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€1.6 billion project promises to become for nuclear physics what Cern is to particle physics Tags Issue Topic Share Related Articles Topics More from News Artist's impression of the FAIR laboratory The UK is to participate in the world's largest ...

The Public Research Centre Gabriel Lippmann, a public establishment for applied scientific research and technology transfer, has an opening for a permanent position for its Science and Analysis of Materials department (SAM) that focuses in the ...

Physicist Leo Kouwenhoven ended a 75-year hunt for the tricky Majorana fermion a particle that is its own antiparticle by creating one on a chip What is a Majorana fermion-It is named for the physicist Ettore Majorana, who found that a particle ...

Fat-bottomed nucleii could help reveal what makes the world go round -- or, more accurately, help explain the inequality between matter and antimatter in the universe and therefore why the two have not annihilated one another. Atoms are composed of ...

From New York, around Florida and up the Mississippi, all to study a subatomic particle that only lives two millionths of a second. After the discovery of the Higgs boson last summer, particle physicists are exploring new avenues to help shed light ...

Chicago-area physicists among front-runners in race to observe dark-matter particle Northwestern University physicist Eric Dahl is part of a group of physicists that has just launched an unusual new experiment in an attempt to be the first to ...

A new hunt for dark matter The project, called COUPP-60 (the Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics Dark matter is thought to make up about a quarter of the universe, yet we can't see it or touch it. Its gravitational force is ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Physicists are deadly serious people, right? Clad in long white coats, they spend their days smashing particles together in the hunt for exotic creatures like quarks and squarks, leptons and sleptons -- and the Higgs Boson At ...

Higgs Boson scientists may be just a step away from their eureka moment! Physicists have announced that the subatomic particle discovered at Cern in 2012 is looking more and more like the elusive God Particle Higgs boson which could explain why matter has ...