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Replacement of the heart of the CMS experiment - the pixel detector, Part2 Date: 07-03-2017 This week, one of the Large Hadron Collider?s experiments gets a ?heart transplant?. --- Physicists and engineers are replacing the heart of the CMS experiment - the pixel #detector. This will improve CMS?s ability to make precise measurements on aspects of the Standard Model, including the properties of the #HiggsBoson. The #LHC and its experiments are currently preparing to wake up this spring, when the accelerator will begin to collide particles once more at close to the speed of light.

Collision review: How CERN's stellar secrets became sci-fi gold

25 January 2023

Margaret Drabble, Luan Goldie, Steven Moffat and Stephen Baxter are among the top writers in Collision, an anthology that transmutes CERN's elusive research into science fiction

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The Terraformers review: What do we owe the animals in our care?

4 January 2023

Annalee Newitz's new novel examines the dark side of "uplifting" animals to a state of self-awareness – and asks whose intelligence is being used as the template, finds Sally Adee

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The best popular science books out in 2023

28 December 2022

Discover a quantum world of numbers, the amazing new science of the human electrome and long views of Earth and its wonders in this look at the best non-fiction coming this year

Don’t Miss: The way of water, first of four sequels to Avatar

7 December 2022

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Don’t miss: Strange World, animated sci-fi with Jake Gyllenhaal

16 November 2022

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Don't Miss: Take part in a sci-fi adventure at London's Science Museum

28 September 2022

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Two provocative new novels inject some fantasy into the sci-fi outlook

21 September 2022

Ling Ma's Bliss Montage and Christopher Priest's Expect Me Tomorrow use fantasy to address real issues. Will this perspective energise people to do something about the future, asks Sally Adee

Jupiter from Europa. Computer artwork of a view towards Jupiter and its moons, across the surface of Europa as it might have looked four billion years ago. Europa is the fourth largest of the moons that orbit Jupiter. It is believed to be composed of silicate rocks with a layer of water ice covering the entire surface. It may contain more water than all of Earth's oceans combined but its distance from its sun meant that there wasn't enough heat to prevent it from freezing over.

11 of the best science fiction books for holiday reading

20 July 2022

Eyes of the Void, Sea of Tranquility and The Memory Librarian are among our top sci-fi novels to read this holiday

FF7MXH SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, 1939. /nBasil Rathbone as Dr. Frankenstein, Boris Karloff as the Monster, and Bela Lugosi assisting.

The gruesome science behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

27 October 2021

Sharon Ruston's new book, The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein, explains how Mary Shelley drew on science as much as imagination to create her masterpiece