25 March 2020

The world we live in is overwhelmingly made up of particles of matter. But many of these particles have an antimatter equivalent: a particle identical in every respect, but with an opposite charge.


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Sixty years ago the world’s largest particle accelerator switched on

12 February 2020

When CERN’s Proton Synchrotron switched on 60 years ago it ushered in a new era for particle physics


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


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