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'I like a challenge': CERN physicist on the draw of weird antimatter

'I like a challenge': CERN physicist on the draw of weird antimatter

27 November 2019

CERN physicist Jeffrey Hangst spends his days making antimatter. He explains why the world is safe in his hands – and why he plays in a band called Diracula
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Inside the hunt for the universe's missing ingredient – dark matter

14 November 2018

Dark matter fills much of the universe, but we don't know what it is. A new detector hopes finding a theoretical particle called an axion will shed some light

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