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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


Lyra (Dafne Keen) and Will (Amir Wilson) explore a strange new world

His Dark Materials review: Season 2 is spine-chillingly excellent

16 November 2020

An exceptional cast continues to make His Dark Materials a brilliant show. The introduction of a character who studies the secrets of the cosmos is the cherry on top, says Emily Wilson


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Why films like Avengers: Endgame can get away with time travel tricks

15 May 2019

In his monthly film column, Simon Ings finds that invoking the quantum world is a great way out for Avengers-style franchises when they want to mess with time


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Must we topple Einstein to let physics leap forward again?

16 April 2019

Einstein’s genius casts a long shadow over fundamental physics. The documentary Chasing Einstein wonders if reverence for the past is blocking breakthroughs


Natasha Lyonne

Russian Doll: To escape the multiverse, think like Einstein

27 February 2019

In Netflix's sci-fi smash Russian Doll, Nadia uses multiverse magic to break out of an endless loop of death – a reminder that it pays to remember your physics


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Physicist Jim Al-Khalili: Why my debut sci-fi novel is true to science

27 February 2019

Physicist and BBC presenter Jim Al-Khalili reveals how he kept his novel Sunfall real – while still being a nail-biting page-turner


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